Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] [vb past] [prep] the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such is the power of suggestion that that night as I neared the top of the staircase , my foot stumbled on the last step but one . |
| 2 | The war came nearer and my family went with the last train out of Maymyo , with hundreds of Anglo-Burman mothers and children proceeding northwards to Shwebo or Myitkyina for air evacuation to Assam . |
| 3 | But her voice quivered on the last word as she remembered the cold , dispassionate violence of the man in the alehouse . |
| 4 | He is confident he will gain the 6pc swing needed to secure the seat and says a Labour victory will ‘ finish off ’ what his colleague started at the last election in 1987 . |
| 5 | And his voice rose on the last two words . |
| 6 | It was already poured , and just as his hand closed on the last glass with pale gold contents , he caught sight of Meryl near the window with Gladys . |