Example sentences of "[verb] to his last " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I think the shoemaker should stick to his last . |
| 3 | 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 ’ ) . |
| 4 | The cobbler should stick to his last . |
| 5 | Warren Christopher , the secretary of state , will stick to his last . |
| 6 | But note that Ratner differs from other exploiters of the Thatcher Years in that he stuck to his last . |
| 7 | Matey thought unkindly that Mrs Darrell rather liked the idea of becoming Lady Cochrane when Stair went to his last rest , which at the rate he was living might not be long . |
| 8 | To get to the end of my story first , let me point to his last winter 's feat of equally Laurie O'Hara 's O55 Wimbledon cross-country record . |
| 9 | He was gone before we could reply to his last remark . |
| 10 | He had never used her first name before , she realised , and the lilting sound of it on his lips sent a knife-sharp thrust of awareness through her , taking away any power to reply to his last words . |