Example sentences of "it [verb] the last [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Alan Calladine , the Midland Railway Trust 's Development officer , commented : ‘ There is no doubt that this machine is one of the more important items in our collection , as it represents the last stages of steam locomotive production from the Derby Locomotive Works . |
2 | It became the last stop for taking on provisions for the large convoys of merchant and naval ships crossing the Atlantic . |
3 | ‘ But how does it catch the last fish without losing those its already caught ? ’ |
4 | it was like Windows One that was it said the last Windows version that would run on Two Eight Sixes . |
5 | It says the last programme , so is it ? |
6 | Set in a WWI officer 's prisoner of war camp it shows the last veneers of a chivalrous , civilised Europe being ripped away by the black talons of mechanised war . |
7 | IT SEEMS the last Christmas of the decade will be more green than white . |
8 | Thus was opened the Grand Union , aptly named , for it forged the last link of the ambitious grand design to connect the East Midlands coalfields to London , a total distance of 168 miles . |
9 | It proved the last straw for John Titford ; ill enough , no doubt , without the need to struggle against a winter to end all winters , his weary body gave up the ghost . |
10 | Basel takes place right at the end of the season after the New York contemporary art auctions , allowing it to have the last word on the state of the market . |
11 | It won the last election by default . |
12 | and it does the last thing you 've done times the |
13 | In our garden is a wooden seat that serves the same function as my former porch in France : it catches the last sunlight . |