Example sentences of "[pron] [noun pl] [prep] the last [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 It 's been a great weight on my shoulders over the last month .
2 I never paid my bills for the last month
3 ‘ It is that Fincara will send me and my sisters into the last battle between the light and the dark ; and that we will conquer .
4 You have n't been out of my thoughts since the last time we made love .
5 Of course , the experiment was not conclusive — as any inspection of my criteria in the last chapter would make clear .
6 It would be helpful to the planning committee if Q.T. could let us know their views on the last year 's programme .
7 Some approached the Santuario on their knees for the last part of the journey , saying the Rosary and imploring the Madonna 's help .
8 Most Christians would claim that the celebration of the Eucharist is one of the most important moments within Christianity , both in its beginnings at the Last Supper and in the life of the Church today .
9 The almost wordless scene in which Ma Joad , packing her belongings for the last time , comes across a pair of old earrings and tries them on , recalling some long forgotten happiness , is as touching as anything he ever directed .
10 Still , he 's a married man , and his wife is in her seventh month , from what I hear : that 's why she had to send her apologies at the last moment
11 He was going to say it … he had to be leading up to ‘ I love you ’ … and she felt she was clinging on by her fingernails to the last trace of hope , her hands clutching the door-jamb behind her to stop herself sliding down and begging him to say it .
12 He praised LASMO Pakistan for its achievements in the last year , especially the successful gas negotiations on the Kadanwari field [ see page 2 ] and the partnership with Shell in Block 36 , Northern Pakistan .
13 To medieval man it meant a process reserved for the preservation of the corpses of the important , so that they might sleep uncorrupted in their tombs until the Last Day , when body and soul would be reunited to appear before God for His judgement .
14 Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd , speaking on BBC 's The World This Weekend , said : ‘ On past form a great many members are looking to make up their minds at the last moment .
15 Gallup , for example , claimed that 37 per cent of voters made up their minds in the last week and 10 per cent decided on the day of the election .
16 It was an astonishing performance in a first-rate production , and it led directly to her casting as Kitty MacVurrich in The Long Roads , McGrath 's TV film about a cancer-stricken Skye woman and her husband , visiting their children for the last time .
17 The larks carry their tongues to the last atom
18 The manufacture of pins continued at Frogmarsh until 4 May 1934 , when the company closed its doors for the last time .
19 The Frank Cooper Marmalade Shop , which forever linked the name Oxford with marmalade , is closing its doors for the last time .
20 A hospital for pensioners that opened almost a hundred years ago is about to close its doors for the last time .
21 Eleven people will lose their jobs when the slaughter house closes its doors for the last time on November 26 .
22 But today it closes its doors for the last time .
23 How one charity helps another The Goodwill charity shop in Court Arcade , Darlington , closed its doors for the last time on Tuesday after four years of fund-raising for a children 's village in India .
24 EMPLOYEES of Courtaulds Fibres , Canada , gathered for a Christmas party in December , just weeks after the viscose rayon plant closed its doors for the last time .
25 This year , as the locos dropped their fires for the last time , the cash bag totalled more than £1243.72 .
26 28th August 1930 was a sad day , as the islanders closed their doors for the last time .
27 Univel 's soon-to-be sole owner declined to release the number of units its subsidiary has shipped but said they Revenues for the last quarter came to $6m .
28 Wim Beeren , the Director of the Stedelijk museum in Amsterdam who , in the face of deafening criticism , has always defended the restoration , admitted that Goldreyer did not bother to inform him in time about his plans for the last phase of the restoration in which the painted surface was to be treated .
29 And although a lot of the very late ones , in the way of paintings , I do n't care for , many of his drawings in the last period of his life were wonderful , were n't they ?
30 Cameron turned back into the house for his cloak and tried to order his thoughts as the last fogginess of sleep evaporated in his head .
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