Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [verb] [prep] the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | Part of the secret , as I tried to demonstrate in the last chapter , is the way in which we discuss again and again our ideas and proposals up and down the company , continuously adjusting , altering and probing our positions until , at last , we reach a conclusion which we can all accept and work to . |
| 2 | To a young doctor like myself , these were my ‘ valuables ’ — the Zeiss Ikon microscope in the scuffed leather case , its precious lenses protected from dust by silk covers ; the glass-lidded box of stainless-steel instruments — retractors , forceps , hooks , scissors and needles ; my much-thumbed copy of that heavy-going but essential tome , Gray 's Anatomy ; manuals of pharmacology and pharmacy ; Belding 's Textbook of Clinical Parasitology and Strong 's Prevention and Treatment of Tropical Diseases , both of which I 'd bought at the last minute in the hope that the young man in John Bell & Croyden in Wigmore Street was right when he assured me that they provided ‘ the answers to all tropical problems ’ ; and some bound volumes of the British Medical Journal which I had picked up cheap in Charing Cross Road . |
| 3 | Perversely , I enjoyed going beyond the last putt , and watching Augusta 's chairman , embodiment of America 's ‘ Establishment , ’ claim his share of world television with a speech of mind-bending banality . |
| 4 | One of the things I did learn from the last tour was to rehearse enough material so that you do n't get fed up playing the same things over and over again . ’ |
| 5 | I did not see the trophy presented this time as I had to leave before the last race . |
| 6 | The fields and clouds were the same as those I had seen for the last half hour . |
| 7 | The first day I got back to work , my foreman asked me what I had gained in the last twelve weeks . |
| 8 | I mean if I 'd have if I 'd have , if I had come to the last one |
| 9 | Having outlived Dean and Adams , Hopper indulged himself during the early seventies in autobiographical ego trips that nobody went to see like The Last Movie and The American Dreamer . |
| 10 | Thus the atoll , which had existed in the last interglacial , reformed in the Post-glacial period ( Fig. 8.35C ) . |
| 11 | The 66-year-old President , an agricultural economist by training , was generally regarded as a more approachable and pragmatic politician than his predecessor , and therefore better equipped to manage the process of political liberalization which had begun in the last months of Chiang 's presidency . |
| 12 | The local press , which had flourished during the last years of colonial rule , had been allowed to die . |
| 13 | Abruptly she let go of the last protective remnants of self-deception , but , fearing questions she could n't answer without exposing the full extent of her vulnerability , she rushed on , ‘ I felt guilty to begin with , but I did come to terms with it eventually , and anyway , my parents had encouraged me to stay with radio even though it would take me away from them and they knew what was happening to Dad . ’ |
| 14 | He turned an enquiring gaze upon her as she marched towards the house , but before following her he held out his hands to Millie as she went to jump off the last step , saying now in a low tone , ‘ It looks a good enough day ’ — he pointed to the back of the cart — ‘ what 's up ? ’ |
| 15 | It had taken her four years to get over him ; four years to get to the point where she could tell herself with some conviction that she had shaken off the last of the memories and was really ready to get on with her life . |
| 16 | Theda 's hands rubbed furiously at one of the posts of the bed in the second of the chambers she had tackled in the last unnumbered days . |
| 17 | She might have been trying to reach our Post for help , but she had crawled under the last parapet , and could go no farther . |
| 18 | She did not know exactly how she had arrived at the last overwhelming conviction , only that she had . |
| 19 | Of course it had belonged among those unhappy mad thoughts which she had had in the last days . |
| 20 | She reflected on how much she had changed since the last festival , less than seven weeks ago . |
| 21 | It took a very short time indeed , and with every step Jenna 's trembling lessened , although she refused to think about the last few moments in the barn with Alain . |
| 22 | He 'd come half past seven to eight to pay us as we came to work , to hand us the money we 'd earnt for the last week , always keeping about three days in hand . |
| 23 | Bush droned on about good and evil , right and wrong , Hitler , Munich , appeasement , using all the same phrases that most of us thought we had heard for the last time , after the revolutions of 1989 . |
| 24 | As we sat waiting for the last half-hour to grind away , the young Sheikh lifted the phone and telephoned his grandmother — his mother 's mother , not Sheikha Grandmother , who was still on her visit to her daughter . |
| 25 | It was a good ten minutes later when they seemed to come to the last of The Courts , for the houses dropped down to two-storey , then one-storey ; and then they were confronted by an iron open-work gate set in a brick wall all of seven feet high . |
| 26 | In Brightside the Unionist candidate had been specially demobilised for the election ; the Central Office agent for Yorkshire persuaded him to stand down , but it took a visit to Central Office before his supporters could be persuaded to support a Coalition Liberal that they had opposed at the last three elections . |
| 27 | Kenneth Baker , the party chairman , said yesterday that Cabinet ministers would play a stronger role in government than they had done over the last decade , and there would have to be public spending increases in the 1990s to pay for an improved quality of life . |
| 28 | They and the Carters were to have shared it that year with the computer analyst and his wife , but one of this couple 's children was involved in an accident and they had to cancel at the last minute . |
| 29 | As things turned out it was the Americans who made the greatest contribution , drawing heavily on the practice they had adopted in the last few years to incorporate the expertise available from industry and the unions into their CAB ( as they then were ) investigations . |
| 30 | This quarter the RIBA asked over 300 practices what marketing activities they had undertaken in the last 12 months . |