Example sentences of "last [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wild boars are roaming woodland they last inhabited in the fifteenth century . |
| 2 | This last referred to the custom of sending pregnant unmarried girls to ‘ lie in ’ upon Temple Moor , which was mentioned in the case of Edith Gilpin of Temple in 1777 . |
| 3 | In the course of twenty-five years of persistent pioneering work , he was responsible for novel design features , such as the duplex condenser ( 1924 ) , objective changer ( 1926 ) , and cone condenser ( 1930 ) , the last allowing for the first time ultraviolet , dark-ground photographs of viruses . |
| 4 | If only an ordinary copy ( not an office copy ) has been delivered to you , then the date to search from is that on which the land certificate was last checked with the entries on the Register , this being the date given in the land certificate which will be supplied by the seller on appropriate requisition — " What is the date on which the land certificate was last compared with the entries on the register ? " |
| 5 | It had been ten past five when I had last checked on the time . |
| 6 | This predicament forced him to examine his goals and to make one last push for the success which had eluded him for so long . |
| 7 | After their rest , they began the last push to the islands , the most difficult part of their journey yet . |
| 8 | We were no trouble to our mother , who was at last recovering from the dreadful ‘ flu ’ that killed more folk than the 1914 – 18 war itself . |
| 9 | It last met on the 8th of this month . |
| 10 | We last met on the Sunday before his death . |
| 11 | Richardson 's Garvey colleague Dan Clarke will win his 50th cap in the game , and will be hoping that the Irish can improve on the 4-1 defeat at the hands of England when they last met in the Centenary Trophy staged in Dublin in June . |
| 12 | During the next half hour they worked in this way , and when the empty cases and the bed covers were at last placed on the cart , Aggie locked the door , then hesitated for a moment , wondering what to do with the key . |
| 13 | Since then he has been permitted to search on Crown estates in Morayshire which were last excavated by the Duke of Richmond in 1860 . |
| 14 | The document ranked in order of importance the factors it wished to take into account in a new procedure : its knowledge of the institution ‘ as a whole ’ , the quality and experience of the staff , and the papers submitted for the proposed course ( the last justified by the fact that ‘ the discipline involved in preparing and documenting a proposal for the approval or re-approval of a course of study is extremely valuable to the College submitting it ’ ) . |
| 15 | If you stand on a hill in winter when there is a thaw or look down from a motorway , especially in the Midlands , you can hardly miss the pattern of long parallel bands of snow , which are always the last to go from the hollows of the old ridge and furrow . |
| 16 | Their past and present behaviour will clearly be relevant together with any change in their circumstances since they last cared for the child . |
| 17 | The magistrates point to the problematical definition of crimes against humanity , which was last modified by the Court of Cassation in 1985 to clarify the Klaus Barbie case . |
| 18 | It is salutary to recall that , as Europe 's main offshore islands , the British Isles were historically often the last to benefit from the diffusion of innovative ideas in Europe . |
| 19 | Mr Crosby has been at the centre of that romance , reviving the club 's fortunes almost immediately after taking over from Denis Smith at Christmas and then inspiring the sort of Cup run last enjoyed by the passionate Roker supporters in the days of Bob Stokoe . |
| 20 | Detached pigment and small but generalised lowering of colours are two problems which the restoration team headed by Maria Grazia Bernardini and Sara Staccioli have identified in the ‘ Sacred and Profane Love ’ , which was probably last relined at the beginning of the eighteenth century . |
| 21 | The modern practice of numbering the days of the month consecutively from the first to the last came to the West from Syria and Egypt in the second half of the sixth century . |
| 22 | It 's 43 years since Gwen Kent last came to the Churchill Hospital in Oxford for treatment . |
| 23 | Cider was last made on the farm in 1948 . |
| 24 | She had been last noticed at the wheel of the car when the Josephs arrived there . |
| 25 | Kamari Tours offer several interesting excursions and a visit to Santorini would not be complete without a boat trip to the active volcano on Neo Kameni or New Burnt Island , which last exploded in the 1950s . |
| 26 | Iacovleff 's works were last exhibited at the Grand Central Art Galleries in New York in 1939 . |
| 27 | Among their number Seb recognised Jacob Brailey , the Cockney gang-boss whom he had last met at the Wychwood Forest Fair . |
| 28 | ‘ Sphereality ’ was recorded live in concert and finds Crawlspace hanging on to the shreds of their psychedelic shape-shifting strum ( last featured on the 45 they made with Mooseheart Faith ) , only this time they are even more adventurous and what unravels goes far beyond any trip/trance acid groove . |
| 29 | In the Dragons Trilogy , created with Theatre Repère and last seen at the Riverside Studios , two Chinese sisters disappear into the bowels of ancient China , buried under a car park in contemporary Canada . |
| 30 | An hour could be passed , meeting people last seen at the Albert Hall , on the marches of the last ten years , at rock concerts , in pubs , the London School of Economics bar , the London Free School , the Marquee , the Young Socialists . |