Example sentences of "on the last [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He started wearing women 's clothes , he started putting on make-up and on the last couple of times that I saw him he was pretty strange . |
| 2 | This chapter will show the principal trends in population distribution since the inter-war period , focusing particularly on the last couple of decades . |
| 3 | If you selected a word hold down the Shift key and click on the last word of the selection — similarly for paragraphs . |
| 4 | ‘ Guyana , ’ she lilted as one of the keys on her ring opened the topmost door on the last floor of the ramshackle old house . |
| 5 | On the last pages of the cube , the infant Cley had inscribed a map . |
| 6 | The one in mind had a sponsor who sells Murphy 's Irish beer and a 46-year-old Argentinian winner , Vicente Fernandez , who did a head-over-heels roll on the last green after downing a mile-long uphill putt , the longest victory shot of the year . |
| 7 | We moved on up to her tumbledown tower on the last crag of the village . |
| 8 | Let us concentrate rather on the last sentence of the paragraph quoted and work our way back through the foregoing non sequiturs . |
| 9 | Most attention concentrated on the last sentence of my statement which I had inserted just before I stood up in the House of Commons : |
| 10 | On the last sheet of paper is written ‘ Smee ’ . |
| 11 | A rubber stamp of these headings , which you can impress on the last sheet of your notes on title and each of which you then tick or mark appropriately , saves undue strain on your memory . |
| 12 | On the last day of that term , my final-year class all came up to my office to give me a ‘ thank-you ’ present . |
| 13 | Brussels : Prices tumbled on the last day of the forward account Oslo : Caution ahead of the 1990 budget clipped 3.83 points off the index to 527.08 . |
| 14 | On the last day of 1921 the Party Central Committee appointed Feliks Dzerzhinsky , the head of the Cheka and Commissar for Transport , to the commission for the dispatch of food supplies and grain seed from Siberia and the Ukraine . |
| 15 | ‘ I could not help recalling , ’ Sir Maurice Hankey , the Cabinet Secretary , wrote in his diary in September , ‘ that on the last day of Parliament Mr. Baldwin had walked across the yard outside [ the House of Commons ] and had said ‘ I will do everything I can to help the Government in making economies , but I will not enter a Coalition Government . ' |
| 16 | Tony Visconti : ‘ When it was finished , on the last day of the last mix , I remember telling David , ‘ I 've had it . |
| 17 | ‘ If you do n't know what you 'd choose to do on the last day of your life , you do n't know what 's really important to you . |
| 18 | ‘ If you 're so sure , what would you do on the last day of your life ? ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I can tell you what I 'd do on the last day of my life , ’ he said . |
| 20 | No one really wants to know about him , and he knows why he agreed to do the film , why on the last day of shooting he dismissed it as a ‘ stinker ’ , what he thinks of it now . |
| 21 | On the last day of the 1988 American presidential election Dukakis went on a whirlwind tour that must have been dreamed up by a desperate team . |
| 22 | On the last day of term , I had met up with my son 's headmaster . |
| 23 | In most cases rooms must be vacated by 12 noon on the last day of your holiday . |
| 24 | On the last day of your holiday it is standard practice to be asked to check out of your room in the morning . |
| 25 | On 27 May the Cagnes police issued Modigliani a safe conduct c/o Osterlind and he travelled by train to Paris on the last day of the month . |
| 26 | On the last day of shooting , Nicholson chirped up : ‘ Look , everybody else in town had shot part of this picture . |
| 27 | On the last day of the Marui Pipeline Masters , Bruce Carver and Maya went up in a helicopter to take some aerial shots . |
| 28 | Ms Donovan worked for a local authority and , during the course of disciplinary proceedings , was told that she would be permitted to terminate her employment on the last day of the year if she so wished . |
| 29 | On the last day of 1796 Coleridge , Sara and the baby finally left Bristol on their journey west , a wagon following after them loaded high with ‘ boxes of Books , and Chests of Drawers , & Kitchen-Furniture , & Chairs , and our Bed and Bed-Linen , & c & c ’ . |
| 30 | On the last day of October , I returned to Bristol for my day visit , this time with no fraudulent feeling . |