Example sentences of "up [prep] the last [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the crews tied up for the last time in Southampton , watched , and waited for by families and friends they had n't seen for eight months , many of them agreed getting back to a routine , going back to work , might by tough . |
| 2 | The Queen , the unit 's colonel-in-chief , stood watching a final march past by as the corps band struck up for the last time . |
| 3 | Until the South African mines were opened up during the last decade of the nineteenth century , diamonds were obtained exclusively from alluvial deposits , often those which also produced gold . |
| 4 | Some windows were still boarded up after the last attack . |
| 5 | Earlier she had come down in this lift with Steve and now she was going up with the last person on earth she could have envisaged . |
| 6 | Whether that uncertainty affected the players can not be assessed , but this match sank below the fare served up in the last home game against Swansea , and that was bad enough . |
| 7 | The state stands for , in an abstract sense , the final repository of agreement of the people to be ruled , and therefore an ultimate legitimation , backed up in the last instance , by the state 's claim to the monopoly of legitimate use of force . |
| 8 | Some 44 per cent of the 65 advertisers interviewed saw the economy picking up in the last quarter of this year at the earliest , and a further 35 per cent did not envisage an improvement until 1993 . |
| 9 | In East Yorkshire they are glacial erratics , stones picked up in the last Ice Age , worn smooth , and deposited as the ice retreated . |
| 10 | But you 've got to make a mental leap , because I mean for the last five years , things have been pretty horrible , since eighty seven really , I mean we 've only had the pick up in the last year . |
| 11 | Since a few ladies who had been at the tea would also be at the committee meeting , and , anyway , Boyd had messed up her best black afternoon dress , she wore now a pretty gown in green wool which she had picked up in the last sale at Eaton 's . |
| 12 | The Common Good Fund and they , they had you know all I mean you know they had all feelers out for all , all the things , so there are a couple of dates which came up in the last meeting erm for further pilots and then the intention is to just go ahead from |
| 13 | Mr Mortimer popped up in the last episode of the seventh series of Rumpole as a guest at Mr Justice Oliphant 's lunch . |
| 14 | shine On ridden with breathtaking confidence by the young apprentice Kelly Connor who got up in the last stride to — ’ |
| 15 | Teeside Park , founded by the government-funded Teeside Development Corporation and borough council-funded Preston Farm and the Bowesfield industrial estates have sprung up since the last election . |
| 16 | up on the last year of the Labour Government . |
| 17 | The glorious ‘ saturated ’ sound of the VPO strings is strangely attenuated , and the build up to the last climax ( around 16′40″ ) is an unconvincingly brazen affair with too much from the timps and cymbals and not quite enough heart . |
| 18 | So there may be a sort of shame attached to being a Tory , up to the last minute , when a different instinct intervenes . |
| 19 | Truman 's victory in 1948 , like that of Edward Heath in the UK election of 1970 , and now John Major in 1992 , confounded the opinion pollsters , who , right up to the last minute , were predicting a different result . |
| 20 | I never leave a wash until it is dry , as unwanted effects can occur right up to the last minute . |
| 21 | Given these irreconcilable purposes it is Pham Van Dong and Giap , to take two symbols of Vietnamese intransigence , rather than Ho Chi Minh , who represented the reality of Franco-Vietnamese relations in the four or five months before the all-out war began in December 1946 ; even though it is tempting to consider how , up to the last minute , conflict might have been averted — or at least postponed . |
| 22 | And as they came towards the end of the day he had to do some quick thinking to find out whether he 'd have to keep the men working right up to the last minute in order to get the stint , of three-quarter of an acre 's ploughing for each man , finished . |
| 23 | Both sides fought intensive and costly campaigns and most opinion polls showed the FSLN well ahead of the UNO right up to the last minute . |
| 24 | Scribbling changes in the margin of his text right up to the last minute , Mr Clinton insisted the burden of his new taxes were spread fairly across American society . |
| 25 | Up to the last minute the enormous problems of ammunition supply to the guns had not been overcome . |
| 26 | Work is still going on in fitting out a new store right up to the last minute . |
| 27 | erm We had a big screen and the atmosphere was absolutely tremendous — right up to the last minute as you said , with three points in it , it was very tense . |
| 28 | Well , it had been , up to the last half-hour or so . |
| 29 | The press immediately took the heat off Margaret Thatcher , went for Norman Tebbit and went for Edwina Currie , and I think that was a part of the success in the build up to the last election , because at a time when the pressure really was on the Prime Minister , like it was a couple of when in the last few months of Margaret Thatcher 's leadership , that 's what happened . |
| 30 | They 're only paying from the top branch up to the last branch on the tree . |