Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] [adv] [prep] [art] last " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was a fan of the BCR though he came to know it only in the last few years of its life . |
| 2 | We agreed to set it up at the last meeting . |
| 3 | And Steve obediently went off , taking with him a jar of Marmite in a garden trowel as a substitute for coal in a shovel , and he stood out there on the front porch in the cold listening to the silence and looking at the stars , waiting for them to let him in on the last stroke of Big Ben on the radio : a faint , feeble echo of some once meaningful ritual , though what it had meant or now could mean nobody there knew or had ever known . |
| 4 | I 've had to put it together over the last three days . |
| 5 | ‘ I want you to regard me not as the last Viceroy winding up the British Raj ’ , he told Nehru , ‘ but as the first to lead the way to the new India . ’ |
| 6 | want to get it out till the last minute in case it rained on it again . |
| 7 | ‘ He 's been my guardian spirit for years and it 's interesting to be forced to suppress all my own creativity in order to copy him slavishly to the last detail . |
| 8 | Another affronted retort rose to her lips , but bewildered honesty forced Isabel to choke it back at the last moment . |
| 9 | Will the Prime Minister take this opportunity to tell us why over the last year the unemployment record of his Government is by far the worst of any in the European Commuity ? |