Example sentences of "down [prep] [art] last [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It did not seem so cute after a massive explosion ripped apart the pilot plant ( ironically as it was being shut down for the last time ) and killed two of Dequasie 's colleagues . |
| 2 | Marr watches ‘ Ouija Board ’ go down for the last time |
| 3 | AN ERA ends today when the shutters come down for the last time at the Owen Owen store in Liverpool . |
| 4 | She was still sick at heart when she passed down through the last glade and found herself staring at the Lodge 's covert thatch , its closed door , She stood for a time in the yard outside , afraid to enter . |
| 5 | Many medieval millers paid their rent to the lord of the manor in eels ; and when the water-mill in the centre of Stafford was pulled down after the last war , the laconic miller expressed as his only regret : ‘ I shall miss the eels . ’ |
| 6 | Down towards the last hour I 'm the last person to drop off just trying to leave them with as many positive thoughts and perhaps talking quietly to the odd individual . |
| 7 | When the last mince pie had gone and the last slice of plum pudding had been washed down with the last drop of Madeira , the children were sent up to recapture the sleep of which Father Christmas ' bounty had robbed them . |
| 8 | The champion jockey had been waving the whip in his left hand and when he put it down inside the last furlong , I must say that the clear impression from behind my glasses was that he thought the race was over . |
| 9 | Right down from the last quarter of the nineteenth century to the 1960s one can indeed construct a counter-grandadology to Pearson 's ‘ history of respectable fears ’ . |
| 10 | It was not until seven o'clock in the morning that Gabriel climbed down from the last rick , exhausted and wet to the skin . |
| 11 | Even more significant , is the fall in underlying inflation — down in the last year from 5.5 per cent to 3.25 per cent . |
| 12 | ‘ It was a good match and because I always felt I had a chance to break Byron I was not too unhappy when I went 3–0 down in the last set . |
| 13 | Not surprisingly , then , their package of proposals for constitutional change has much in common with the perspective set down in the last section . |
| 14 | Before we leave erm seventeen fours erm sheet , the there was a question I 'd have , I think it 's probably addressed to Graham rather than anything , nothing personal about this , er , the actual state of equivalent in the month , the third figure down in the last box |
| 15 | The Ulster Unionists ended up with 197 seats , but their share of the vote — 29.1pc , was 2pc down on the last council election . |
| 16 | Wherever she went she carried her bag with her personal belongings down to every last rag . |
| 17 | A sky-blue bus lumbered past , then they shot out on to the curving mountain road behind it , and a second later overtook it with a roar that must have terrified the already nervous passengers , as the buses always drove maniacally around these bends , desperate to stick to their schedule right down to the last fraction of a second . |
| 18 | Caroline discovered that Nicolo had not bought too much food , because they finished it all , right down to the last bit of crusty , delicious bread . |
| 19 | A tie break situation was forced when with each team having won one leg , they both recorded exactly the same weight , right down to the last gramme , in the third and final match . |
| 20 | It would be completely furnished , down to the last teaspoon . |
| 21 | ‘ Induction offers the chef total control down to the last degree , and because only the pan is heated it means chefs no longer have to work in a hot , uncomfortable kitchen environment . ’ |
| 22 | This is the menu as recorded by the Colonel and solemnly consumed down to the last friandise : |
| 23 | If you were designing the ultimate holiday resort for Club 18–30 , you would copy San Antonio right down to the last bar and grain of sand . |
| 24 | After that I replaced everything that may have become contaminated with metal toxins , down to the last grain of sand . |
| 25 | They expect you to know exactly how many there are , even the exact number of barn owls in the British Isles , right down to the last check . |
| 26 | I could have told you every single item of food I had in the cupboard every , down to the last bean ! |
| 27 | They were down to the last roll of flowered wrapping paper– The shop had the look of a battlefield the morning after . |
| 28 | I remember when he always used to read out during the service before the sermon the previous week 's collection and it used to consist of the collection last Sunday consisted of one pensioning note , twenty ha'penny half crown pieces , forty florins and he 'd go all through the coinage down to the last ha'penny but erm oh I believe he was , he was er very aristocratic , very aristocratic , but er Father , cos he used to come over our house quite a lot when my mother was on the parochial church council , and er he had a curate that was quite leftish and he got himself on the old Board of Guardians and of course he used to sort of er go into the Labour Club and was quite of er father , he said to old Father one night he said erm he 's a funny chap your curate he said well he , he 's the son of a farm labourer he says and I 'm the son of a country squire and that 's the difference . |
| 29 | It had not crossed Flora 's mind that St Saviour 's might need payment for teaching her , only that her place there depended upon her ability to have the right uniform , all the uniform , down to the last sock garter and science overall . |
| 30 | By measuring the scattering of X-rays by hirudin , when linked to a key blood coagulation factor called thrombin , his team deduced its structure down to the last atom . |