Example sentences of "[coord] [adj] [prep] last " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the next meeting , Mr E almost casually mentioned that he had been trying out one or two of last week 's ideas and that Dave seemed quite responsive to him this week . |
| 2 | And safe at last … the Bosnian children who escaped a massacre . |
| 3 | I tell her I am tired and giddy from last night 's sleeping pill . |
| 4 | Birch is an ebullient polymath , a former professor of biology at the University of Sydney , no mean theologian , a philosopher and devotee of A. N. Whitehead , a distinguished member of the World Council of Churches , a raconteur , an activist in a multitude of good causes , and one of last year 's recipients of the Templeton Prize , the most prestigious and valuable prize in the world for progress in religion . |
| 5 | Now I 'm finishing a college course as a book-keeper and ready at last to have a career . |
| 6 | When it did not , he opened his eyes again , looking up through squinted vision at Rohmer , sitting above him and silent at last . |
| 7 | Merrill went straight up to her room , relieved to be alone and quiet at last , and as she undressed for bed she thought that she heard the door to Luke 's room open and close again . |
| 8 | Does the Secretary of State notice that 12 months ago every vacant job in Wales was chased by nine unemployed people but that by last month 13 unemployed people were chasing each vacancy ? |
| 9 | He had done a reasonable amount of pilot work , firing for some of the older shunt link drivers and had also fired on the local ‘ pick-up ’ , but this at last was the real thing . |
| 10 | But most of last month 's suggested fish will be happy in the mid-range of most people 's normal tap water . |