Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [prep] the last [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | • If you make a move that takes you beyond the last circle on the grid , you must count back to complete that move before continuing forward with the next move . |
| 32 | The man heard or sensed him at the last moment and turned with his hands coming up to a fighting stance but Maxim feinted through them and hit him low in the stomach . |
| 33 | 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 . |
| 34 | Come and clean my windows and I owed him from the last time . |
| 35 | If you want to leave it to the last minute you can also bring your items to the Community Centre on the morning . |
| 36 | But I do n't want to leave it to the last game of the season . |
| 37 | Only we I do n't , I do n't know about you but I do n't want to leave it until the last minute |
| 38 | Again after the middle ten lines there is another break which takes us into the last section of the poem with the words ‘ at last ’ . |
| 39 | And on sex he notes : ‘ The older women are best because they always think they may be doing it for the last time . ’ |
| 40 | And on sex he notes : ‘ The older women are best because they always think they may be doing it for the last time . ’ |
| 41 | We came very close to doing it at the last election . |
| 42 | Hundreds of soldiers doing it after the last war — and airmen . |
| 43 | Would some lingering affection for the man she had once married have driven her to France to see him for the last time ? |
| 44 | Though he was more like his old self , many suspected they were seeing him for the last time . |
| 45 | He led her to the last desk in the line , on which she could see a sheaf of pink sheets of paper . |
| 46 | You will remember that we met him in the last commercial . |
| 47 | Harry Carpenter came up to interview him and asked him about the last putt . |
| 48 | But I 've not been taking them for the last week . |
| 49 | Please do n't leave them to the last minute . |
| 50 | Please do n't leave them to the last minute . |
| 51 | Please do n't leave them to the last minute . |
| 52 | Please do n't leave them to the last minute . |
| 53 | Please do n't leave them to the last minute . |
| 54 | He 's been hiding me for the last couple of days . ’ |
| 55 | Erm just to refer you to the last sentence , paragraph four three , er to assure members of the Committee that those er representation whether the erm application . |
| 56 | You saw him for the last time in 1959 . |
| 57 | IN A POEM called History Peter Porter piles a number of state crimes — reminiscent of those attributed to the Stasi — on top of one another in a seemingly solid pillar of evidence , only to explode it in the last line with the simple but logical detonation : ‘ Their story will not be told . ’ |
| 58 | Well I saw it in the last time it was in here on Central and it was n't , it did n't come on ! |
| 59 | You could use it er , in the reverse of the way that the theory suggests , which you can actually leave it on the last diary page where you have something on your to do list that you have n't completed . |
| 60 | Manager Joe Royle said : ‘ We will leave it until the last minute to give him every chance . ’ |