Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [conj] the last [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then I realised that I was actually contemplating accepting the senator 's offer , and I told myself that the last thing I needed this summer was to babysit two spoilt rich-kid junkies . |
| 2 | in London B T H or G E C , I remember he told us that the last time you know because he was n't called up in the war he was reserved . |
| 3 | Well , ter cut a long story short 'e ends up tellin' me that the last bloke was put off fer losin' too much time an' I might be a bad time-keeper as well , what wiv me injuries . |
| 4 | On the second morning , Miss Honey received by registered post a letter from a firm of local solicitors informing her that the last will and testament of her late father , Dr Honey , had suddenly and mysteriously turned up . |
| 5 | About sixty former members of the BUF joined him and the last phase of his career in English politics had begun . |
| 6 | Constance did not understand him but the last word , strangely rhythmic and warm to her ears , stuck in her mind . |
| 7 | ‘ But I can assure you that the last thing the Football League wants is a repeat of the Maidstone situation where a club struggles through the summer to a new season and then folds . |
| 8 | ‘ You 'd better tell them that the last showing has just started , Bill , ’ said Mr Brickley . |
| 9 | er and of course I 've known Walter for years but I do n't know his wife , I 've never met his wife and of course not being able to get out into the street now , I should get out for about two years after I lost my husband and then I got this er awful pain nobody knows unless they have it er this arthritis in my knees , you see , and erm and then I found that it was too much for me to er otherwise I used to walk up to the post box road and I used to count the steps , three hundred and something steps there and three hundred and something back , you see , and to the front door , you see , but I , I ca n't do it now but I have with help and I went out last year with er Mrs and er twice we went to Dulwich which I enjoyed and so did she and the last time we went to and er we had our lunch and we went to see my cousins at West Suffolk and and , and then came home again , you see , and that 's the only time I went out last year and usually I used to go to for a day and I am hoping that if I , I am hoping , well you can only hope , that I might perhaps go so out one Sunday , once , just once in the , you see , because er , th that 's when when you 're old you 've got to keep , you 've got to hope for something |
| 10 | To take it as the last word would be as unwise as putting one 's faith in a hand-out from the Department of the Interior . |
| 11 | I 've tried to tell him that the last thing Project Eden needs is an Administrator who 's crazy as a dakkabug , but will he listen to me ? ’ |