Example sentences of "up to the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everything about it up to the last page where Strauss wrote IN MEMORIAM ! and we hear the ‘ Eroica ’ theme for the last time . |
| 2 | So there may be a sort of shame attached to being a Tory , up to the last minute , when a different instinct intervenes . |
| 3 | The normal business life of the town continued right up to the last moment and in some houses food was laid out for meals that were never eaten . |
| 4 | It also meant constant fighting right up to the last day , and for Bomber Command no let-up in the night by night sorties into enemy skies . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I never leave a wash until it is dry , as unwanted effects can occur right up to the last minute . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | MacDonald 's assumption throughout the Government and almost up to the last moment was that Baldwin and he would retire together , and that Neville Chamberlain , with the freshness , if not of youth , at least of never having been Prime Minister before , would succeed directly . |
| 10 | The table was littered with shrimp whiskers , the sponge-cake gobbled up to the last crumb — but all she could do was to sip painfully at a meagre cup of tea and toy with a few shoots of mustard and cress , although she had prepared the extensive meal . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Do you know she said she was n't coming to our wedding right up to the last moment , and when she did consent to come she behaved as if all the guests on my side were mud beneath her feet , though our family 's always been very well thought of around here , as I 'm sure you know , and my father could have bought her up a hundred times and not noticed the difference , and what was her father in New Zealand I wonder , some sheep dipper or other I would n't mind betting — you know the type that went to the colonies then — or perhaps he was a convict ! ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The distress of leaving them no doubt contributed to the ‘ sudden & severe indisposition of Mrs Gould … which inducing the utmost fears for her safety , rendered it very doubtful up to the last moment whether they would be able to go or not … ’ |
| 15 | The family 's passive resistance continued right up to the last moment : Zen was not permitted to set foot on Miletti soil but had to wait for the Fiat in the street , beyond the imposing wrought-iron gates . |
| 16 | Up to the last years of the eighteenth century , declining levels of employment in agriculture for the wives and daughters of the countryside could have been offset by the taking in of manufacturing work . |
| 17 | Obviously we do not want to be in two minds up to the last day and he would n't do that but there is quite a a period of discretion where the time gets shorter and er he would have to make a judgement . |
| 18 | Well , it had been , up to the last half-hour or so . |
| 19 | They 're only paying from the top branch up to the last branch on the tree . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Up to the last minute the enormous problems of ammunition supply to the guns had not been overcome . |
| 22 | Work is still going on in fitting out a new store right up to the last minute . |
| 23 | Oh that 's up to the last page . |
| 24 | Even up to the last . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |