Example sentences of "[vb pp] [art] last " in BNC.
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| 1 | The previous evening , I could not have completed the last fifty yards without his help , but now if he had climbed on my back he could not have been more of a hindrance . |
| 2 | Willie had completed the last of the ‘ Learning to Read ’ books . |
| 3 | Christina had just received the last consignment of furniture , arriving in the nick of time to prevent it being dumped higgledy-piggledy in the reception hall . |
| 4 | It was four days ( during which he was given the last rites ) before his doctors gave him a chance to live through . |
| 5 | Still , in the next few days as the news began to filter in from Niki 's hospital that Niki had been given the last rites , that he had inhaled burning fuel and damaged his lungs , that his face had been appallingly burned , the facts did begin to sink in . |
| 6 | If this excluded option is allowed back into the debate , and the claim that our existing intuitions should not be given the last word is seriously considered , the authority of the case for individualism is immediately questioned . |
| 7 | Niki Lauda displayed courage beyond all recognition in 1976 when , six weeks after being given the Last Rites , he was back behind the wheel of his Ferrari picking up points in the Italian Grand Prix at Monza . |
| 8 | Given the last two terms , the government had over a hundred majority , a by-election was n't important . |
| 9 | And as a mark of their respect for their aviator comrade , a lone bugler played The Last Post and Reveille before an RAF Hercules flew over the graveside at Frankby Cemetery in a special salute to the man who had given the last six years of his life to his country . |
| 10 | On second thoughts , she wished she had not uttered the last sentence . |
| 11 | Bobby Lavender came of age at the time the police had just crushed the last Black Panthers political group and new non-political gangs were beginning . |
| 12 | US officials believe they have not heard the last of the Soviet proposal for naval nuclear disarmament , which was carefully phrased to echo a similar plan put forward unofficially by the veteran US arms negotiator , Mr Paul Nitze . |
| 13 | But what persuades me that we have not heard the last of Havel the writer is that he combines a total commitment to social freedom and individual responsibility with an extraordinary ironic detachment . |
| 14 | ‘ You 've not heard the last of this , ’ Swire Sugden threatened as he stormed out of the church hall . |
| 15 | With Labour , like Lamont , pledged to abolish the Budget as such , we may just have heard the last Tory Budget of all . |
| 16 | ‘ Do n't think you 've heard the last of this matter , ’ he said through his teeth , ‘ you wo n't get away with it , taking from me my home and my birthright , I should have been the eldest son , I am more worthy of the position . |
| 17 | ‘ He said , if I remember correctly , something like , ‘ We have n't heard the last of this ’ while beating his nose black and blue with his Biro . ’ |
| 18 | She really had thought she 'd heard the last of that voice . |
| 19 | Valerie Stevens had been in the house to get more coffee and as she stepped through the patio doors she stood for a moment staring at Rachel in horror , having only heard the last part of the conversation . |
| 20 | The police do n't think we 've heard the last of the attackers who seem prepared to endanger many lives in an attempt to reach their targets . |
| 21 | In the promenade bus-shelter they broke the window they had n't broken the last time they 'd visited it . |
| 22 | one because I 've buggered the last one up . |
| 23 | South Korea have won the last three tournaments . |
| 24 | But had the Labour Party won the last Election they too would be facing hefty tax bills and precisely the same threat to their lavish standards of living . |
| 25 | Palacio has won the last two , but I doubt whether he has much ambition left to extend McMillan past the eighth round . |
| 26 | Yet you still came across people who thought that South Africa would have won the last World Cup . |
| 27 | Australia have won the last four tournaments . |
| 28 | He had won the last contest on points , thank God , but he knew that a series of ‘ X ’ films , and the suggestive posters that were essential to their promotion , would give Father Whatsisname just the chance he wanted to point the accusing finger . |
| 29 | Reid has won the last two Ulster rounds in the series at Temple and the Mid-Antrim 150 while James Courtney sneaked in to take the round at Dundalk . |
| 30 | they 've won the last six home matches |