Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | I helped to win the last one , I shall help to win the next one . |
| 2 | ( If you tried to swap the last column of a table without doing so you would jumble up your text ) |
| 3 | ‘ If we had gone out over two legs to Leeds and failed to reach the last eight of the European Cup , Rangers would have been branded failures . |
| 4 | She really had thought she 'd heard the last of that voice . |
| 5 | ‘ I thought I 'd seen the last of this particular fashion accessory . ’ |
| 6 | Had n't she thought she 'd seen the last of Rourke Deveraugh ? |
| 7 | I thought we 'd seen the last of him , after what he did to Jennifer . ’ |
| 8 | Police had hoped they 'd seen the last of the joyriding and the crowds who gather to see the stolen cars in action . |
| 9 | Nottingham Forest0 Manchester United1 MANCHESTER United filled the last remaining gap in the Old Trafford trophy cabinet , as far as domestic competitions are concerned , at Wembley yesterday by winning the League Cup for the first time . |
| 10 | We thought we 'd had the last laugh when we got to the play-off finals against Charlton but he was an even bigger pain in the arse after that . |
| 11 | I kept making the point on Saturday here at Lane Martin , that I did n't think that erm we 'd had the last of the goals as they kept er popping in at both ends , and I 'm sure though we 've had three with a little over half an hour played here , we have n't seen the last of the goals here either . |
| 12 | Two rounds of trumps can be drawn with the Ace and King , and then 3 rounds of Spades played trumping the last losing Spade in dummy . |
| 13 | After I 'd spent the last two days setting it up ? ’ |
| 14 | He 'd spent the last few days bouncing from resort to resort . |
| 15 | In fact , rather better than he 'd seemed the last time I 'd seen him . |
| 16 | He 'd spoken the last words in Italian , and in Italian as fluent and colloquial as his own she answered , ‘ I 'm sorry about that . |
| 17 | He 'd gone the last time , he reminded her , because of Lowell 's hands — well , partly . |
| 18 | It seemed to represent the last word as a model for other cities to follow . |
| 19 | It was widely believed that there were no human fossils , so the recent appearance of humankind seemed to represent the last step in the ascent of life . |
| 20 | I woke sensing the last one |
| 21 | It was so bad , I 'd be looking forward to the next meal before I 'd finished the last one , ’ she says . |
| 22 | Crawled until I could see the arrow only because it was pale against the bark , and knew I was already further away than when I 'd taken the last bearing . |
| 23 | When a priest arrived to administer the last rites , Mansell sent him away . |
| 24 | The incident which led to the bans happened entering the last two furlongs of the You 'll Never Get Rich Handicap when Weaver , on eventual fourth Corn Futures , hampered Darley 's mount Love Jazz . |
| 25 | Kalchu finished weaving the last whitish length of woollen cloth to make a jacket and put his loom away . |
| 26 | Sophie nodded as she finished examining the last one . |
| 27 | We called ploughing the last furrow in a stetch taking up the brew . |
| 28 | We all thought that Trotsky could have run rings round him , but it was Stalin who survived to wreck the last few hopes of the Revolution and now to swallow up Eastern Europe . ’ |
| 29 | He decided to spend the last hour at the local pub . |
| 30 | The drama was not quite over because all three players managed to hit the last green in two shots , and Harley , by dint of a nice kick forward when the ball pitched , was no more than six feet from the hole . |