Example sentences of "and [vb past] the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | He promptly went off at the next corner , punctured and limped the last five miles on a flat . |
| 2 | She was a devout Anabaptist and befriended James Burton , who was involved in the Rye House Plot , and gave him sanctuary , but she was betrayed and taken to London , where she was tried and became the last woman to be burnt at the stake at Tyburn on 16th October , 1685 . |
| 3 | Jed picked up his glass and swirled the last inch of beer around . |
| 4 | Since the commission was set up in the First World War they in nineteen ninety five they said it would break even for the first time and agreed the last and thirties and forty come to maturity in which incomes are expected to double by twenty , twenty two . |
| 5 | He hung up and got the last volume of the bigger directory from the rack under the table . |
| 6 | He rushed along London Street and Bridge Road so fast that he puffed and staggered the last few yards to the cottage where he lived with his parents and two younger brothers . |
| 7 | He had brooded himself into a black dwam , and when the door opened again he started violently and spilled the last of the milk on his legs . |
| 8 | The Archdeacon realised he had been carried away , cleared his throat and gulped the last of the sherry . |
| 9 | Roirbak sighed , and dropped the last piece of droid into the plastic sack he was carrying . |
| 10 | The drunk lifted his bottle and shook the last few drops into his throat . |
| 11 | It 's impossible to say which city Bashlachev belonged to because he was raised in the northern town of Cherepovets , studied at Sverdlovsk University and spent the last few years of his life wandering between Moscow , Leningrad and Siberia . |
| 12 | He retired from the imperial throne in AD 305 and spent the last nine years of his life in cultivating the soil of his native Dalmatia , constructing the city which still forms the heart of modern Split and , according to Gibbon , enjoying the ‘ most exquisite trout ’ which were bred in ‘ the little stream of the Hyader ’ ( now the Jadro ) . |
| 13 | He had his own rooms and spent the last few years of his life reading and receiving a stream of aristocratic visitors , including the princess of Wales , venturing forth occasionally for trips to the theatre organized through the actress Madge Kendal [ q.v . ] . |
| 14 | Nicholas Ridley retired from the house of commons at the last election after his outspoken remarks over Europe , he took a peerage and spent the last few months of his life in the House of Lords . |
| 15 | I worked it out , from things Barbara Coleman told me , and I hitched a lift in a car going up the valley and walked the last mile or two . |
| 16 | He came in on the Tube as usual , and walked the last quarter-mile . |
| 17 | Allen walked deftly along the rotten trunk and leapt the last eight feet to the further bank , making a scuffle in the mud where he landed . |
| 18 | I too had enormous pleasure from Ivy 's book , and loved the last line . |
| 19 | The ship rounded the point and started the last approach to Lisbon , going past the great Tower of Belem and the harbour where a hundred fishing boats made a forest of masts and spars . |
| 20 | It was regarded as a way of forcing the emergence of a new curriculum ( Jones 1989 ) and covered the last two years of compulsory secondary education and two years in FE . |
| 21 | He staggered and fell the last few feet and finally collapsed on the mud and grass of the bank . |
| 22 | Julia looked up at the cloudless sky and felt the last of the day 's sun on her face . |
| 23 | Looking back at that period , the crucial difference in Conservative politicians was between those who thought that the last twenty or thirty years had not been too bad , and who were sceptical that anything better could be achieved , and those who hoped that something better could be won and saw the last quarter of a century as a slow but steady decline . |
| 24 | Then he put his head down , growled and took the last few stairs three at a time . |
| 25 | Outside on the terrace , Karen and Eduardo drank wine and took the last of the day 's sun . |
| 26 | The Grimsby professional , however , responded to the challenge and took the last frame 100-17 . |
| 27 | We faced the barrel of a gun and chose the last thing we would do . |
| 28 | Jock shook my hand in passing , and introduced the last performer , Milorad Pavic . |
| 29 | The treaty , covering the external aspects of German unification , complemented that signed by the two German states on Aug. 31 [ see p. 37661 ] and removed the last major obstacle to unification on Oct. 3 , 1990 . |
| 30 | Thomas began his senior international career against the same country in May last year and won the last of his nine caps against France in February . |