Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [art] last [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( If you tried to swap the last column of a table without doing so you would jumble up your text ) |
| 2 | He 'd spoken the last words in Italian , and in Italian as fluent and colloquial as his own she answered , ‘ I 'm sorry about that . |
| 3 | It seemed to represent the last word as a model for other cities to follow . |
| 4 | It was widely believed that there were no human fossils , so the recent appearance of humankind seemed to represent the last step in the ascent of life . |
| 5 | We called ploughing the last furrow in a stetch taking up the brew . |
| 6 | As they prepared to leave and resume their homeward journey , Jack decided to take a last look around the parcels office . |
| 7 | He decided to spend the last hour at the local pub . |
| 8 | The drama was not quite over because all three players managed to hit the last green in two shots , and Harley , by dint of a nice kick forward when the ball pitched , was no more than six feet from the hole . |
| 9 | The regulars and the heavy mob from Fleet Street arrived and we just managed to catch the last train to Cambridge . |
| 10 | He managed to complete the last lap with a flourish in a little under a minute , opening up a 10-metre lead down the back straight . |
| 11 | Dana was opinionated and liked to have the last word in an argument . |
| 12 | He had won the last contest on points , thank God , but he knew that a series of ‘ X ’ films , and the suggestive posters that were essential to their promotion , would give Father Whatsisname just the chance he wanted to point the accusing finger . |
| 13 | By the time she had rolled the last lump of dog food into the canal , the sun was beginning to rise in the east . |
| 14 | The dream grew faster and faster and more and more desperate , because he knew that he had to reach the last box before the end of the day . |
| 15 | He wondered if Gilbert White had seen the last edition of the Dictionary ( the seventh , 1756–59 ) where he had incorporated all the latest improvements in the culture of the cantaloupe melon . |
| 16 | Morgan had missed the last flight to Brussels the previous evening . |
| 17 | In an exhausting , exhilarating fortnight , they moved round the country triumphing gloriously at Cheshire , being demoralized at Cirencester , where they drew against a vastly inferior team , cockahoop at Kirtlington , and nearly coming unstuck at Windsor , where Perdita was sent off for swearing , so Rutshire had to play the last chukka with only three men , and only just won . |
| 18 | There is a story that when he had dictated the last sentence of his monumental Summa Theologiae , he laid his head in his hands sadly . |
| 19 | Despite the increasing difficulties which Edward faced in financing his wars in Scotland , the parliaments of these years are free of the political and constitutional arguments which had characterized the last years of Edward I 's reign . |
| 20 | The Rejects , who had reached the last stage without conceding a goal , were two down inside 20 minutes through Tommy Collins and Arwel Owen . |
| 21 | The battles between Fascists and the Left which began in 1934 looked superficially like those which had marked the last years of the Weimar republic . |
| 22 | When , at last , some nasty little spots began to appear , and he had spent the last night of the year sitting up in bed and holding his pyjama jacket away from his afflictions , Joan put her foot down . |
| 23 | Hans and he had spent the last winter in Nice and it was the only place he wanted to avoid ; the memories were still too painful . |
| 24 | The recent spell of warm weather was holding and Julie Murchison was feeling good in spite of the fact that she had spent the last hour in her Mother 's sick room . |
| 25 | She sat down on her suitcases and howled , feeling that he had swept the last traces of her personality out in the dustpan too . |
| 26 | What lay beneath it was totally unimportant , having lost all relevance to the world when the worms , the termites and the bacteria had converted the last shred of flesh into dust and left the dry bones to crumble . |
| 27 | Pedro de Castro Van Dúnem " Loy " ( who had earlier met Shevardnadze ) , when Baker reportedly said that Angola 's moves towards multiparty democracy had removed the last obstacle to US endorsement of a peace settlement . |
| 28 | The scents of the garden , blowing in through the open window , had removed the last trace of stuffiness from the room . |
| 29 | I do remember we 'd already put his full name on the car and had to remove the last part of it . ’ |
| 30 | Janet added : ‘ My husband had a wicked sense of humour and had to have the last laugh in life and death . |