Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [vb past] [prep] the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were two more changes before she finally boarded for the last leg . |
| 2 | After re-packing her case , she fervently hoped for the last time , she had a wash , and because it looked sunny and warm outside dressed in a skimpy vest with a blouse over the top , and a rather strange Fifties-style skirt covered in poppies . |
| 3 | She also cared in the last years of her career . |
| 4 | McAllister , ’ and she almost tripped over the last bit , but hoped he had not noticed . |
| 5 | Thinking it was probably one of the maids , she hastily did up the last button and went to open it . |
| 6 | She half smiled in the last threads of gold that smouldered in the sky . |
| 7 | Indeed , as we also saw in the last chapter , one recent writer ( Jenkins , 1984 ) portrays Beccaria 's postponement of the positivist revolution as being anti-radical and supportive of existing authoritarian rulers . |
| 8 | They only came in the last winter of the war , just a few months . |
| 9 | It only improved in the last years of the nineteenth century with the company 's realization of a profitable traffic in middle-class commuters living at the seaside while working in Manchester and Liverpool . |
| 10 | It was stupid — but it just seemed like the last straw , Tom , and what can be done ? |
| 11 | As he later explained , he deliberately dallied over the last few runs in order to let his partner , Peach , reach his double-century . |
| 12 | THE SO-CALLED disease-of-the-month club is currently mustering legislative support for an objective that it almost reached in the last session of congress : creation of a separate headquarters for arthritis research at the National Institutes of Health ( NIH ) . |