Example sentences of "[prep] his last " in BNC.
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| 1 | After his last visit , he had gone to her and begged to be told the truth . |
| 2 | Warren Beatty gave Madonna security and the assurance of a credible film role ; Madonna gave Beatty ( above , behind and in front of the camera ) guaranteed box office success after his last , expensive flop , Ishtar . |
| 3 | He is still fondly remembered , many years after his last fight and final journey ; no doubt with Prince Charlie , over that last , great sea to the sky . |
| 4 | But 15 months after his last appearance in the ring he still takes pride in being called a boxer . |
| 5 | He was under constant guard after his last suicide attempt . ’ |
| 6 | By then he was forty-two years old , he was tired of the strains of FI racing , his kids were grown up and beginning to race themselves , his business interests ( and , by now , his reputation ) were all in the USA and , as he said phlegmatically at Las Vegas after his last race in FI , ‘ I just do n't see any reason to continue any more . |
| 7 | Earlier Robson 's dramatic arrival — five months after his last competitive encounter — had an immediate effect on United 's performance . |
| 8 | She made it her rule that Belfast , the Provisional wing of the Irish Republican Army , casual atrocities never crossed her lips , not after his last trip away , because the man who had come back to her from Northern Ireland had been frightened of his own shadow . |
| 9 | It was almost time for Compline when Cadfael came from the gardens after his last round of the evening , and saw horsemen riding in at the gate . |
| 10 | She never mentioned receiving anything else from Tristram , with or after his last communication . ’ |
| 11 | After he 'd been at Mandru for a while , Lucien learned that Mandru had refused to have any more boys from Por Tanssie after his last purchase from that academy had committed suicide . |
| 12 | Bryan Robson will play some part in the proceedings , three months after his last Premier League outing . |
| 13 | THE PEOPLE of Montenegro yesterday welcomed home the remains of Nicholas I , their first and last king , after 70 years ' exile in Italy , in belated fulfilment of his last will and testament . |
| 14 | In McEnroe 's case , the Garden was the scene of his last triumph of major significance . |
| 15 | In one of his last acts as environment secretary , Nicholas Ridley scrapped a similar scheme in Oxfordshire , at Stone Bassett . |
| 16 | FOR THE title of his last chapter Paul Fussell borrows Walt Whitman 's prediction about the American Civil War , ‘ The real war will never get in the books ’ , and then comments : ‘ Nor will the Second World War , and ‘ books ’ includes this one . ’ |
| 17 | This was certainly how Keynes saw it in one of his last memoranda , in February 1946 . |
| 18 | One of his last acts was to heave the contents of the wine cellar ( some bottles of whiskey ) into the back of a relative 's car . |
| 19 | One of his last acts , two days before his death from prostate cancer , was to accept formal leadership of a new political party after his own had sacked him . |
| 20 | ‘ White spent much of his life balanced on the boundary between crankiness and brilliance , ’ continues Girouard ; ‘ in the end he fell off on the wrong side , and a large proportion of his last years were wasted in trying to prove that Shakespeare was Bacon . |
| 21 | Her faith in him was severely tested later , especially in 1908 and again in 1913 ; but she drew on deep reservoirs of resilience until the anxieties of his last year as a soldier began to sap her energies as housekeeper , mother , and gardener . |
| 22 | If the exiled son were a soldier and died suddenly , as so often happened , a brother officer would write of his last hours to the sorrowing parents ( see chapter seven ) . |
| 23 | I think he even said that in one of his last interviews , at 27 , that if he had to do it all over again , he would n't . |
| 24 | Ari was taken aback by the vehemence of his last remark . |
| 25 | Even Casey , according to Bob Woodward 's highly contentious description of his last days , answered Woodward 's query about the propriety of the diversion to the contras with the remark — — uttered not once , but twice — ‘ I believed . ’ |
| 26 | The black comedy of the gallows scene in Verdi 's Un ballo in maschera is very Verdian and also very Karajanesque ; and though Karajan often made out the critics in Strauss 's Ein Heldenleben to be a nicer bunch than they probably are , I have yet to hear a more vitriolically gossipy performance of the ‘ Tritsch-Tratsch ’ Polka than the one Karajan conducted with the Philharmonia Orchestra in one of his last recordings with them in September 1960 . |
| 27 | It included dropped shots at two of his last three holes . |
| 28 | The title of his last book , Possible Worlds , gives a key to the process : that the world we inhabit is by no means the only one , but only one of any number we may care to imagine . |
| 29 | He understandably carries the burden of expectancy in the States , winner of two of his last five tournaments and , in one of those he did not win , a course record 63 in last week 's Players ' championship . |
| 30 | He understandably carries the burden of expectancy in the United States , being winner of two of his last five tournaments and , in one of those he did not win , having a course record 63 in last week 's Players ' Championship . |