Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [prep] the last [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fortunately I do n't have to do the really dangerous stuff , buteven backstage in the wings I did have a few things falling about me on the last day in Manchester . |
| 2 | It was close in the end but it might have been even tighter if Colbert had n't made way for them on the last stage . |
| 3 | I 've done lots of work for them in the last couple |
| 4 | Particular highlights for me over the last year have included : |
| 5 | As well as coaching many of Britain 's leading international crews , Spracklen is a key member of the Oxford University team , and he will be returning from Canada in March to look after them for the last fortnight before the Boat Race . |
| 6 | ‘ I felt I might have passed the pair in front of me on the last lap but what was the point , I had no chance of winning and this is a tough circuit . ’ |
| 7 | They secured eight but also lost three wickets including two run outs , one of them off the last ball . |
| 8 | We have studied the sediment from the bottom of Loch Ness and Loch Morar to discover whether the sea entered either of them after the last ice age . |
| 9 | So the paper you 've got in front of you from the last meeting then . |
| 10 | Thank god he s having more shots now too — that s been my only criticism of him over the last year , now he s looking to shoot more , and scoring ! |
| 11 | He did quite well out of it during the last year . |
| 12 | Had Louis been inclined to forget the destiny his father had mapped out for him , he would have been forcefully reminded of it in the last decade of his reign , when his chief adviser was Suger , abbot of St Denis between 1122 and 1151 , a man of humble birth consumed by a passionate devotion to the cause of monarchy in the Carolingian mould . |
| 13 | It 's been so dreary for you in the last couple of weeks . |
| 14 | And after all the running around I 've done for you in the last couple of days . |
| 15 | What if I decide against it at the last minute ? |
| 16 | Kernaghan , seeking a transfer this summer from relegated Middlesbrough , said : ’ I 'm pleased and relieved because I blamed myself for the goal Albania scored against us in the last match . |
| 17 | How much business have you done with them over the last year ? |
| 18 | Towards the end of ‘ Stately As a Galleon ’ I get cramp in both feet and they curl up under me like the last Empress 's fingernails and stay cramped through waltzing finale , curtain calls and notes from director , friends and husband . |
| 19 | A catapult lives with you until the last moment ; it stays tensed in your hands , breathing with you , moving with you , ready to leap , ready to sing and jerk , and leaving you in that dramatic pose , arms and hands outstretched while you wait for the dark curve of the ball in its flight to find its target , that delicious thud . |
| 20 | ‘ Could n't bear to part with it until the last minute . ’ |
| 21 | I went back to my office and shut myself into it for the last time . |
| 22 | I soloed back up it in the last light , an orgy of vertical but easy bridging on huge holds . |
| 23 | He went away a lot , with his work , but he 's been back with us for the last year or so , off and on . ’ |
| 24 | If you were with us at the last occasion of this sort , the last centenary lecture on Gerter , given by Professor Corby , you will remember on that occasion erm he provided a focus of illumination in a period of power cuts , economic gloom and all the rest of it . |
| 25 | If I cry , the Monster cries — more piteously , longer , louder — not because it is sad , of course not , never out of sorrow or pity , no , merely because Jimbo has cried and thereby been noticed , for his self These scraps of attention the Monster would take from me to the last smile , the last nod , the last little pat on the head . |
| 26 | The familiar house , the carpeted hall , were before him for the last time . |
| 27 | he 's not , he 's not , he 's not a , he 's not stupid , Christopher , he , he 's certainly not stupid , and er he must have seen , I mean I assume he keeps his bank statements , I mean I 'm afraid we have one or two bank statements which show thousands of pounds that he 's received from us over the last year erm and , you know , he ca n't blind because they 've all gone through his bank account , you know , he must |
| 28 | Again this was reported to you at the last meeting of this Committee . |
| 29 | The sooner I 've seen your grandmother , the sooner I can say goodbye to you for the last time . |
| 30 | As she was saying good-bye to him on the last day , she knew that they would n't see each other again for a long time . |