Example sentences of "last [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the last minutes she had been talking with extreme rapidity in a light high voice . |
| 2 | In 1816 Mrs Hawkes , a pious lady who had herself been a convert of Richard Cecil 's , was called to the death-bed of a Mr Vaughan , whose last hours she described in a letter to a friend : |
| 3 | Before the last cottage she paused as a woman appeared in the doorway . |
| 4 | Although in this last case we should note that it is much harder to talk of the sentence being ‘ wrong ’ ; there are circumstances when people validly violate semantic norms , as we shall see . |
| 5 | erm in the last case you mean ? |
| 6 | I give you my word there will be one , if it 's the last case I am allowed to handle . ’ |
| 7 | In the last instance we have social regression . |
| 8 | In this last instance we have social regression . |
| 9 | In the vague reference to " his needs " in the last sentence we even get a glimpse of why the question of money is so important for him . |
| 10 | Before she could puzzle over his rather cryptic last sentence he continued , ‘ I do n't know whether you noticed , but the doge was wearing it in the second of his portraits . ’ |
| 11 | Now er in the last sentence you 've got five marks to give for spelling and punctuation . |
| 12 | During that last sentence I was at Styal again and then at Askham Grange . |
| 13 | To clear this last hurdle I was forced to queue up outside a shed with a number of soldiers . |
| 14 | As he said : ‘ If I 'm deciding on whom I want to live with for fifty years — well , that 's the last decision I want my head to be ruled by my heart . ’ |
| 15 | Of the last decision he says : ‘ Most of the winter I never see daylight . |
| 16 | On our last afternoon we went back to Tromsø to see a man about a dog . |
| 17 | ‘ One of the last times I saw my mother , I was borrowing money off her . |
| 18 | When Nicola had despatched the last brick she began to yell loudly . |
| 19 | The last chit I hired not only got herself — well , you know , with the coachman , but made off with some of my best lace when I turned her away . |
| 20 | For the last hour they had done justice to Molly 's superb cooking . |
| 21 | In the last hour they 've added , ’ there was a delay in putting information on the computer records . |
| 22 | Down towards the last hour I 'm the last person to drop off just trying to leave them with as many positive thoughts and perhaps talking quietly to the odd individual . |
| 23 | He had n't expected this precipitate visit and in the last hour he had bawled out everyone in sight . |
| 24 | The last branch I was in was very small , and I got a lot of feedback from them . |
| 25 | At the last judgement we shall not be asked how many books we have read but how we have lived . |
| 26 | On the fourth day Jennifer put together every last farthing they possessed and went across to Fowey to visit the apothecary , returning with a malodorous syrup which her mother vomited up within seconds of swallowing . |
| 27 | Last March he suffered a second agonising defeat in the Gold Cup when Cool Ground proved just too good , and he then lost his French crown when the ground at Auteuil for this July 's Grand Steeplechase came up unsuitably soft and he could only struggle round in eighth place . |
| 28 | The last bit we did was only the small numbers . |
| 29 | At our last Directorate it was noted that there had been further difficulties with unauthorised visitors and it was agreed that there was a need for additional security between the entrance foyer and offices . |
| 30 | But had the Labour Party won the last Election they too would be facing hefty tax bills and precisely the same threat to their lavish standards of living . |