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

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1 Alan Calladine , the Midland Railway Trust 's Development officer , commented : ‘ There is no doubt that this machine is one of the more important items in our collection , as it represents the last stages of steam locomotive production from the Derby Locomotive Works .
2 It became a last stand , all very dramatic .
3 It became the last stop for taking on provisions for the large convoys of merchant and naval ships crossing the Atlantic .
4 ‘ But how does it catch the last fish without losing those its already caught ? ’
5 Wherever the Labour party detects that there might be someone who could pay more under the rates , it wants every last penny out of that person .
6 On single bed work , where a needle is tucking , it holds the last knitted stitch , plus collecting a loop of yarn every time , until these are all knitted off together when the needle is programmed next to knit .
7 it was like Windows One that was it said the last Windows version that would run on Two Eight Sixes .
8 It says the last programme , so is it ?
9 Set in a WWI officer 's prisoner of war camp it shows the last veneers of a chivalrous , civilised Europe being ripped away by the black talons of mechanised war .
10 Next in the score comes the Dialogue between Coridon and Mopsa ; this is in Q1692 , but there , curiously , it lacks the last four lines of its text :
11 IT SEEMS the last Christmas of the decade will be more green than white .
12 Thus was opened the Grand Union , aptly named , for it forged the last link of the ambitious grand design to connect the East Midlands coalfields to London , a total distance of 168 miles .
13 The party has been placed in the impossible position of choosing a leader to fight the next election when it has not yet had the opportunity to discuss why it lost the last one .
14 Getting through it took the last of his energy .
15 Butt up a whole panel against the skirting and mark off where it overlaps the last fixed panels .
16 It proved the last straw for John Titford ; ill enough , no doubt , without the need to struggle against a winter to end all winters , his weary body gave up the ghost .
17 Basel takes place right at the end of the season after the New York contemporary art auctions , allowing it to have the last word on the state of the market .
18 It gave a last deep cry , its teeth closed on the empty air , and it fell to the ground .
19 It won the last election by default .
20 If a holder , nonetheless , transfers his private key , the carrier will be responsible only to the party to whom it issued the last valid private key .
21 and it does the last thing you 've done times the
22 In our garden is a wooden seat that serves the same function as my former porch in France : it catches the last sunlight .
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