Example sentences of "her [prep] last " in BNC.

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1 She keeps giving me clothes — ; not this dear old awful thing , Mrs McPhee at home made this — and making me practise manners and the piano and I could n't tell her about last night , I could n't , I ca n't disappoint another person , not after my mother — ’ and Alexandra put her head down on to the slice of bread on her plate and burst into tears .
2 They reminded her of last night , and the feeling of walking in the moonless night with her own arm intertwined with Miguelito 's .
3 Lynch , who fell at the first fence on his only other Grand National ride in 1981 , had looked likely to miss the race after Auntie Dot , one of his regular mounts , had been promised to Mark Dwyer , who finished third on her in last year 's race .
4 The row is over her attempt to evict Xoliswa Falati , who was accused with her in last year 's sensational kidnap and assault trial , from one of the Mandela homes in Soweto .
5 His Mum had n't taken him to work with her since last year .
6 I have n't heard from her since last summer .
7 She might even , he suggested , as they went to the stairs , benefit from a quiet winter with her sister to help and think what joy lay ahead with Oreste brought to her at last .
8 The girl was glued to the spot , terror-struck , pop-eyed , quivering , knowing for certain that the Day of Judgment had come for her at last .
9 ‘ By golly , somebody 's floored her at last ! ’ cried one of the men , grinning .
10 The Doctor turned to her at last .
11 ‘ Annunziata , are you all right ? ’ asked Julia when the question of dinner was settled , relieved to be able to talk to her at last with reasonable fluency .
12 She felt the bones give and moved away quickly , coughing now , the smoke getting to her at last .
13 God and the saints remembered her at last . ’
14 Ruth was looking at her at last with sharp , bright black eyes .
15 It was in the boot-and-brushing room that Nicandra found her at last — after a search through the larders , the dairy , and the empty laundry , its warm steam now subsided into a vaporous chill .
16 Nausea overwhelmed her at last .
17 Her father pressed a kiss to her forehead , and smiled , releasing her at last .
18 Releasing her at last , he stepped back .
19 Aware only of the bumping of her heart and the pressuring of his mouth on hers even as he carried her through interminable pathways to the journey 's end , Sarella felt him lower her at last on to his bed .
20 ‘ He 's spending a few days with Maria Luisa in Valencia on the mainland , ’ Fernando told her at last .
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