Example sentences of "last [noun] [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Parental smoking was dichotomised ( regular or occasional smoker v non-smoker , former smoker or not known ) , and father 's occupation was categorised into four groups : manual , non-manual , unemployed , and not known ( this last category made up 21% ( 943 ) of the 4538 responses ) . |
| 2 | " After about and hour-and-a-half or so of questions etc " Macmillan spent the last hour summing up " the political and military situation ; the problems confronting the Field Marshal and HMG and the equivocal and uncertain attitude of the Americans " . |
| 3 | Well I was working in the quarry , and er it 's last March turned round and said he wanted a new implemented with a new miracle saw that he had bought and he did n't really give us much warning about what he was gon na do but all he said was that er he was gon na scrap our old bonus contract and implement a new one no matter what , and from various figures that were bandied about we all realized we were gon na back quite a lot worse off because of it . |
| 4 | Notice that the right shift truncates the result ; some computers provide a version of arithmetic right shift which adds to the right-hand bit position of the result the value of the last bit shifted out . |
| 5 | As the last wave periscoped up , with only a minute or so left in the heat , Pottz knew he had to take it : he needed a fourth wave to beat Carroll . |
| 6 | At last Sophie got up . |
| 7 | Labour may also gamble that Scottish Liberal Democrats — who in the last parliament made up almost half Mr Ashdown 's party — will be reluctant to vote down a government which is trying to legislate for a Scottish assembly elected by proportional representation . |
| 8 | We leaned on the railing , and peered down through the littered lattice of cross-angled trees , their backs broken in their last attempt to scramble up the cliff . |
| 9 | At last David came back and stood looking down at her . |
| 10 | Chekov 's melodramatic last words sum up the film quite neatly : ‘ Well I guess this is goodbye ! ’ |
| 11 | The last words came out defiantly . |
| 12 | They could have done it last Friday put up with mind |
| 13 | Devon and Cornwall police last Friday took up the case of Pipe 's Her Honour , found to have been doped when flopping at Kempton in January . |
| 14 | The last brothers to line up together for England were Coventry forwards Arthur and Harold Wheatley , against Scotland at Twickenham in 1938 . |
| 15 | Lothar , in a last bid to shore up his power in western Francia , made a foray to the Seine . |
| 16 | The last dance went on for a long time . |
| 17 | Legging it , they got down behind cover just as the last second ran out . |
| 18 | At last Foreman came back , pulling up a chair beside them like some benevolent uncle ready to listen to a story or tell a merry tale . |
| 19 | ‘ Last question coming up — what are your hopes for the future at Radio Glencoe ? |
| 20 | Then as soon as the last act goes up Bobby will ring for a doctor and say that Bunty 's had an accident . |
| 21 | And John felt Emily 's hand tighten on his own as the last lines rolled out : |
| 22 | the sky 's last brightness given back by water , |
| 23 | The first teams started the course at 10.30am and there followed a steady stream of contestants wandering around Battersea , struggling to remember long-forgotten pieces of general knowledge until the last team set off at 1.45 . |
| 24 | The last team to knock out Saints at this stage were Barrow in 1981-82 when they forced a shock 16-16 draw at Knowsley Road then won the replay 17-0 . |
| 25 | Now it took several years for er the new incentive scheme to be introduced throughout the whole of the works and I think during my last discussion you know , I did indicate that the fitters for example , you know , were about the last group to go on . |
| 26 | The Chameleons were the last band to come out of Aston-Under-Lyme — but do n't let that put you off . |
| 27 | The Chameleons were the last band to come out of Aston-Under-Lyme — but do n't let that put you off . |
| 28 | However , by the 1970s the population had dwindled to less than 20 , and the last inhabitant moved out three years ago , after the land was bought by South West Water . |
| 29 | BR 's motive-power policy was rapidly turned on its head with the abandonment of two sacred principles : sectorisation saw the end of the common-user policy for locomotives and passenger multiple units : and no longer was it accepted that life-expired main-line cast-offs should spend their last days propping up secondary services . |
| 30 | I was a teenager in the last war growing up . |