Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [verb] the last [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kitty spoke of a new lair , a vixen biting the ear of a cub , an owl on a rat , the sound of a wolf although everyone knew the last wolf in England had been killed some years before about forty miles to the south , near the Bay . |
| 2 | then I had another I had another wee problem that I 'd been , I had been to see , and it was Doctor I had been , and the doctor that I saw the last time er I had three big bruises on my back , and she |
| 3 | But it 's still the same , but it 's the pains that I got the last time that 's gon it 's like sharp pains that 's going round about , just the insides of the nipple . |
| 4 | From afar it looks like the classical volcanic cone and it is with a mounting sense of excitement that I climb the last section of loose lava gravel and sharp , welded lava rock . |
| 5 | I think it was on that Sunday , but it may have been on the Sunday before , that I gave the last message from the Burma Broadcasting Service . |
| 6 | Flaherty said to be sure this was true , although he misremembered the last time they 'd been called on to supply them , it being all of two years since the Wolfkings had been driven out by the Gruagach . |
| 7 | However , we know from Yeats 's letters even more than his poems that he thought the last possibility for aristocratic ease in the arts had disappeared when Robert Gregory was shot down over France in 1915 . |
| 8 | So only Neil Webb left if you discount the goalkeeper and I remember the last time we did that Forest live game up at Bolton Forest had to use their both their substitutes in that game as well quite early on . |
| 9 | And I think the last start was about one o'clock in the morning and you got extra payments for the extra hours . |
| 10 | We talked until I missed the last train . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm not runnin' away like I did the last time . ’ |
| 12 | May I ask , Chairman , cos I missed the last meeting , what , what the , the subcommittee , is that the s an ad hoc subcommittee ? |
| 13 | And you had the last show , cos you 're the first looker . |
| 14 | Two years ago the same infections almost killed her and she received the last rites . |
| 15 | But if you remember the last time they sent us a parcel er |
| 16 | For example , if we make the last element of unc unity , and partition ( |
| 17 | If we pursue the last option then we might have a job proving that we have made a successful descent but at least it would then truly become a purely personal outing in a boat . |
| 18 | Before the right hon. Gentleman goes into overdrive , perhaps he will confirm that , in the past three months , industrial production has fallen faster in Germany , faster in France , faster in the United States and faster in Japan than it has in this country ; and that , if we take the last year as a whole , industrial production fell more in Japan , and more in Germany , than in the United Kingdom . |
| 19 | ( ii ) If we transfer the last column of A to the first position , we have a new matrix A ; with B unchanged we then have unc A is again of degeneracy 1 , B of degeneracy 2 ; but here C is of degeneracy 3 . |
| 20 | If we choose the last column above ( which excludes x1 and |
| 21 | ‘ The audience always begin laughing early on and they miss the last line , ’ said Den . |
| 22 | And you do n't fall asleep , as you are inclined to do if you try to be an absorbent sponge , soaking in what the authors say as if they had the last word . |
| 23 | Those last would not be required again until they reached the last mile of the return trip . |
| 24 | They could n't see the shepherd until they crossed the last rise but they could hear the sheepbells on the clear air . |
| 25 | Cornish people of southwestern England believe souls progress through various stages , reducing in size each time until they reach the last stage of the cycle before passing to Heaven or Hell . |
| 26 | ‘ But how does a young American lady — ’ and he stressed the last word slightly ‘ — come to be alone and seeking work in London ? ’ |
| 27 | Well you took all this sort of things in your stride but the next day we heard about these houses being knocked down , you see , and I think that 's the nearest I 've been to be killed but one day , one Saturday and that was in a daylight raid , one Saturday afternoon because , you see , I was off every afternoon but I worked till ten every night , you see , and er so erm but of course Hugh worked during the day and he was off in the evening , that 's why he used to come down to see , to see us and er he used to come in er you see and leave his lodgings and , oh be about nine o'clock and he spent the last day up there perhaps with his friends , have a chat , and er , you see , and but er and I was walking along it was called and suddenly a plane came over and I thought oh I expect it 's one of ours . |
| 28 | The trial proved an immense strain , and he spent the last months of his life confined to a wheelchair . |
| 29 | Panic leapt up in his breast and he swallowed the last quarter of an inch of his coffee , muddily tepid . |
| 30 | His voice had dropped lower and lower , until he was almost whispering , and he let the last question hang in the silence . |