Example sentences of "[pron] [conj] the last " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Well , ter cut a long story short 'e ends up tellin' me that the last bloke was put off fer losin' too much time an' I might be a bad time-keeper as well , what wiv me injuries . |
| 2 | Sniffing around the back door it occurred to me that the last time I 'd missed something : there was no cat door . |
| 3 | ‘ You 'd better tell them that the last showing has just started , Bill , ’ said Mr Brickley . |
| 4 | Clough responded furiously from his home yesterday , saying : ‘ Not a penny was passed between Terry Venables and me and the last time I was in a motorway service station , I went for a wee . ’ |
| 5 | Clough responded furiously from his home yesterday , saying : ‘ Not a penny was passed between Terry Venables and me and the last time I was in a motorway service station , I went for a wee . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ But I can assure you that the last thing the Football League wants is a repeat of the Maidstone situation where a club struggles through the summer to a new season and then folds . |
| 7 | er and of course I 've known Walter for years but I do n't know his wife , I 've never met his wife and of course not being able to get out into the street now , I should get out for about two years after I lost my husband and then I got this er awful pain nobody knows unless they have it er this arthritis in my knees , you see , and erm and then I found that it was too much for me to er otherwise I used to walk up to the post box road and I used to count the steps , three hundred and something steps there and three hundred and something back , you see , and to the front door , you see , but I , I ca n't do it now but I have with help and I went out last year with er Mrs and er twice we went to Dulwich which I enjoyed and so did she and the last time we went to and er we had our lunch and we went to see my cousins at West Suffolk and and , and then came home again , you see , and that 's the only time I went out last year and usually I used to go to for a day and I am hoping that if I , I am hoping , well you can only hope , that I might perhaps go so out one Sunday , once , just once in the , you see , because er , th that 's when when you 're old you 've got to keep , you 've got to hope for something |
| 8 | Do you read the whole lot , or read the first one and the last one and guess the rest ? |
| 9 | And he was the only lecturer who would admit that he 'd changed his mind about something since the last lecture , and that made a great impression on me . |
| 10 | I 've tried to tell him that the last thing Project Eden needs is an Administrator who 's crazy as a dakkabug , but will he listen to me ? ’ |
| 11 | On the second morning , Miss Honey received by registered post a letter from a firm of local solicitors informing her that the last will and testament of her late father , Dr Honey , had suddenly and mysteriously turned up . |
| 12 | About sixty former members of the BUF joined him and the last phase of his career in English politics had begun . |
| 13 | Constance did not understand him but the last word , strangely rhythmic and warm to her ears , stuck in her mind . |
| 14 | ‘ Oh , what a lovely garden , ’ said Sally-Anne , looking around her as the last bloom was placed on her pile . |
| 15 | To take it as the last word would be as unwise as putting one 's faith in a hand-out from the Department of the Interior . |
| 16 | Then I realised that I was actually contemplating accepting the senator 's offer , and I told myself that the last thing I needed this summer was to babysit two spoilt rich-kid junkies . |
| 17 | The decision in Butler turned on the fact that the battle of the forms was ended because the last document exchanged was construed as an unconditional acceptance , but what if the last document exhanged is a counter-offer , as discussed in the analysis set out above ? |
| 18 | in London B T H or G E C , I remember he told us that the last time you know because he was n't called up in the war he was reserved . |