Example sentences of "it [prep] [art] last [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Curtis , fully aware that this was the last night of the Prophet 's current crusade , had anticipated that he might choose it for a last hunting expedition , before retreating to his lair upstate . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The bantering tone remained in Surere 's voice but he added edge to it for the last word or two . |
| 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 | And on sex he notes : ‘ The older women are best because they always think they may be doing it for the last time . ’ |
| 7 | I went back to my office and shut myself into it for the last time . |
| 8 | She stood up and looked round the room as though she were leaving it for the last time . |
| 9 | Perhaps they saw it as a last call for help to come to a failing Britain . |
| 10 | I take it as a last question , comment . |
| 11 | ‘ I only use it as a last resort , when the dog is impeding my progress . |
| 12 | Tom Poole suggested it as a last resort , and Coleridge , who remembered the cottage , immediately asked him to take it for a year . |
| 13 | Certain spiders also use it as a last resort . |
| 14 | ‘ But now I only use it as a last resort . ’ |
| 15 | Gain-up does tend to make the picture look rather grainy , though , so it is best to look on it as a last resort and reserve it for those times when a grainy picture is better than no picture at all . |
| 16 | We 'll put it as the last item . |
| 17 | He did quite well out of it during the last year . |
| 18 | Hundreds of soldiers doing it after the last war — and airmen . |
| 19 | 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 ? |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | yeah , I 've seen it in the last day or two |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Have you done it in the last sort of few weeks ? |
| 25 | 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 . ’ |
| 26 | I soloed back up it in the last light , an orgy of vertical but easy bridging on huge holds . |
| 27 | 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 ! |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | ‘ There 's no doubt I had chances to nail it in the last set , but you 've got to hand it to Dennis . |
| 30 | Manager Joe Royle said : ‘ We will leave it until the last minute to give him every chance . ’ |