Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [verb] [prep] the last " in BNC.

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1 And often , as I sat writing such poems that helped me cling to the last shreds of my many identities , I would suddenly sense that you were indeed approaching .
2 PALEFACE David Mellor walked into a hall full of journalists last night … and found himself drinking in The Last Chance Saloon .
3 And then , instead of hiding until the passage was clear , fitzAlan had given her a shove and told her to wait in the last cubicle .
4 The only thing that kept me going on the last lap of the journey was the rhythm of my steps .
5 ‘ How did you answer about the last — about presenting me to him ? ’
6 Did you come to the last history meeting
7 None of them mentioned Richard or Hubert Molland ; nor did they refer to the last time they had all had tea together .
8 This last point is certainly not irrelevant , since the commemorative scroll sent to me from the Palace names Leslie as of the Parachute Regiment ; and under this unit did he appear for the last time in the Army List .
9 The king had himself portrayed on the last coinage of his reign , issued c. 1485 , wearing the closed crown of the emperor , at much the same time as Henry VII introduced the style into England ; but James went one better by having himself shown in a realistic three-quarters face portrait , thereby producing what the numismatist Ian Stewart has described as ‘ probably the earliest Renaissance coin portrait outside Italy ’ .
10 What had they said at the last ?
11 What had he meant about the last couple of lines of her notes ?
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