Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] last " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shareholders , who received a total dividend payout for 1991 of 3.75p per share , will receive nothing for last year . |
| 2 | Nothing about last night , him or me . |
| 3 | ‘ Tell me about last night . |
| 4 | If Wishart began talking about painting , he attended for five minutes , then deflected the conversation with ‘ Do tell me about last night 's sailor . ’ |
| 5 | I suppose that 's as good a reason as any for changing them after last year : - ) Especially that blue Chelsea-like thing . |
| 6 | I have meant to write to you a hundred times during the last three weeks but at all hours of the day I have been busied with teaching and beating and supervising footballings until when at last after all the animals were caged up and I at last had some peace , I have been too sad & too weary to write anything . |
| 7 | It cost pounds in 1946 , but when I at last got it , I could write underwater . |
| 8 | After I 'd kissed her goodbye I felt pretty happy because not only had I at last had an extremely enjoyable sexual experience , but I 'd also been able to give enjoyment . |
| 9 | Only as the cloverleaf began to appear as a grey shape in the otherwise black wall did I at last fall into a dream-wracked sleep . |
| 10 | He wrote : " I at last scarce ever went out and nothing occupied my thought but how to escape from this bloody country . " |
| 11 | I was a someone at last . |
| 12 | Last year someone at last cracked the tide mystery . |
| 13 | I thought , ‘ Oh my God , I 've found someone at last that really does care for me . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Yes — keep your fingers crossed — I think I 've actually found someone at last , ’ she told him with a thankful sigh . |
| 15 | Have you shipwrecked that crazy boat of yours at last ? " |
| 16 | His mouth closed over hers with the passion and glory she knew would never die and she melted into his impassioned embrace with a heart that was free to be his at last . |
| 17 | But will the scheme also cover business interruption loss , which in last year 's explosion amounted to £100m ? |
| 18 | NICK FALDO stirred himself at last in the Masters at Augusta National yesterday when a third round of 68 made him five under par for the tournament before a storm caused a three-hour delay that had a disastrous effect on defending champion Ian Woosnam , who had been sharing the lead with Craig Parry . |
| 19 | ‘ May God rest your soul , Mother , ’ I heard him say to himself at last . |
| 20 | In short , he had identified himself at last with the spirit of the times . |
| 21 | GUIL stirs himself at last . ) |
| 22 | I do not want to be harsh , but when I first set eyes on him I knew the type at once : the big , gangling provincial , so eager and relieved to find himself at last in artistic circles . |
| 23 | Freeing himself at last from the invisible sheet , he rolled over and lay on top of her , covering her with his body , his face very close to her own . |
| 24 | ‘ It 's nice to be here , ’ he replied with a composed smile , seating himself at last in one of the armchairs , as the woman arranged the tea things on a small table in front of them . |
| 25 | He stirred himself at last and looked round , to find one even more worn out with weariness than himself . |
| 26 | On July 25th , 1908 , the rails forced their way into Denwood , and those who had been waiting so long and patiently considered that the prizes were theirs at last . |
| 27 | A voice from the press benches said loudly of this rather elementary point of honour : ‘ Thank God somebody at last had the guts to say it . ’ |
| 28 | I told them you can bitch about found somebody at last . |
| 29 | This was an appointment which I had repeatedly put off but which at last I was being forced to keep . |
| 30 | Hardly a month goes by without one newspaper or another announcing the development of a computer ‘ with which at last you can converse in ordinary English , not a programming language ’ . |