Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pron] last " in BNC.
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| 1 | Much love to you both — and renewed thanks for including me last week . |
| 2 | We may therefore deflate B , omitting its last row and column and continue the iterations with the leading first minor of B. It is found that , after 22 more iterations , working to six decimal places , unc Thus , the eigenvalues of A are , in descending order of modulus , 12.5 , 5.0 , 2.5 , 0 . |
| 3 | Most of the inhabitants of the block were walking their last circuits before being locked in , and there was an absence of noise which merged with the deepening gloom . |
| 4 | He 's keeping his last remaining beds for acute admissions and asks , not unreasonably , for the patient 's blood pressure . |
| 5 | But there was to be no happy ending , as first Barwick and then Treleaven beat his mark by a stroke , the latter even bogeying his last hole , the 18th , after his drive found the trees . |
| 6 | Those who could n't read the words made them up , and Tich , who 'd lost his glasses , settled for singing ‘ Widecombe Fair ’ instead , coughing , spluttering and relishing his last night out . |
| 7 | McHale hinted that he may make as many as four changes for the trip , but was not revealing anything last night . |
| 8 | Thoroughly enjoying her last year at school . |
| 9 | Inside they are drinking up : two hundred and fifty black fellers nursing their last long drinks . |
| 10 | RCA in America claim to have spent half a million dollars promoting my last album but it was obviously money spent in stupid ways . |
| 11 | Back in Britain writing my last newsletter to the Group in Scotland I had loved and brought together , I said that I thought we had to be much bolder , taking an a priori stance on the fact that there could be no discrimination against women . |
| 12 | Miss Kay Evans , Chairing her last meeting as the Society 's President welcomed the four new committee members , Toni Bergman , Adrienne Ring , Cecilia Taylor and Jan Weisner and thanked the retiring members , Bridget Ewing and Berta Group . |
| 13 | Nutty , remembering her last encounter , could n't agree , but let it pass . |
| 14 | She kept the sheet firmly pulled beneath her chin , unwilling to let Johnny see her nakedness , remembering their last meeting , and wary of him now . |
| 15 | Yesterday , the Newcastle-upon-Tyne-based house-builder reported first-half profits nearly doubled , from £2.5 million at £4.8 million , and the restoration of the interim dividend at 1p , after passing it last time . |
| 16 | She realised she was on her own ; George must be expecting a true Conflict Situation if he was already saving his last bullet for himself . |
| 17 | Sadly and long , looking his last at her |
| 18 | It was he who introduced me to the doyen of all Tibetan experts , Sir Charles Bell who , because of the war , was living quietly at The Old Charming Inn near Victoria while writing his last book . |
| 19 | He died without remorse , writing his last ‘ Sieg Heil ! ’ not twenty minutes before the hangman entered the condemned cell . |
| 20 | Allan Wilkins has sold tens of thousands of reflective car number plates since he first started selling them last June . |
| 21 | The good news is that , aside from being squashed into a tour van , the Kitchens Of Distinction are back on top form again after the various disasters surrounding their last UK tour . |
| 22 | Mrs Phipps asked , ignoring her last question . |
| 23 | Samantha laughed at this pretentious way of describing their last meal . |
| 24 | The thought of her twitching her last in a plastic hat , face covered with green mud , carried him through to their bedroom ( a room Elinor had taken to calling ‘ my ’ bedroom ) and shored him up against Maisie 's rendition of the second subject in ‘ Für Elise ’ . |
| 25 | For another , the ‘ war party ’ may already have taken over within the Vietminh : at least when Sainteny , attempting his last act of mediation , saw Ho for the last time before the war started , he complained about the moderate elements who had been eliminated from the government to the benefit of the notorious Francophobes ; and as the war was on the point of beginning , and as attacks on French soldiers and civilians had not ceased , nor had French retaliation , Sainteny 's exasperation was to be seen in his demand that culprits should be punished within 24 hours . |
| 26 | ‘ You can just jump down on everyone and turn them into worms , ’ the imp added encouragingly , ignoring his last remark . |
| 27 | Yeah , yeah , I know , well my daughter in law , was practically down on the phone kissing me last year when I said look Myrie , would n't you like it this year if I did n't come to you , you know , she 's done Christmas 's for me , year in year out |
| 28 | After sending my last I felt compelled to turn about and go back to Waterford for news of the little burned girl , whose name is Mary Coen . |
| 29 | I hate ‘ Guernica ’ 's penultimate journey postponing its last , triumphant voyage into nothingness . |
| 30 | General complaints are made by blacksmiths , wheelwrights , collar-makers and indeed of all trades that are much dependant on agriculture of the great difficulties of getting their last years bill paid … . |