Example sentences of "last [noun] she " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the last minutes she had been talking with extreme rapidity in a light high voice . |
| 2 | In 1816 Mrs Hawkes , a pious lady who had herself been a convert of Richard Cecil 's , was called to the death-bed of a Mr Vaughan , whose last hours she described in a letter to a friend : |
| 3 | Before the last cottage she paused as a woman appeared in the doorway . |
| 4 | When Nicola had despatched the last brick she began to yell loudly . |
| 5 | There was no emotion in his voice ; but I was thinking of Alison , of that last look she had given me . |
| 6 | In Miserywhip 's Last Stand she does not . |
| 7 | In her last term she won the Miss Clark Lawrence Award for service to the school : a special award , not necessarily given , ‘ for anyone who has done things that otherwise might have gone unsung ’ . |
| 8 | In fact , she won the history prize so many times that last term she was given it to keep , having only missed out in the second-year . |
| 9 | As she replaced the receiver after the last attempt she remembered Marc 's suggestion two days ago . |
| 10 | she was one of the first anyway , so er , but it took a long time before she had them , five years ' wait , and she said , that , at the last attempt she said to her husband that 's it now , if it does n't work this time , that 's it , I 'm not having any more attempts , that 's it definitely , and they had that successfully and that 's how they had the twins , so they 're her children , they are their children , it 's just they were fertilized outside the womb , in a glass dish it 's fascinating i n't it ? she said it 's really fascinating I can assure you I said oh I can see |
| 11 | Last Tuesday she was all smiles as she left the High Court joking with Judith Mellor . |
| 12 | She used the roses from the last wedding she 'd handled . |
| 13 | In the last chapter she meditates on the meaning of suffering . |
| 14 | Those were the last words she ever said . |
| 15 | Lola Taiwao is a clothes designer , and last spring she and her partner opened their own boutique , Culture Trend . |
| 16 | In fact a lady picked up all awards er last week last Friday she cleared almost cleared the floor she was so good . |
| 17 | This necklace , she said , picking up another , this was the last piece she had bought from him . |
| 18 | Despite everything she 'd said , her eyes fluttered closed in unspoken invitation , but at the last second she heard his laughter , low and mocking . |
| 19 | Somewhere past Pontino , the last village she remembers seeing , they were told to turn into a narrow lane where they were met by a small truck . |
| 20 | During her trial last May she denied all involvement . |
| 21 | The child of one of her lodgers died in her house in April of an undiagnosed heart complaint — the tiny thing 's heart simply stopped as it lay in its cot — and though she was sorry for it and sympathetic to the last degree she was aware that inside herself she shrugged and felt none of the horror and distress such an event would once have caused her . |
| 22 | Here in Jake 's splendid and tastefully furnished home was the very last place she had expected to be tonight . |
| 23 | No , it was n't the first time , but remembering what had happened previously , how he had kissed her and , worst of all , how she had responded , she knew it was the last place she would have chosen when she needed to keep a clear head ! |
| 24 | That was where he was herding them , and it was the last place she felt like going , especially now . |
| 25 | With one last cry she held him impossibly tight , her nails scoring his back , and knew even in her state of mindlessness that Leo had timed himself to her , that even in the grip of his own needs he had thought of her . |
| 26 | Alison says parties and dinner parties can be the last places she has a good time . |
| 27 | She was suddenly aware of approaching hurried footsteps , and scurried back into the last room she had passed , which was n't locked and turned out to be a storeroom for spare cables and bulbs for the lighting system . |
| 28 | This time tragedy struck : at the fifth last obstacle she fell and broke her neck , dying instantly . |
| 29 | In the last years she was one of the few people to visit her in her room . |
| 30 | But at the last moment she lost the desire to do so , because his face was not merely sad but forbidding , even hostile . |