Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] for [art] last [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Curtis , fully aware that this was the last night of the Prophet 's current crusade , had anticipated that he might choose it for a last hunting expedition , before retreating to his lair upstate . |
| 2 | One day soon she would see him for the last time . |
| 3 | That was it until handover on Monday , which she hoped would be enough time to shake off the cold that had been dogging her for the last couple of days . |
| 4 | Persistent colds , coughs and a temperature have dogged her for the last year . |
| 5 | Thomasino Boyd , who joined us for the last couple of years , and before that ( in Scots accent ) Doogie Rae . |
| 6 | Get them for a last bargain . |
| 7 | Bessie kissed me for the last time as I held tightly to her . |
| 8 | I kissed her for the last time as she lay in her hospital bed : the bedclothes were crisp and undisturbed , and she looked very clean , just as she would have wanted to ; and very small , because she was so old , and having started life none too big had ended up , at the age of ninety-one , not much bigger than a child . |
| 9 | Oh and I 'll have one for the last card . |
| 10 | And on sex he notes : ‘ The older women are best because they always think they may be doing it for the last time . ’ |
| 11 | And on sex he notes : ‘ The older women are best because they always think they may be doing it for the last time . ’ |
| 12 | Would some lingering affection for the man she had once married have driven her to France to see him for the last time ? |
| 13 | Though he was more like his old self , many suspected they were seeing him for the last time . |
| 14 | But I 've not been taking them for the last week . |
| 15 | He 's been hiding me for the last couple of days . ’ |
| 16 | You saw him for the last time in 1959 . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'm telling you for the last time , Harvey . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'm telling you for the last time , Liz , get up and let's go home . |
| 19 | Yeah , and then from that they 've now got these fucking things that show the direction , the sign , the speed and oh its incredible sonar 's been going longer than radar , but only just we were the world leader 's now , I mean we cos we , cos we preserve fuel , we knew exactly , they left it for the last minute to get up there and intercept them . |
| 20 | She stood up and looked round the room as though she were leaving it for the last time . |
| 21 | Two there 's the one with Judith and I and then you join us for the last session . |
| 22 | Tony finds several packets of banana custard that is hot and sweet ; it tastes bloody awful and neither Tony nor I like it , none the less he fights me for the last helping . |