Example sentences of "for the last [noun] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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1 | Not for the last day of my life . |
2 | Although widely described as boat people , a large number of the January arrivals had made most of the journey to Hong Kong aboard Chinese buses , only boarding boats for the last leg of their journey . |
3 | For the last year of his life he suffered from myeloma , a form of bone cancer , and entered hospital for the last time in July where he made friends with another patient who , unfortunately , soon died . |
4 | Freud moved from Vienna in 1938 , when the Nazis took over , and lived for the last year of his life in London . |
5 | He had been feeling sick ever since they left the main junction and climbed into the joggling , jolting line train for the last lap of their journey , but the sudden whistle had finished him . |
6 | Gloucester again relinquished peripheral holdings in exchange for the last addition to his Yorkshire estates in March 1478 , shortly after the execution of Clarence . |
7 | Gloucester again relinquished peripheral holdings in exchange for the last addition to his Yorkshire estates in March 1478 , shortly after the execution of Clarence . |
8 | The play drew standing-room-only crowds at Tokyo 's Nissay Theatre for the last part of its three-week run in January . |
9 | Brenda continues in Creole until just before " but to dance " , then switches back to London English for the last part of her turn , where she continues with her narration of actual events : " and then and then we star%ed to talk and all the rest of it and tha% " s it " — but switches to Creole for her final " punchline " : " full stop . |
10 | I went for the last fitting of my dress . |
11 | We know that Brahms kept a keen eye open for new music , and that he knew Rheinberger — what I wonder is whether it was the Rheinberger Sonata that suggested to Brahms the form for the last movement of his Symphony ? |
12 | Commander Fairley saw at once the wisdom of keeping the two children of his first marriage together for the last years of their progress to maturity . |
13 | For the last month of his contract , Hanley played but did not train . |
14 | For the last weeks of his curacy he left the lodgings and hired a room in a small hotel up Mount Pleasant . |
15 | As we have , therefore , travelled together through so many pages , let us behave to one another like fellow-travellers in a stage coach , who have passed several days in the company of each other : and who , notwithstanding any bickerings or little animosities which may have occurred on the road , generally make up at last , and mount for the last time into their vehicle with cheerfulness and good humour ; since after this one stage , it may possibly happen to us , as it commonly happens to them , never to meet more . |
16 | Do n't zoom the lens in and out , either , but save this effect for the last shot in which you zoom out to a wide view of the garden again . |