Example sentences of "when [pers pn] [verb] [art] last [noun] " in BNC.

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1 But when she made a last appeal , and told him , though feeling it was not quite true , that Martha had asked him to bring her father back , and then , very unwisely , referred again to Mrs Hodge , and the house , and the single bed , and even the temple bells , and asked him why he did n't come to his senses and whether he did n't think he 'd be happier living with a woman , whether she was on a boat or not , he turned on her , upsetting the bowl of water in front of the gas fire , and shouted :
2 Perhaps when she knew every last detail of their affair she could blank it all out and start all over again … and the dawn might never come !
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 Concentrating on keeping her gift level and unsquashed she climbed the Casa Guidi stairs carefully , glad when she reached the last bend .
6 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 .
7 Again when we went the last time they said that .
8 When we met the last time .
9 The power of the Imperial illusion is only properly appreciated when we watch the last phase in the career of a politician 's politician of the first rank , Joseph Chamberlain .
10 As you know , Piper , the staff at the Commando Camp have been accepting free board and lodgings at my Police Station for some time now , especially when they miss the last transport back to camp . ’
11 When he reached the last machine he went back to the beginning and played them all again .
12 White clinched a quarter-final place when he potted the last red and colours to the pink in the deciding frame .
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