Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [verb] [prep] [art] last " in BNC.
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| 1 | And often , as I sat writing such poems that helped me cling to the last shreds of my many identities , I would suddenly sense that you were indeed approaching . |
| 2 | He also expressed irritation about the way Tony seemed to have let himself go in the last few months , since he had become unemployed . |
| 3 | PALEFACE David Mellor walked into a hall full of journalists last night … and found himself drinking in The Last Chance Saloon . |
| 4 | ‘ How well this social organization serves the purposes of those who seek to impose it depends in the last resort upon the conceptions in the minds of the men and women they recruit for these purposes . |
| 5 | After much deliberation and in great sorrow , the family of Don Antonio Beatillo , learned laureate and doctor , glory of the Faculty of Philosophy in the University of Naples , have resolved themselves to appeal against the last will and testament of their beloved and revered father , made in January last year , as being composed by the deceased when not in his right mind . ’ |
| 6 | And then , instead of hiding until the passage was clear , fitzAlan had given her a shove and told her to wait in the last cubicle . |
| 7 | ‘ As the good book says , let us start with the last . |
| 8 | Now Paul this is what I 've found out since you see , Paul erm said to them , Why suddenly this ? and he says , Oh we 've actually had them printed for the last two years but we 've never had the time to give them out . |
| 9 | Following the introduction of civil penalties for late filing of accounts from 1 July ( see ACCOUNTANCY , August , p 85 ) , Companies House has confirmed that the periods allowed for the filing of company accounts actually expire at midnight on the date in the last month for filing which corresponds to the last day of the company 's accounting reference period . |
| 10 | What a strange statement has come from Companies House confirming that the periods allowed for filing of company accounts actually expire at midnight on the date in the last month for filing which corresponds to the last day of the company 's accounting reference period ( see ACCOUNTANCY , October , p 98 ) . |
| 11 | Erm y'know erm it 's also erm perhaps interesting the way things have er have shifted you know in the last decade or so , like that thing that erm used to be on in the seventies , It Ai n't Half Hot Mum , with um a number of people pretending to be Indians and and exhibiting all the stereotypes y'know it ai n't half racist mum is probably more erm er in fact there was a book called It Ai n't Half Racist Mum that er Leicester University library had er y'know going on about exactly that you know the sort of y'know racism of comedy . |
| 12 | It was an act of needlessly gratuitous violence and one which ensured for good and all , that Meryl Streep would be declining to take the female lead in the film version of this one , just like she had with the last two . |
| 13 | Well if you go back in time if you go back if you go forward in time say twenty years you wo n't have anybody left from the last world war will you ? |
| 14 | ‘ Take a seat while I get you something to drink , ’ he invited , indicating what looked like the last word in comfort in the shape of a couch — one of a pair in the room . |
| 15 | The only thing that kept me going on the last lap of the journey was the rhythm of my steps . |
| 16 | ‘ And I 've asked you to cover for the last half-hour — that was selfish of me . ’ |
| 17 | In a business where fees are usually paid on a success only , rather than an hourly , basis , this may come a bit hard to people who have worked hard for two or three months on a deal only to see it fall at the last hurdle . |
| 18 | ‘ You think I arrived in the last shower or rain ? |
| 19 | ‘ How did you answer about the last — about presenting me to him ? ’ |
| 20 | Did you come to the last history meeting |
| 21 | In what follows we focus on the last of these — the possibility that debt finance may shift the burden by passing on a reduced capital stock — but the reader may like to consider the other two aspects . |
| 22 | None of them mentioned Richard or Hubert Molland ; nor did they refer to the last time they had all had tea together . |
| 23 | This last point is certainly not irrelevant , since the commemorative scroll sent to me from the Palace names Leslie as of the Parachute Regiment ; and under this unit did he appear for the last time in the Army List . |
| 24 | The king had himself portrayed on the last coinage of his reign , issued c. 1485 , wearing the closed crown of the emperor , at much the same time as Henry VII introduced the style into England ; but James went one better by having himself shown in a realistic three-quarters face portrait , thereby producing what the numismatist Ian Stewart has described as ‘ probably the earliest Renaissance coin portrait outside Italy ’ . |
| 25 | The implications are that , in a way similar to the class analyses we discussed in the last chapter , there is a major discrepancy between the ways in which social scientists conceptualise what is taking place and how people feel and understand what is taking place . |
| 26 | What had they said at the last ? |
| 27 | What had he meant about the last couple of lines of her notes ? |
| 28 | Would I be tough and wise-cracking at the end , or would they have to drag me screaming through the last door like a jelly-livered rat ? |
| 29 | Which of the other items on this list if any , have you collected in the last year ? |
| 30 | How many gigs have you missed in the last few months ? ’ |