Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] his last " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the first things Tolkien did after his return to Oxford in 1925 was to set up an Icelandic reading group such as he had enjoyed during his last job , as Professor of English at Leeds . |
| 2 | His conduct of the crisis could be seen as a great achievement , yet something so negative and distasteful was not what he would have wished for his last service . |
| 3 | Felix 's wife started talking about poetry , which she wrote , while Felix shouted about his last visit to Castro . |
| 4 | Appearing in his last big television interview before the election , the Prime Minister appeared relaxed and confident of winning an overall majority . |
| 5 | Leavis , a radical socialist before 1950 , turned briefly liberal before adopting in his last years a bitterly conservative stance that favoured no party of state , hating economic growth and the European Community , so that long before his death in 1978 his idealism had been soured by the varied spectacle of human folly ; but though always outside religion , he was in no way hostile to it , and admired its moral seriousness . |
| 6 | In fact , it was the sort of autonomy that Dustin had already won on his last two pictures , and would retain , much to many directors ' displeasure , in most of his future ventures . |
| 7 | Dr Jim Howe , Tony 's doctor , said : ‘ His parents said how peaceful their son has looked over his last few days and how relieved they are that he is finally at rest . ’ |
| 8 | The instrument which Holly used on his last tour is on display in a music museum in Texas . |
| 9 | So she concentrated on his last remark . |
| 10 | WHAT next for Mike Morris , TV-am 's genial co-host , who tomorrow morning presides over his last breakfast show ? |
| 11 | He aimed his red-and-white bike down Decatur Street , towards a small brick pub in the Quarter , searching for his last friend . |
| 12 | A short time before his death Harry Chapman had left his Hampshire rest home to stay at Herbert 's home in Oakwood , Leeds , and the care with which he was attended in his last days showed his elder brother 's family loyalty and devotion . |
| 13 | What had he done in his last incarnation to deserve it ? |
| 14 | The king 's death had not , however , cancelled the grant of a tax on aliens granted in his last parliament and this fell due at Midsummer , although £400 was already assigned to the household and the remainder apparently earmarked for the coronation . |
| 15 | The king 's death had not , however , cancelled the grant of a tax on aliens granted in his last parliament and this fell due at Midsummer , although £400 was already assigned to the household and the remainder apparently earmarked for the coronation . |
| 16 | Almost the only thing he could think of coherently as he peered at the Dutch tiles and crazy paving was that according to his last statement of account he had 67 12s. 9d. in the bank . |
| 17 | Norman has the adrenalin flowing for the Masters , and is confident he will improve on his last two visits , when he missed the cut both times . |
| 18 | In 1886 he came on his last lecture tour , managed by Pond , and at the invitation of Parker . |
| 19 | He met Agnes , the brazen lady-in-waiting , whom he had met on his last visit to Kinghorn . |
| 20 | No longer active sexually , he now invests his time and energy in caring for his last offspring . |
| 21 | I thought : what did he see as his last sight on earth ? |
| 22 | He had been twenty-one when he died of leukaemia , and I had had to help with his last offices and was then sent to escort his body to the mortuary . |
| 23 | ‘ America has a lot of assets , ’ he claimed in his last speech to congress , ‘ we should cash in on them . ’ |
| 24 | I think the shoemaker should stick to his last . |
| 25 | However , he says that Mr. Owen , thereupon , ‘ gravely , but very tenderly rebuked my pride , and gave me for my theme : ‘ Ne sutor ultra crepidam ’ ’ ( ‘ Let the cobbler stick to his last ’ ) . |
| 26 | The cobbler should stick to his last . |
| 27 | Warren Christopher , the secretary of state , will stick to his last . |
| 28 | The room had been tidied since his last visit . |
| 29 | He glared at her over his beer , daring her to agree with his last assertion . |
| 30 | On the particular afternoon to which I am referring , his lordship would still have been in his mid-fifties ; but as I recall , his hair had greyed entirely and his tall slender figure already bore signs of the stoop that was to become so pronounced in his last years . |