Example sentences of "on [prep] the last [noun] " in BNC.

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1 On about the last trip of the night-shift , around dawn , the EMU on which he was working was approaching Kirkhill , the terminal of that particular service .
2 Sterland came on for the last half-hour of this week 's 3-0 reserve team win over Manchester City at Maine Road , and yesterday declared : ‘ It went brilliantly .
3 Viola was beaming benevolently as she read on into the last column .
4 The arguments over who he should drive for went on until the last minute when it was decided that Clark should make the fateful trip to Germany .
5 Following on from the last administration , the Conservative proposals and that it would enable something like four hundred and fifty extra nursery places to be provided .
6 I said three flights that I 've been on in the last fortnight .
7 He 'd seen a bit of that kind of thing going on in the last hospital he was in .
8 What 's sort of going on since the last time I interviewed you .
9 We 've actually had a recycling paper project going on over the last couple of months , which made paper out of shredded newsprint and then made Christmas cards out of them .
10 And that things would tend to drag on to the last minute and then they would start and then it would it go forward .
11 It would have been customary to allow the animal its own head , and to hold on to the last truck , or hitch a lift by hanging onto the end .
12 THE danger of trying to limp to safety on goalless draws was graphically illustrated by Coventry 's last-gasp defeat which could have them hanging on to the last day of the season before knowing their fate .
13 Coventry slumped to a last-gasp 1–0 defeat at Notts County which could have them hanging on to the last day of the season before knowing their fate .
14 On to the last day and Nicklaus — who was putting in a charge in front of us attempting the third part of the grand slam , having won the Masters and the US Open in 1972 — and everything was going reasonably well until the 7th , the hare hole .
15 Right , let's move on to the last session , where we 're going to be looking at the rate books .
16 I smiled understanding and held on to the last wedge of the broken window , catching glimpses of the brown Yucay River snaking its way between the terraced hills .
17 Going on to the last lap Dunlop had matters well in hand but further down the field behind McCallen there was drama when Alan Patterson , who had been in third place and going well , suddenly shot through the final bend and took the wrong road for the second time today losing his chance of a place .
18 But the task of clearing hundreds of tips was too much for them to take on at the last minute .
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