Example sentences of "and [verb] [prep] the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not surprising , therefore , that recent Marxist explanations of power in capitalist society have tried to explain the more pluralistic modern forms of representation and policy-making in terms , not of some devious desire by the ruling class and their friends but as a limited freedom for actors and forces opposed to capitalism , which is constrained and limited in the last instance by the economic structure of the capitalist mode of production and its ideological hegemony . |
| 2 | ‘ Just talk to them , find out what they 've seen and heard over the last couple of weeks , ’ the DI said . |
| 3 | He could n't go back now , not after all the planning and scheming of the last few months . |
| 4 | Discovered and excavated in the last sixty years , they have often been described . |
| 5 | It has a symbolic broom and drives behind the last man on the road , ready to sweep up those who abandon the race . |
| 6 | Millions Of Honey opened Saturday night with a sparky set of robust , melodic guitar songs that have toughened and matured over the last year of line-up shuffles , and should justly set them up for a spot of national service . |
| 7 | Freud moved from Vienna in 1938 , when the Nazis took over , and lived for the last year of his life in London . |
| 8 | We deserved our lead and to lose in the last minute was terrible . ’ |
| 9 | Defending her life and being jolted and shaken over the last few days had left her exhausted . |
| 10 | Utilitarianism has been both vigorously defended and attacked in the last few decades . |
| 11 | But within a few weeks of William 's appointment she had applied to three different London boroughs for a job — any job — in social work , taken the first one she 'd been offered , fixed up the flat , put the cottage on the market , found a school for Edwin , and fled from the last five years of her life with almost indecent haste . |
| 12 | Where the terrain increases in difficulty , or the whole party is forced onto the same flank , the leader climber can place sling and nut runners , which are clipped back down the rope and collected by the last member . |
| 13 | He looked round him , upon the desolation of the field between Bryn Glas and the river , littered and faintly heaving still with bodies and cast arms , and groaning with the last convulsions of struggle and pain . |
| 14 | I was looking down at my plate , licking my finger and picking off the last few crumbs , transferring them to my mouth . |
| 15 | She had n't done that she said since she was my age and came to the last page of Le Rouge et le Noir . |
| 16 | He three-putted both the fourth and 12th holes , had only two birdies on his card , and came to the last hole needing a four for a 73 for a ten under par total of 278 . |
| 17 | IT is a great privilege and pleasure for me to honour my old friend and colleague John Gillam , with whom I have worked and argued over the last thirty years . |
| 18 | We 've noticed that the numbers of young homeless people who are coming to see us have risen and risen over the last few months and few years . |
| 19 | The multinationals have moved to other countries because of the civil war and according to the last report , in May 1983 , there were only four factories still operating in the multinational industrial parks . |
| 20 | A fitting finale — and summons to the Last Judgement , be ye Saint or Sinner . |
| 21 | This part of the country is extraordinarily rich in small sects that grew up and flourished in the last two or three centuries . |
| 22 | the date of its incorporation ) and ends on the last day of the reference period and that subsequent financial years begin with the day immediately following the end of the previous financial year and end with the last day of its next accounting reference period ‘ or on such other date not more than seven days before or after the end of that period as the directors may determine . ’ |
| 23 | Setting the briefcase back down , she dug the notes out of the pocket and turned to the last page , smiling rather nastily . |
| 24 | After assurances from US officials that the USA would continue to monitor the peace process , the FMLN demobilized its last contingent of around 2,000 combatants and turned in the last of its weapons ( including 55 surface-to-air missiles ) to the UN on Dec. 14 . |
| 25 | As we have , therefore , travelled together through so many pages , let us behave to one another like fellow-travellers in a stage coach , who have passed several days in the company of each other : and who , notwithstanding any bickerings or little animosities which may have occurred on the road , generally make up at last , and mount for the last time into their vehicle with cheerfulness and good humour ; since after this one stage , it may possibly happen to us , as it commonly happens to them , never to meet more . |
| 26 | The crowd and television fans will be thirsting for Eubank to be more positive than against Tony Thornton two months ago , when he simply shouldered arms and retreated during the last two rounds before nicking the points decision . |
| 27 | Now aged 38 , Harwood has been making things , perfecting techniques and designing for the last twenty years but is barely known outside a small group of cognoscenti . |
| 28 | When , not long before his execution , he passed comment on the mass-murder of the Nazi camps , it was only to point out that there were problems in supply and control during the last days of the Third Reich . |
| 29 | To link Walker with skipper Tony Adams would also continue a partnership which has looked sound and secure in the last two England internationals . |
| 30 | ‘ I certainly felt badly in need of a rest , having trained and played for the last two to three years virtually without a break . |