Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [verb] the last [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kitty spoke of a new lair , a vixen biting the ear of a cub , an owl on a rat , the sound of a wolf although everyone knew the last wolf in England had been killed some years before about forty miles to the south , near the Bay . |
| 2 | Flaherty said to be sure this was true , although he misremembered the last time they 'd been called on to supply them , it being all of two years since the Wolfkings had been driven out by the Gruagach . |
| 3 | We talked until I missed the last train . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm not runnin' away like I did the last time . ’ |
| 5 | May I ask , Chairman , cos I missed the last meeting , what , what the , the subcommittee , is that the s an ad hoc subcommittee ? |
| 6 | But if you remember the last time they sent us a parcel er |
| 7 | For example , if we make the last element of unc unity , and partition ( |
| 8 | If we pursue the last option then we might have a job proving that we have made a successful descent but at least it would then truly become a purely personal outing in a boat . |
| 9 | Before the right hon. Gentleman goes into overdrive , perhaps he will confirm that , in the past three months , industrial production has fallen faster in Germany , faster in France , faster in the United States and faster in Japan than it has in this country ; and that , if we take the last year as a whole , industrial production fell more in Japan , and more in Germany , than in the United Kingdom . |
| 10 | ( ii ) If we transfer the last column of A to the first position , we have a new matrix A ; with B unchanged we then have unc A is again of degeneracy 1 , B of degeneracy 2 ; but here C is of degeneracy 3 . |
| 11 | If we choose the last column above ( which excludes x1 and |
| 12 | And you do n't fall asleep , as you are inclined to do if you try to be an absorbent sponge , soaking in what the authors say as if they had the last word . |
| 13 | Those last would not be required again until they reached the last mile of the return trip . |
| 14 | They could n't see the shepherd until they crossed the last rise but they could hear the sheepbells on the clear air . |
| 15 | Cornish people of southwestern England believe souls progress through various stages , reducing in size each time until they reach the last stage of the cycle before passing to Heaven or Hell . |
| 16 | He spoke without conviction , as if he believed the last phrase was something he was obliged to say rather than genuinely believed . |
| 17 | Bang-bang-bang goes my big bass heart while I press the last number . |
| 18 | William read through the article , finding two literals , while she finished the last page . |
| 19 | It takes at least a couple of seconds before I recognize the last straw . |
| 20 | We could feel the tension among the large audience of Spaniards and British and Americans , a tension that relaxed into applause as I blew the last candle out and the room lamps came on . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'm just trying to get some perspective here , ’ he said as I twisted the last coldness from my beer bottle . |
| 22 | But as I say the last bit where you sa dur during the course of the , of this conversation it almost sounded as though you were gon na , you 're doing it parrot , parrot fashion whereas the rest of it was , was superb , there was no , no problems in that . |
| 23 | Jessica dropped back a short way — the Polo handling the terrain without a struggle — and thus was in a position to take the view full-frontally when she rounded the last corner . |
| 24 | When she took the last fence it brought her right around the wood , opposite the point where the Master had asked them to fan out . |
| 25 | Concentrating on keeping her gift level and unsquashed she climbed the Casa Guidi stairs carefully , glad when she reached the last bend . |
| 26 | When she drops the last bead , she picks up all the beads in that last hole ( both hers and her opponent 's if that 's the case ) , and continues to drop them , hole by hole , around the board . |
| 27 | This fantasy was so vivid to her that she would even rehearse this line out loud , looking at herself in her mirror as she smoked the last cigarette of the night , after she 'd taken her face off , after all the noise was over and we 'd all gone home . |
| 28 | As she reached the last step Travis appeared through a door to her left . |
| 29 | She touched Artemis lightly on the shoulder as she said the last word , and throwing away her lipstick-stained cigarette butt , fell into step beside them . |
| 30 | She could have kicked herself as she added the last bit . |