Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pron] last [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | They wept on their last day of work : ‘ I felt terrible ’ ; ‘ it seemed as though you were suddenly cut off from life . ’ |
| 5 | Lewis spent Christmas Day 1931 transcribing this ditty for Warnie , who had returned for his last spell of service in Shanghai . |