Example sentences of "last [noun pl] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The emotions of the last minutes had drained her . |
| 2 | Although he knew it was to soothe himself rather than a.i. ’ he spent a few last minutes communing with Thoth by neural link , explaining yet again how grieved he was to have to ask it to give its ‘ life ’ for him . |
| 3 | Indeed his last hours had been made even more bitter by the news that John had deserted him . |
| 4 | I knew then that my last hours had come but was in such agony that I began to wish they would come sooner . |
| 5 | Another breakthrough came with the discovery that the Swindon nightclub where Mrs Campbell spent her last hours had filmed her leaving the premises on its security video . |
| 6 | Another breakthrough came with the discovery that the Swindon nightclub where Mrs Campbell spent her last hours had filmed her leaving the premises on its security video . |
| 7 | Warbirds of Norway 's Vampire , former Swiss J-1146 , has gained nose-art in character with the odd nose her last operators gave her . |
| 8 | Ramsay waited impatiently after the last riders had passed out of sight . |
| 9 | After the victory at the sea the triumph song , but hardly have the last notes escaped Israel 's lips than we come to the second story of complaint ( 15.22–7 ) . |
| 10 | As the last notes lingered in the cathedral , the mayoral procession reformed and returned — accompanied by applause from the congregation — to their places in the nave . |
| 11 | One of our last shipments went straight to Paris : Special Train 767 , to Bourget-Drancy . |
| 12 | One if its last acts had been to settle debts amounting to £182,500,000 ( US$297,657,500 as at April 2 , 1990 ) in an out-of-court settlement with 36 creditors on March 30 . |
| 13 | In an interview with La Stampa yesterday , Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA chief Carlo De Benedetti condemned the pervasive system of political corruption , which he says obligated Olivetti to pay bribes or lose contracts , as ‘ having reduced Italy to a state worse than the Third World ’ : he says that at the last shareholders meeting earlier this year , he had to deny any bribery because he could n't preview information to the shareholders that was intended for the legal authorities ; he says that facing the judges , he felt liberated from a weight — ‘ then I felt a sense of justice — it pleased me to be there , ’ noting that when the company decided that the demands of the postal service for slush funds became too extreme and Olivetti stopped paying , ‘ we did n't sell another machine to the Post — we had arrived at the absurd point where , if we did n't pay , we did n't work and the moment we quit paying , we did n't work any more ’ . |
| 14 | Organised resistance to William in Scotland ceased , though the last clans did not formally submit for another 18 months . |
| 15 | It hardly fell into the same category as the calculated thuggery of the last Lions tour or the almost casual butt which recently reduced the Great Britain Rugby League team to 12 men . |
| 16 | In fact , I was in one of the very last groups to leave Port Said for Cyprus . |
| 17 | We rushed up the last pitches having learned a lesson — next time I 'll take a windbreaker , even on a hot day . |
| 18 | When a bargain has been struck the TOPIC ( " Teletext Output of Price Information on Computer " ) price displays are altered to show the last trades made . |
| 19 | Yet while the last tsars sought to preserve the traditional order Russia was undergoing a process of profound economic and social change . |
| 20 | In the silence of his shelter he was finally letting the true sorrow he felt for all that had happened in the last months come into him , and he was beginning to grieve . |
| 21 | More than ten thousand British fans travelled to Barcelona last months to witness the first Olympics to be held in Europe for 20 years . |
| 22 | Chekov 's melodramatic last words sum up the film quite neatly : ‘ Well I guess this is goodbye ! ’ |
| 23 | As recorded by British Broadcasting Corporation ( BBC ) monitoring , he had made the observation that we humans have a short life , and tomorrow we are all going to die , but his last words touched on the need for a return to democracyand for Islam to keep pace with modernization : We see the states that have overtaken us : what did they overtake us with ? |
| 24 | Ryan 's last words had been disturbing . |
| 25 | The last words had the force of a command , almost of a warning . |
| 26 | She believed what she had said and yet those last words had a curious prophetic ring — as if somewhere in those uncharted seas which man calls Time , they were echoing and re-echoing into the future . |
| 27 | Forest 's last words had been accompanied by a guffaw , and Edward 's half-formed comment was drowned by the slamming of the door as the grinning man left . |
| 28 | Her last words had been spoken very portentously , and I rewarded them with a dubious shrug . |
| 29 | The last words had simply slipped out . |
| 30 | It was several seconds before it dawned on her that his last words had been spoken in Italian . |