Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] [prep] the last [noun] " in BNC.

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1 As the 1992 Art Materials Exhibition looms over the horizon , I would like to share my experience from the last exhibition and make a plea for the next .
2 As the 1992 Art Materials Exhibition looms over the horizon , I would like to share my experience from the last exhibition and make a plea for the next .
3 ‘ I changed my mind at the last minute . ’
4 I can change my mind at the last minute if I think the thing is n't watertight . ’
5 I 'd been so preoccupied with the physical results of my condition for the last hour that I 'd forgotten its other effects .
6 Er I think that , that my recollection of the last meeting was that if we could just knock together a Northumberland newsletter a unison newsletter that 's quite clearly coming from the three organizations that represent the membership in Northumberland it would be better than th this national stuff has one union on it , as I see it at the moment .
7 ‘ Jason has been my boss for the last year , and as far as I was concerned a reasonably good one .
8 Following my disclosure in the last issue that escalating costs and reduced financial expectations had forced the United States Tennis Association to contemplate a major re-think of plans for the rebuilding of Flushing Meadow , I hear that the French Federation has also run into problems over the upgrading and expansion of Roland Garros .
9 After putting up the tent , I sat outside , took the bandage off my shin for the last time , and undressed , before washing myself with a mug of water .
10 I could n't wait for the bell to ring at four in the afternoon when class would end and I could bang my lid for the last time before running all the way down the Whitechapel Road to help out on the barrow .
11 Before he boarded the team coach for the Midlands , Ironside said : ‘ I never expected I would get my chance in the last game of the season .
12 Before he boarded the team coach for the Midlands , Ironside said : ‘ I never expected I would get my chance in the last game of the season .
13 Besides , I set my tale in the last century and not today , because that is a convention which readers like . ’
14 Of course I was in a fever to hear again , but as his regiment was sent back into the line , I did not have further word till April , when he responded to that phrase with the comment : ‘ I think you would consider that this lily has grown into rather a thistle … seriously , though , I 'm not the same little lad you last saw ; I feel so much older because of my life in the last year . ’
15 I did have er upon my door from the last week in last term was a saying er , you know this one , I do n't know if you 've had this ?
16 I put my hand on the last page , and hesitated .
17 Lights began to go on in the dark houses , and I relished my melancholy to the last drop .
18 To be honest I ca n't remember , I know my lot on the last thing Wigan was doing two hundred and thirty an hour , so twelve times twenty , two hundred and thirty
19 My involvement in the last meeting of the Accident Investigation and prevention Division in 1979 was also rather significant for similar reasons .
20 I shall be obliged to you if you will be so good as to let the bearer have my copy of the last year 's Transactions , in which you will greatly oblige , Sir , your most humble servant , Philip Miller .
21 We in Britain owe so much to our American allies , not only for their support during the last war , but also today .
22 With a hopeless shrug of resignation she hurriedly put on a slim linen dress , which she had only thrown into her case at the last minute .
23 The courtesies to be shown are seen at their best when Aurora dances with her Prince in the last act of The Sleeping Beauty .
24 Thresher insiders believe the company changed its decision at the last minute after TODAY 's revelations yesterday .
25 Our last question concerned ‘ inaccessible by the young ’ ; And Eliot replied that , according to the OED , ‘ by ’ was a permissible use with ‘ inaccessible ’ as well as ‘ to ’ , and in his opinion its presence in the last line sounded better .
26 Julia , who called off their wedding at the last minute a year ago , was recently in Ireland with new lover Jason Patric .
27 Though the single-break flat-lidded coffin had made its entrance in the last quarter of the sixteenth century — the lead shell of Lady Elizabeth Howard ( d.1591 ) with appliqué lettering at Withyham , Sussex , is of this type , as is the pictorial representation of Sir Henry Unton 's 1596 coffin in the Unton portrait at the National Portrait Gallery , as well as a small sculptural representation of a coffin on the 1615 mural monument to Susan Kinges at Morston , Norfolk — the single-break gable-lidded shell seems to have been more popular .
28 Was he furious because she 'd led him on only to change her mind at the last minute ?
29 It 's not fair on a man if a women undresses and then changes her mind at the last minute .
30 ‘ Oh , she changed her mind at the last moment .
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