Example sentences of "last [noun sg] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though there is broad agreement on the contents of such books on constitutional law , in the last resort it depends on what academic lawyers consider relevant — and a quick survey of standard textbooks will show that at the margins there are significant variations in what is brought into the orbit of the British ‘ constitution ’ . |
| 2 | of ahi sā that ‘ In the last resort it does not avail to those who do not possess a living faith in the God of Love . ’ |
| 3 | When she took the last fence it brought her right around the wood , opposite the point where the Master had asked them to fan out . |
| 4 | Oh well , in the last second it went another ten metres . |
| 5 | Last second it went another ten metres . |
| 6 | Perhaps it decided to stay put and I would n't notice it was there and maybe at the last second it decided it would run for it ! |
| 7 | It begins with a single central fact , the murder ; it broadens out as suspect after suspect comes into play ; then almost at the last moment it narrows abruptly down to another single fact , the murderer . |
| 8 | It had a bit of all of these things rolled into one and best of all , on the last day it had the races . |
| 9 | Firstly , in the last decade it has consistently met it aim of improving profits and earnings per share by at least 20 per cent a year . |
| 10 | The book of Kings for instance must have been written after the last event it mentions — the release of King Jehoiachin from prison in 562 BC — yet it also relates the accession of Solomon , some 400 years earlier , as well as numerous events in between . |
| 11 | The 27-year-old from Madrid had started yesterday 's penultimate leg with a comfortable lead of 1min 36sec , but when he arrived at Newcastle last night it had been trimmed to 31sec . |
| 12 | WIRRAL social services , smarting from an Ombudsman 's rap , claimed last night it had been the victim of its own generous policies . |
| 13 | News at Ten may have been ahead of the BBC 's Nine O'Clock News in the ratings but last night it seemed unsure of what it was trying to do . |
| 14 | And last night it got me into hot water . |
| 15 | Clive Exton 's determined melding of two separate Jeeves stories per episode continues to give me trouble , but last night it achieved a climax worthy of the original as the straw-boatered burghers from Birdsburg queued to press the flesh of the plethoric Dook of Chis-wick . |
| 16 | And last night it came to a head with Mr MacSharry privately blaming his interfering boss for his decision to stand down , and Commission sources confirming that he felt badly let down by M Delors . |
| 17 | Last night it emerged that the same hospital was involved in another baby mix-up . |
| 18 | And last night it emerged that the man was being held in police cells because there was n't enough space for him at Durham prison . |
| 19 | But last night it cost fourteen year old Lewis Hall his life . |
| 20 | Last night it cried like a little child , and I got out of bed and went to the window to listen . |
| 21 | Last month it doubled the speed of its 486 chip and later this year the company is expected to introduce the next generation processor , the 586 . |
| 22 | Last month it lifted the pharmaceuticals component of its turnover above 60 p.c. with the purchase of Peter Hand from Hillsdown for £7½m . |
| 23 | Since the end of last month it became illegal to burn off the stubble after harvest — that leaves farmers with the options of either ploughing it in or looking for alternative uses for it . |
| 24 | Last month it fell to just over 4 per cent . |
| 25 | Last month it agreed to spend £194.2m on the US-based ABS cheque-printing business . |
| 26 | Last month it lit the fuse on one of the biggest news stories of the year . |
| 27 | When IBM stock hit bottom with a such resounding thud last month it cost its shareholders more than $6 billion , 17.5% of total capitalisation . |
| 28 | Last week it announced first-quarter contributions of £11.1m from CMB — the result of the £900m merger between Metal Box and the French Carnaud company . |
| 29 | In 1988 the Japanese giant bought CBS records for $2bn and last week it announced that it would take control of Columbia pictures . |
| 30 | Last week it announced that it had signed a letter of intent to sell its Ross Technology Inc subsidiary , repository of all its Sparc work , to Fujitsu Ltd for $23m . |