Example sentences of "[verb] she [prep] the last [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Mota , from Portugal , suffered yet again with a mysterious stomach complaint , which affected her during the last world championships .
2 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 .
3 Persistent colds , coughs and a temperature have dogged her for the last year .
4 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 .
5 He led her to the last desk in the line , on which she could see a sheaf of pink sheets of paper .
6 Walking slowly up and down the old stone terrace , Laura tried to empty her mind — to banish the sick feelings of fear and apprehension which had haunted her during the last week .
7 Miss Coldharbour had recruited her at the last moment to help serve supper for Canon Wheeler 's guests who included the Bishop and the Earl of Medewich and Markham .
8 Suzanne Greenhill , 20 , had been blindfolded — depriving her of the last sense she could have used to identify the attacker — and her underwear had been stuffed in her mouth .
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