Example sentences of "[prep] my last [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It took a flying leap into the quagmire during my last screw with Gabriel . ’ |
| 2 | Why , I even had this staff carved from one such , during my last venture there . |
| 3 | Now it took several years for er the new incentive scheme to be introduced throughout the whole of the works and I think during my last discussion you know , I did indicate that the fitters for example , you know , were about the last group to go on . |
| 4 | During my last year at Cambridge the Prime Minister , Mr Callaghan , came to speak at the Union . |
| 5 | I was n't doing anything to speed up my role as a would-be doctor , so during my last year at Oxford , where I had planned to stay for three years before going to London for the real hard medical training , I arranged ( again through Dr Allott ) to spend my final long vac helping out as a general dogsbody at the National Hospital for Nervous Diseases in Queen Square , central London , where there was a special unit investigating Heine-Medin 's disease , the original name for polio , and — especially in the 1930s — doing research into the spinal aspects . |
| 6 | Also , during my last year at Oxford , I had noticed that I was getting rather clumsy in my movements . |
| 7 | I felt it during my last year at Ladymont . |
| 8 | During my last year , when I was captain , we won the Hospitals and Universities Championship , won against the Army and beat Cambridge 4–3 . |
| 9 | During my last year at Oxford I had applied to join the Sudan Political Service . |
| 10 | ‘ During my last voyage aboard Lord Nelson we ran into quite a storm in the middle of the Celtic Sea . |
| 11 | During my last term at school I was the slave of a corporal in the Welsh Fusiliers . |
| 12 | During my last term , the Summer Term of 1926 , the Heather Festival was held commemorating the foundation of the Music School by William Heather in 1626 . |
| 13 | During my last visit , on a warm spring day , I climbed high into the remote vastness of Foinaven and Arkle , to a tiny blue speck of water , probably unfished for decades . |
| 14 | During my last visit to Bara in September 1992 Ian Jack , Manager at Lochboisdale and the Manager responsible for Castlebay , came across in this self-same partly-open-to-the elements ferry becoming totally saturated in the process and had to spend the morning drying himself at the Castlebay heater . |
| 15 | It never crossed my mind that I would ever recover from the suffering I underwent during my last days there , and especially my last hours . |
| 16 | And during my last month here , I 'm not having anything to do with your plans for Yorick . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ During my last pregnancy my husband and I went through a really tough time — in fact it has not ended yet and we are undecided as to whether we are going to separate or not . |
| 18 | To loose them off together , scatter-gun fashion : Stavrogin says ‘ I am making this statement , incidentally , to prove I am in full possession of my mental faculties and understand my position ’ ; ‘ I want to forgive myself , this is my chief aim , my whole aim ’ ; ‘ I want everyone to look at me ’ ; ‘ I fall back on this as my last resource ’ ; ‘ The thing about me then was I felt bored with life , sick and tired of it ’ ; ‘ I am seeking boundless suffering ’ ; ‘ I took it into my head to mutilate my life somehow ’ ( not necessarily the same thing as seeking suffering , any more than seeking suffering need entail accepting it ) . |
| 19 | I was not of that minority , but the argument sharpened my concern for the education of the most-talented pupils — a concern that was to run through my last years in Banbury and into my work in Oxford . |
| 20 | There 's little room left for my last choice , Juniper Hall by Linda Kelly . |
| 21 | The photographs for the Prix de Diane Hermès arrived too late for my last diary , so I held this piece to go with them . |
| 22 | She never said anything about it when I went up there for my last leave , and she 's never written about it since , but I can imagine a little of what she felt . |
| 23 | ‘ Ca n't be late for my last day with the Forestry . |
| 24 | I received the Geography prize for my last year at school and also collected the certificates for my six other subjects taken at ‘ A ’ and ‘ O ’ level standard . |
| 25 | ‘ For my last night ? ’ |
| 26 | If I do n't get back and find Jeff soon it 'll be time for my last bus and I ca n't go without seeing him . |
| 27 | My dear wife , Lucy , bought me a special phone-attachment — bought it for my last birthday , bless her heart . ’ |
| 28 | I did actually toy with the idea of calling myself Coma Toes or something for my last album . |
| 29 | I 've barely had time to wipe the blood off my axe after my last battle and it 's already time to hack my way through the next trail ! |
| 30 | Towards the end of my last year I was called by Bishop Knight and asked where I would like to serve . |