Example sentences of "last [noun sg] [pers pn] [verb] this [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Then last night I made this promise to him . |
| 2 | this chap was here last week he bought this pine table up , got his key , and he 'd been working for three years in Norway |
| 3 | Then I realised that I was actually contemplating accepting the senator 's offer , and I told myself that the last thing I needed this summer was to babysit two spoilt rich-kid junkies . |
| 4 | And last Christmas I received this letter from one of my Nottingham volunteers . |
| 5 | Last time I played this Strathspey was at a ceilidh held in the village hall at Spean Bridge , attended by villagers and staff from the training centre at Achnacarry . |
| 6 | It was Wednesday night last time I did this course I felt really whacked . |
| 7 | For about fifteen minutes he did nothing but sit there contentedly , sipping his coffee and watching their restless , flickering scene around him through half-open eyes : the tall , bearded man with a cigar and a fatuous grin who walked up and down at an unvarying even pace like a clockwork soldier , never looking at anybody ; the plump ageing layabout in a Gestapo officers leather coat and dark glasses holding court outside the door of the cafe , trading secrets and scandal with his men friends , assessing the passers-by as thought they were for sale , calling after women and making hour-glass gestures with his hairy gold-ringed hands ; a frail old man bent like an S , with a crazy harmless expression and a transistor radio pressed to his ear walking with the exaggerated urgency of those who have nowhere to go ; slim Africans with leatherwork belts and bangles laid out on a piece of cloth ; a Gypsy child sitting n the cold stone playing the same four note again and again on a cheap concertina ; two foreigners with guitars an a small crowd around them ; a beggar with his shirt pulled down over one shoulder to reveal the stump of an amputated arm ; a pudgy shapeless women with an open suitcase full of cigarette lighters and bootleg cassettes ; the two Nordic girls at the next table , basking half-naked in the weak March sun as though this might be the last time it appeared this year . |
| 8 | Last time she wore this suite it looked really nice . |