Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pron] last [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If , however , you are considering applying during your last year at school for deferred entry , you are strongly advised to consult the faculty in which you intend to study . |
| 2 | Felix 's wife started talking about poetry , which she wrote , while Felix shouted about his last visit to Castro . |
| 3 | I mentioned in my last letter to Fiona that Lord Lovat had been badly wounded during an attack on the enemy positions on the evening of 12th June . |
| 4 | We were caught on our last night at Dhundi by the first of seven days bad weather . |
| 5 | Among other matters , the G-7 Finance Ministers reaffirmed their concern over the yen , although they noted that it had stabilized since their last meeting in April . |
| 6 | Almost the only thing he could think of coherently as he peered at the Dutch tiles and crazy paving was that according to his last statement of account he had 67 12s. 9d. in the bank . |
| 7 | Midway through Friday afternoon , the early-shift newsreader watched the red transmission light die on her last bulletin of the day and sat back from the microphone with a sigh of relief . |
| 8 | When it came to her last day at home , she had gone out into the garden for a final look round . |
| 9 | I think for example of the sensitivity of some of the small market towns , the point for example that was made to us last week about the sensitivity one settlement with which I 've come increasingly familiar over the last fortnight and that is town centre . |
| 10 | He met Agnes , the brazen lady-in-waiting , whom he had met on his last visit to Kinghorn . |
| 11 | TYNEMOUTH beer festival had a curfew imposed on it last month by local magistrates . |
| 12 | I thought : what did he see as his last sight on earth ? |
| 13 | Now for the really crucial thing — when you 're reducing your time , all you care about is improving upon your last effort for the same distance . |
| 14 | ‘ America has a lot of assets , ’ he claimed in his last speech to congress , ‘ we should cash in on them . ’ |
| 15 | Peter Shore , who served as its last secretary of state , believes that the creation of the DEA was an attempt to remedy ‘ the principal defect of Cabinet government , as well as the principal defect of economic policy , which was the overweening power of the Treasury , which was too great for … the full collective work of a Cabinet ’ . |
| 16 | As I said the er , the trolley buses were being phased out and the buses , the motor buses were being used more than ever and I do n't know the date of the last trolley bus running but I well remember it being reported time , it was the erm , bus was packed on its last journey from Electric House and people were photographing it . |
| 17 | Very shortly before Maxwell embarked on his last voyage on the Lady Ghislaine he was discussing legal matters with the Legal Director of Mirror Group Newspapers , Arthur Davidson . |
| 18 | Compared to their last visit to the UK and the big Astoria show — which was OK , but felt overlong — this turns out to be a near-perfect delivery of their contrasting semi-dumb music and ultra-sharp attitude . |
| 19 | Remembering the knife he had displayed on our last night in Valladolid , I took fright and denied it . |
| 20 | I was not of that minority , but the argument sharpened my concern for the education of the most-talented pupils — a concern that was to run through my last years in Banbury and into my work in Oxford . |
| 21 | ‘ Yet we won in Bucharest with a great Jimmy Quinn goal and earned the point we needed in our last game at Wembley to go through — thanks to a brilliant goalkeeping display from Pat Jennings . |
| 22 | It 's just like , no two girls got expelled from my last school for drugs but I think they actually one of them gave it to the other one but they were both expelled . |
| 23 | But I looked to a philosophical point of view more comprehensive even than that of the early Collingwood , and I thought I had found the germ of it in the lectures he delivered in my last year on ‘ Nature and Mind ’ . |
| 24 | It will total about £59 million , which compares favourably with the measly £3 million that Labour spent in its last year in office . |
| 25 | Osvaldo , said Martinho , had only really bloomed in his last year at the seminary and — truly — in Africa . |
| 26 | The cameraman and sound recordist were mugged on their last day in Pittsburgh . |
| 27 | MOTORBIKE champ Craig Mason died in his last race before quitting the sport . |
| 28 | I have been a lifelong Labour supporter , but I have to say that under the present Government I was able to save in my last years at work without seeing my savings disappear in inflation . |
| 29 | It is this later Holiday which most recognise and her admirers point to her last years as her most compelling . |
| 30 | If the exiled son were a soldier and died suddenly , as so often happened , a brother officer would write of his last hours to the sorrowing parents ( see chapter seven ) . |