Example sentences of "and [v-ing] the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | The late afternoon slid into night , bringing a touch of frost and sapping the last of warmth and cheerfulness . |
| 2 | To my surprise , the singer gave me a friendly nod before throwing his head back and tackling the last verses . |
| 3 | If the ISAM method is in use , the effect of adding a new record to a block of records is to cause the block to be re-built , incorporating the new record and pushing the last record of the last block on the track off into overflow . |
| 4 | We are now validating and approving the last of the three batches of courses for the new system and , apart from a few special cases , this will mean that all students beginning an advanced course after the summer will be enrolling for a modular , rather than traditional , course . |
| 5 | But when one track came dangerously close to being ‘ rompalong , knees-up , power-pop anthem ’ the band quickly sabotaged it by sticking ‘ a cheesy drum machine behind it and turning the last two minutes into a total sonic attack ’ — much to the tearful bewilderment of their paymasters , left-field Belgians Play It Again Sam . |
| 6 | She found him in her office eating sandwiches and downing the last of his coffee . |
| 7 | It'a away at Man City and considering the last two visits to Maine road where we let in 4 goals each game , Is there any chance of us winning this game ? considering also that we did n't win any away games last season . |
| 8 | Trent waited for a squall to hit , then moved fast , dropping to the ground and crawling the last few yards . |
| 9 | She turned to look towards the shore , relieved when she saw the Sea-Fret making good headway back to Brides Haven , then a flock of screaming gulls startled her into resuming her climb , and soon she was on the Neck and starting the last , steep push towards the plateau . |
| 10 | Ronnie therefore had to finish it on site , spending the best part of a week-end in the palace perfecting the pattern march and joining the last of the pieces together . |
| 11 | The hills themselves looked asleep , the heather glowed dust-blue in the hazy light , and the people , after a night of little sleep and hours of walking and standing , now looked stunned as they sat on the grassy banks , leaned on dykes , or lay on their backs in the hayfields , munching oatcakes and drinking the last of their water . |