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

No	Sentence
1	Sometimes it was important to spoil oneself — Helena had written a piece on it for the last issue of Athene , explaining that when women felt the need for a little luxury they should give in to it , that pampering oneself created an inner glow which proclaimed that this was a Special Woman .
2	Yeah , and then from that they 've now got these fucking things that show the direction , the sign , the speed and oh its incredible sonar 's been going longer than radar , but only just we were the world leader 's now , I mean we cos we , cos we preserve fuel , we knew exactly , they left it for the last minute to get up there and intercept them .
3	The bantering tone remained in Surere 's voice but he added edge to it for the last word or two .
4	And on sex he notes : ‘ The older women are best because they always think they may be doing it for the last time . ’
5	And on sex he notes : ‘ The older women are best because they always think they may be doing it for the last time . ’
6	I went back to my office and shut myself into it for the last time .
7	She stood up and looked round the room as though she were leaving it for the last time .
8	We 'll put it as the last item .
9	He did quite well out of it during the last year .
10	Hundreds of soldiers doing it after the last war — and airmen .
11	If you leave it til the last minute and you question spot , you might end up in a sticky situation How many people here have failed an exam ?
12	Efforts to strengthen and improve it in the last decades of the century had only moderate success .
13	Had Louis been inclined to forget the destiny his father had mapped out for him , he would have been forcefully reminded of it in the last decade of his reign , when his chief adviser was Suger , abbot of St Denis between 1122 and 1151 , a man of humble birth consumed by a passionate devotion to the cause of monarchy in the Carolingian mould .
14	yeah , I 've seen it in the last day or two
15	Booth did it in the last minute , slipping the ball home after Lee Richardson , an outstanding performer in the Aberdeen midfield , had struck the post with a clever shot made possible when Rhodes miskicked .
16	Yes , his looked at it in the last couple of days , so he said within within another week or so he 's having the whole done with them .
17	Have you done it in the last sort of few weeks ?
18	IN A POEM called History Peter Porter piles a number of state crimes — reminiscent of those attributed to the Stasi — on top of one another in a seemingly solid pillar of evidence , only to explode it in the last line with the simple but logical detonation : ‘ Their story will not be told . ’
19	I soloed back up it in the last light , an orgy of vertical but easy bridging on huge holds .
20	Well I saw it in the last time it was in here on Central and it was n't , it did n't come on !
21	And yet another client of mine who 's a teacher , she said oh yeah she said it 's lovely , she said I suppose I ought to do the marking and all that at the beginning she said but I leave it , she said , and I sometimes do it in the last week .
22	‘ There 's no doubt I had chances to nail it in the last set , but you 've got to hand it to Dennis .
23	Manager Joe Royle said : ‘ We will leave it until the last minute to give him every chance . ’
24	‘ Could n't bear to part with it until the last minute . ’
25	And if you leave it until the last minute , so what ?
26	Only we I do n't , I do n't know about you but I do n't want to leave it until the last minute
27	But nobody , how long is it since the last time we showed them in ?
28	If you want to leave it to the last minute you can also bring your items to the Community Centre on the morning .
29	Not too long — I generally leave it to the last minute .
30	Hopes that a woman would make it to the last hurdle are receding as the Soviets have made it clear they would like the two candidates to be of the same sex .