Example sentences of "be [verb] [verb] the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | When a bargain has been struck the TOPIC ( " Teletext Output of Price Information on Computer " ) price displays are altered to show the last trades made . |
| 2 | The two finishing holes are designed to test the last reserves of the golfer 's confidence . |
| 3 | ‘ Rescuers are having to walk the last two or three miles carrying all their equipment . ’ |
| 4 | Whether or not you opened the discussion , you may be invited to have the last word . |
| 5 | It has been the main argument of this book , however , that this objection ought not to be allowed to have the last word . |
| 6 | Noble had been allowed to dissect the last of Kammerer 's nuptial pad specimens ( the rest had been destroyed some years earlier in a fire ) . |
| 7 | Because the market for meals is in competitive equilibrium we saw that the marginal cost curve for films also told us the marginal value of the meals being sacrificed to make the last film . |
| 8 | They believed that anything could be obtained by force and were determined to exact the last drop of blood . |
| 9 | The garden has been planned to make the last amount of work for those who maintain it : John himself ; his father , who is now 80 and can work for only short periods ; Mr Broughton , who clips the hedges , and Patricia who weeds . |
| 10 | In the final stages of the journey from river mud to glittering metal , gold is treated to remove the last stages of Garrimpo mercury , then it becomes pure , but not innocent . |
| 11 | But even if this tape is going to record the last speech of somebody famous and it did n't get and therefore they could n't record it , that is co , the consequence of a delay , you know , a fall of snow or our vehicle breaking down or something not being done , or missed some in human , some human error , it 's not our , we do n't lay , we 'll give , we 'll insure or offer transit liability on the value of the goods providing you 've got additional full transit liability with us , but we wo n't for the loss of business because you did n't get it . |
| 12 | ‘ Looks as if Dora 's going to have the last laugh , ’ said Iris . |
| 13 | CROONER Des O'Connor is expecting to have the last laugh on his critics by soaring to the top of the Christmas hit parade . |
| 14 | Never be tempted to forfeit the last two bouts of a male team match , or the last bout of a female team match if you have already seen your team take the deciding first three/two victories . |
| 15 | Everything below , we were sure , was exactly as it would have appeared in centuries past-apart from one major anachronism , a bright yellow construction crane , which was attempting to plant the last monolith in the stone circle . |
| 16 | The corpse road avoided the villages along the route for fear that the spirit of the dead should be enticed to return , a fear that in fact stemmed from Norse mythology , in which the corpse way was thought to mirror the last journey of the soul from the earth into the underworld . |
| 17 | Abruptly , all she wanted was to escape , escape that pitying , patronising gleam in his eyes , escape the mounting tension which was threatening to annihilate the last , precarious shreds of her self-control . |
| 18 | Well as usual we could n't remember the last time you came , I was trying to think the last time |
| 19 | George waved and Maxim was released to make the last few yards by himself . |