Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [prep] the last [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The flight was successfully undertaken to the area of Kerkenah Island , where two 22X Squadron Sunderlands met the Hurricanes and led them on the last leg to the island . |
| 2 | She was about to say so , in no uncertain terms , but stopped herself at the last moment . |
| 3 | She used the buses and wherever she found herself on the last bus at night , whether at her own home or at her son 's , she would stay for the night only to set off again early the following morning . |
| 4 | If he races on Saturday New Level will line up against the much fancied Ringa Hustle and the dog which beat him in the last round , Apres Soleil , which is on offer at 80–1 . |
| 5 | He found it on the last day of 1869 under nearly twenty feet of sand . |
| 6 | She was about to shake her head , but changed it at the last moment to a nod . |
| 7 | Mota , from Portugal , suffered yet again with a mysterious stomach complaint , which affected her during the last world championships . |
| 8 | Taping rehearsals also reduces the likelihood of arguments about who played what at the last rehearsal . |
| 9 | ‘ They insisted that they held the meeting at a place of their choosing and only told us at the last minute . |
| 10 | Thomasino Boyd , who joined us for the last couple of years , and before that ( in Scots accent ) Doogie Rae . |
| 11 | In my maths in school we just finished them on the last day . |
| 12 | We betrayed the Arabs over the Balfa declaration , we betrayed them after they cleared Africa and the Middle East under Lawrence , we betrayed them in the last war when they backed our rear and allowed the ninth army , and I was there , to join the eighth army and get out , and directly the last war was over , we betrayed them again — there 's a complete betrayal of the Arabs in the Middle East . |
| 13 | Bessie kissed me for the last time as I held tightly to her . |
| 14 | The man heard or sensed him at the last moment and turned with his hands coming up to a fighting stance but Maxim feinted through them and hit him low in the stomach . |
| 15 | I kissed her for the last time as she lay in her hospital bed : the bedclothes were crisp and undisturbed , and she looked very clean , just as she would have wanted to ; and very small , because she was so old , and having started life none too big had ended up , at the age of ninety-one , not much bigger than a child . |
| 16 | Come and clean my windows and I owed him from the last time . |
| 17 | He led her to the last desk in the line , on which she could see a sheaf of pink sheets of paper . |
| 18 | You will remember that we met him in the last commercial . |
| 19 | Harry Carpenter came up to interview him and asked him about the last putt . |
| 20 | You saw him for the last time in 1959 . |
| 21 | Well I saw it in the last time it was in here on Central and it was n't , it did n't come on ! |
| 22 | This surely is the basic English policy of helping and solidarity , which took us through the last war and into the first Labour Government and the welfare state . |
| 23 | The South Koreans are rated because they made it to the last World Cup finals , but personally I will always think of the North Koreans in ‘ 66 . |
| 24 | DEC president Bob Palmer , who was supposed to grace this week 's gathering with his presence — see front page — absented himself at the last minute . |
| 25 | albacete have lost one and won one since the last time i mailed . |
| 26 | He was almost on the point of signing before his better judgement saved him at the last moment from the emetic flower-child rompings of this 1972 Paramount flop . |
| 27 | Notice the bust of Dobrovský standing in front of the charming garden house which the Nostics gave him in the last years of his life . |
| 28 | Booth did it in the last minute , slipping the ball home after Lee Richardson , an outstanding performer in the Aberdeen midfield , had struck the post with a clever shot made possible when Rhodes miskicked . |
| 29 | Yeah , and then from that they 've now got these fucking things that show the direction , the sign , the speed and oh its incredible sonar 's been going longer than radar , but only just we were the world leader 's now , I mean we cos we , cos we preserve fuel , we knew exactly , they left it for the last minute to get up there and intercept them . |
| 30 | I ca n't understand why they left it till the last moment ? |