Example sentences of "last [noun] see " in BNC.

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1 And at last Isabel saw who it was .
2 The last Penny saw of him was his small form flying jerkily over the meadows towards a distant wood .
3 And last January saw the collapse of New Zealander Allen Hawkins ' Equiticorp after it had bought Britain 's GPG , parent of venerable institutions including Guinness Peat and Guinness Mahon .
4 Finance Ministers and central bank officials from 46 member countries of the Islamic Development Bank ( IDB ) held their 17th annual meeting in the Iranian capital , Tehran , on Nov. 10-11 [ for last meeting see p. 39031 ] .
5 He should have been at the airport last evening to see Elsa Lawrence and her children off and the casket .
6 His last years saw in Maupeou 's attack on the parlements a real effort to give the monarchy more freedom of action , and in the radical fiscal expedients of the Abbé Terray ( Controller-General , 1770–74 ) a partially successful attempt to ease its financial position .
7 Last years saw our profit before interest reach £38.6 million .
8 Last chance to see the IRAS Comet
9 Sadly , last Sunday saw Lovejoy 's fling end abruptly as Ms Lumley set off , once more , for Peru .
10 They had six hours twenty minutes to survive , but the first hour of the last day saw five wickets crash for 78 .
11 The last day saw me a very sombre person , I was going to miss the island and its attractions .
12 As far as everyone knew , he had been the last person to see Zambia at the Club .
13 The last person to see his wife and children alive was Joe Zerboni who had played bridge with them at a Halloween party at a California country club .
14 ‘ He was the last person to see your boyfriend here in Beirut .
15 Ronnie Swayne : probably the last person to see Glynn alive apart from his killer .
16 ‘ It seems likely that you were the last person to see Glynn alive , apart from his murderer , but at the moment I am more interested in what you can tell me about him — the sort of man he was — and about his friends and his enemies as far as you can .
17 She wondered whether to ask Mrs Baggley if she realised that she might have been the last person to see or hear of Paul Gray alive .
18 The last person to see Miss Mallender prior to her disappearance . ’
19 And you were the last person to see her .
20 ‘ And you , Shallot , were the last person to see him alive ? ’
21 Is n't it strange that you , Benjamin , were the last person to see Selkirk alive ! ’
22 At first he had under-estimated the consequences of Iraq 's invasion of Kuwait , returning to Baghdad from Britain last October to see two post-graduate students through their exams .
23 as if this were not enough , the last quarter saw some of the most exciting football I have ever witnessed and certainly vindicated the raising of admission prices by 68 per cent .
24 But first sport , and the biggest crowd of the season at the Manor Ground last night saw one of Oxford 's best wins of the season .
25 A PACKED public meeting last night saw the launch of a major six month campaign to keep quarry traffic on the rails and off the roads .
26 THE smallest crowd of the season at McDiarmid Park last night saw St Johnstone recover from a backs-to-the-wall first half to take two vital points from Falkirk .
27 Naas Botha , of all people , turned up at Rodney Parade last night to see the Barbarians ' annual autumn get-together .
28 Situation : A and B are friends who had planned to meet at 6 o " clock last night to see a film .
29 Hundreds of people crowded into St Briavels church last night to see the Reverend Patricia Pinkerton installed in her new parish .
30 ARBROATH struck four times at Bayview last night to see off the Scottish Cup challenge of East Fife and advance to a home quarter-final tie with Rangers .
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