Example sentences of "[verb] his last [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a feeling that Mill House might just be coming out of the doldrums : he had won his last race , beating his solitary rival at Sandown Park for the princely sum of £426 , and appeared to be coming back to his old self . |
| 2 | ‘ Pay Homage should have won his last race at Goodwood and he 's been in fine form all year , ’ Ian said . |
| 3 | Do n't know his last name . |
| 4 | In 1799 as the new century dawned , Arthur Guinness , then seventy four , brewed his last ale . |
| 5 | But there was to be no happy ending , as first Barwick and then Treleaven beat his mark by a stroke , the latter even bogeying his last hole , the 18th , after his drive found the trees . |
| 6 | I did not catch his last words ; perhaps he said , ‘ … of others ’ . |
| 7 | Harvey said how much he had enjoyed his last visit to Riga , and how sorry he was that he would n't be going there , and the man at the other end said that Leningrad was one of the most wonderful towns in the world . |
| 8 | Those who could n't read the words made them up , and Tich , who 'd lost his glasses , settled for singing ‘ Widecombe Fair ’ instead , coughing , spluttering and relishing his last night out . |
| 9 | He found his last meeting with the Shah a profoundly emotional experience and told the Shah he was so moved by the tragedy of it all that he would rather not speak . |
| 10 | Forget his last form figures because the shades have woken him up and he could be a long-priced winner despite the claims of Gold Blade and Ballyranter . |
| 11 | We can also point to grammatical parallelisms which , although not devoid of content , merely seem to have an elaborative function , providing further examples of a concept already expressed : " The sweetest rose hath his prickle " already conveys , by proverbial extension , the meaning " even the best things are alloyed with bad " , and to that extent , the repetition of the pattern in " the finest velvet his brack , the fairest flour his bran " , is redundant.Lyly might not , one imagines , have added his last piece of pattern , the similitude of sanctity , unless he had hit on the alliteration of " holiest head " and " wicked way " . |
| 12 | Patrick says his last marathon was in Gloucester in 1985 … he 's a lot older now |
| 13 | She realised she was on her own ; George must be expecting a true Conflict Situation if he was already saving his last bullet for himself . |
| 14 | Victor Frankenstein died a few hours after he had written his last word . |
| 15 | Perhaps he had believed he was to go with the main reconnaissance party , and having written his last letter did not like to write to me again to cause me what he thought would be further confusion and anxiety . |
| 16 | His final task was to report to the paymaster 's office and receive his last pay packet and travel voucher before relinquishing the King 's shilling . |
| 17 | Foxe describes his last moments : ‘ He was brought forth to the place of execution , was there tied to the stake , and then strangled by the hangman , and afterwards with fire consumed in the morning at the town of Vilvorde , AD 1536 ; crying thus at the stake with a fervent zeal and a loud voice : ‘ Lord , open the King of England 's eyes ’ . ’ |
| 18 | He does not give his last name . |
| 19 | He recalled his last visit to the Company 's Great Cornard factory two years ago when he presented with the Queen 's Award for Export . |
| 20 | He wanted to settle , once and for all , the question of whether Riddle had made his last journey inside the Wheel and for that reason he was resolved to have it closely examined by an expert . |
| 21 | Old ships never die and doubtless she is still knocking around the East Coast , though I suppose old Payne may have made his last port by now I should be interested in an oil painting on canvas , or board ( which I suppose would come a bit cheaper ! ! ) showing her beating around the Foreland under sail in fairly heavy weather , say Force 6 … ’ |
| 22 | When I spoke to his assistant she told he had said his last word on the subject and did not want to hear of it again . |
| 23 | It was he who introduced me to the doyen of all Tibetan experts , Sir Charles Bell who , because of the war , was living quietly at The Old Charming Inn near Victoria while writing his last book . |
| 24 | But she ignored his last question . |
| 25 | I almost ignored his last words because I was still thinking about Billingsley 's dishonesty , but then I realised just what McIllvanney had said and I frowned . |
| 26 | When Malaysia was admitted to the Security Council of the UN in December 1964 , Sukarno played his last card : he took Indonesia out of the UN , declaring ( in words made familiar by Hitler ) ‘ our patience has come to an end ’ . |
| 27 | Albert Harry played his last League match for Palace at Brighton on 24 March 1934 and he left the club at the end of that season . |
| 28 | Sentiment was deliberately left out of the equation when David Sole played his last game of rugby . |
| 29 | It was apparently in there that MacQuillan ate his last meal . |
| 30 | Fortunately , he ate his last slice long before the advent of pub beauty contests . |