Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [prep] [pron] last [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Almost the only thing he could think of coherently as he peered at the Dutch tiles and crazy paving was that according to his last statement of account he had 67 12s. 9d. in the bank .
2 " I made that excuse for him last year when he 'd been with us six months .
3 The next day we landed at Mackay and re-fuelled for our last leg .
4 ‘ He came over and trained with us last week and he was looking fit .
5 I leave the car where I have parked it and walk to my last appointment .
6 First , how far the skills and experience acquired and used in your last job match up to those necessary to the new job , so that the transition will be relatively simple and there will not be too much disruption while you learn the ropes .
7 There were a number of clues available to Robson : if West had still held the guarded queen of clubs he would almost certainly have kept and exited with his last spade ; if he had held both the king and queen of clubs he would have been equally likely to win the first club with the queen ; and , from what had happened so far , it looked as though West had started with more clubs than his partner .
8 He was now in India , and judging by his last letter he appeared to be enjoying life out there .
9 A big-built Scottish woman , who has been playing pool in the other section of the pub , crosses over to the east side of the bar and puts in her last orders .
10 By 1968 , the clean-cut image of lads in suits and neatly trimmed hair was definitely for the birds , but not the Byrds , and the Monkees had all but swung from their last branch ; the exploitation of four young men who were plucked from audition lines and manufactured into an internationally famous foursome was all but over .
11 ‘ The only reason I so much as spoke to you last night , ’ he said through his teeth , ‘ was because of my grandmother . ’
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