Example sentences of "as [pers pn] [vb past] the last [adj] " in BNC.

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1 We both started to laugh as I had the last few words on the subject .
2 As the buzz or the haze receded , and as I chewed the last tasteless fragment of sandwiched thermoplastic , I steadied myself by counting the melamine tables and counting the chairs and counting the customers and counting the sticky sauce bottles and the dome-shaped salt cellars and the cups , the plates , the cutlery , the ashtrays , anything in sight .
3 Bernice shivered inside her coat as she ran the last few feet to the stones .
4 But she was thinking hard all the time , and as she chased the last milky drops round her saucer she went on dreamily : ‘ I wonder what will happen to us all .
5 She lay back , her body rigid , as she reviewed the last few catastrophic days of her life .
6 A weird island , they found as they walked the last half mile — after leaving the Mercedes in a car park with Dillon seated in the rear .
7 Now , I did eventually get my father to tell me this ; and , according to him , it was just as he choked the last struggling life out of the dog that he heard another scream , this time from above , and inside the house , and that was the boy they called Paul being born .
8 He looked briefly at his son as he said the last few words , conscious that the boy was watching everything .
9 His chuckle was rich , and his eyes creased in amusement as he narrowed the last little gap between them .
10 She rubbed sinuously against him as she felt a deep thrill at his arousal , and shut her eyes as he removed the last fragile barrier .
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