Example sentences of "it [verb] [prep] [art] last " in BNC.

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1 It insists to the last on the existence and activities of opponents to Judas Maccabaeus , including the former High Priest Alcimus .
2 The route became circular in 1906 , going to Bolton Abbey and back , and in 1915 it changed for the last time .
3 This is the anti-socialist , specifically anti-Marxist bent of the elitist theory as it unfolds in the last decade of the nineteenth century ’ ( Meisel , 1958 , p. 10 ) .
4 In a business where fees are usually paid on a success only , rather than an hourly , basis , this may come a bit hard to people who have worked hard for two or three months on a deal only to see it fall at the last hurdle .
5 Now that the work has been completed I hope the church will continue to attract pilgrims to the shrine of St Melangell , as it has for the last eight hundred years .
6 ‘ How well this social organization serves the purposes of those who seek to impose it depends in the last resort upon the conceptions in the minds of the men and women they recruit for these purposes .
7 So we get to the anniversary of the policy , not the claim , the policy , I just coincide my illness with an anniversary , but on the anniversary of the policy , we 'll look at the policy , where inflation , what 's it done over the last twelve months , let's say it 's gone up by five per cent .
8 Johnston , saddling his 48th winner of the year , should now go on to achieve his maiden half century , and does not mind whether it happens in the last four days of turf racing or on the all-weather .
9 With its tirades against the ‘ unnatural alliance ’ between capitalism and Bolshevism , it appealed to the last remaining hope — the belief in the miracle of a split between the eastern and western allies and a new alliance between the Reich and the West against Bolshevism .
10 And when it came to the last garment , I pulled that off as well , glad as children always are , and I hope always will to be undressed and free , and stood in what Janet calls ‘ birthday clothes ’ .
11 It was this fact which led Lord Lyons to comment that the government did not lead so much as follow when it came to the last stages of the crisis .
12 It arrived in the last post . ’
13 When it gets to the last line the beam shoots back to the top .
14 It has an overdraft of just over £1m , and its finance committee was told this week that , after hoarding trade-union and individual affiliations since 1987 , the party would have some £6m to spend in a May or June election — still much less than the Tories , but twice what it spent in the last election .
15 In the final collected edn. of SB it appears as the last of the seven items grouped under the title ‘ Our Parish ’ to form the first section of the book .
16 Yeah , if it expires like the last one , that 's okay , just chuck it on the fire .
17 It worked for the last World Cup , when the FA paid a £30,000-a-man bonus for reaching the semi-finals .
18 It tells of the last penguin to leave the North Pole , left behind because he is afraid of swimming .
19 Will my hon. Friend remind Opposition Members that under this Government manufacturing output has increased by a quarter whereas it fell under the last Labour Government ?
20 We led by two shots going into the last round , and when it blew on the last day , I did n't think anybody could beat Trevino .
21 Does not that show that the Government could best serve the CBI by running the economy in such a way that inflation is kept down and does not reach the levels that it reached under the last Labour Government ?
22 It follows from the last paragraph that there are at least two different ways of studying a community 's use of language and attitudes towards it .
23 As I understand it the Cleveland structure plan proposes the same number of dwellings for erm its next period which happens to be fourteen years , as it did for the last fourteen of the of the previous structure plan , fifteen thousand seven hundred .
24 In fact , that is just what it did at the last election .
25 Yes that would include integrated adequately funded trans public transport system as it did in the last .
26 Jean-Marie Le Pen 's extreme right party is now expected to get only 12-13 per cent of the vote , slightly down from its 13.6 per cent in the regional elections but up on the 9.6 per cent it won in the last general election five years ago .
27 ‘ When it come to the last quarter of an hour , you want to have that last a long while ! ’
28 The Gould machine was set like clockwork to continue ticking as methodically for the next two years as it had for the last eight .
29 It dates from the last years of Egyptian independence and was still being built during the lifetime of Christ .
30 It runs until the last day of this month .
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