Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [prep] the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | The flight was successfully undertaken to the area of Kerkenah Island , where two 22X Squadron Sunderlands met the Hurricanes and led them on the last leg to the island . |
| 2 | And that got me into the last three so I had to do it all again at the Barbican which I think was to see if I could fill that theatre with enough presence and vocal range . |
| 3 | However , for the third time this season , Wantage could not hold on to a lead given them in the last five minutes , and allowed Andy Martin to shoot home for the equaliser for Bicester . |
| 4 | Pressing himself against the last wagon he peered around the side for any sign of the guards . |
| 5 | He said , ‘ No , I have statements , I have witnesses and we 've been surveying you for the last four months . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ What I want now is to know who in the last month has been here to buy arsenic and belladonna ? |
| 7 | Largely instrumental , it 's like warm soapy water , soothing and enveloping you in the last bath of the day . |
| 8 | They ca n't gazump you at the last minute cos it makes |
| 9 | there for three pairs which was just as well I stopped you on the last one . |
| 10 | Likewise , control clicking ( holding down the CTRL key while you click ) allows you to select multiple items for processing and shift clicking highlights everything from the last highlighted item to the one your pointer is over as you shift click . |
| 11 | She was about to say so , in no uncertain terms , but stopped herself at the last moment . |
| 12 | She used the buses and wherever she found herself on the last bus at night , whether at her own home or at her son 's , she would stay for the night only to set off again early the following morning . |
| 13 | If he races on Saturday New Level will line up against the much fancied Ringa Hustle and the dog which beat him in the last round , Apres Soleil , which is on offer at 80–1 . |
| 14 | The norw. team who looked sure to qualify have vasted it in the last two games by loosing away and have no chance to qualify . |
| 15 | He found it on the last day of 1869 under nearly twenty feet of sand . |
| 16 | She was about to shake her head , but changed it at the last moment to a nod . |
| 17 | But we do think that the fact that they chose to launch it on the last day of our Conference is quite a compliment ; it was after all the Green Party that forced the government to produce the White Paper as a result of our fifteen% in the European Elections last year . |
| 18 | He did n't catch us until the last peak , Creag nan Damh , where a number of ridge-walkers were gathered , basking in the delight of the afternoon and resting on their laurels after a mammoth expedition . |
| 19 | I can not chuck them at the last minute . |
| 20 | Harvey was there in a red-coat uniform , smiling and doing his neat little dances and pretending to drop plates and saving them at the last minute , and the girls were saying ‘ Ooo ’ and slyly studying each other 's hairdos and shoes . |
| 21 | You look at the skill you did n't know you had , put a label on it and think : ‘ Yes I do do that ’ , whereas when you first walk in you think you 've done nothing for the last 18 years . |
| 22 | I have you and all at your magazine to thank for your support , but listening to the troubles of fishkeepers on the telephone and when meeting them over the last twelve months I am left in no doubt that there is a vast array of undetectable contaminants in our tapwater , apart from just chlorine , which consistently depress fish condition and render them less able to resist stress and infection . |
| 23 | What 's really moved me over the last three or four years , as AIDS has become a major threat in this country , and especially since spring 1985 with the rising public hysteria about it , is that it 's brought out tremendous reserves of strength in lesbians and gay men which show the importance of the achievements of the previous fifteen years . |
| 24 | You feel him imagining himself as the last rock of culture and civilization being swept over by a wave of barbarism and Jews ( communism and commercialism ) , the saviour of more than the Constitution , the saviour of all that has been culture , the snob of the West . |
| 25 | It was squarely concluded that Hitler , through the over-estimation of his own strength and rejection of all overtures for peace from neutral states , ‘ bears himself in the last resort the blame for the retrograde development which has now set in ’ . |
| 26 | ‘ I 've seen plenty in the last few months . ’ |
| 27 | He made a birdie at the next , but just missed one at the last and lost by a shot . |
| 28 | His friends hail him as the last great artist of the 20th century . |
| 29 | Saw him at a sale being knocked down to a known horsemeat dealer and stepped in and outbid him at the last moment . |
| 30 | During the campaign itself Healey was noticed by only about 12 per cent on average but that concealed some sharp variations : 28 per cent noticed him in the last two days of the campaign , immediately after a spectacular on-screen row with TV-am presenter Ann Diamond . |