Example sentences of "[vb past] [art] last [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When we met the last time . |
| 2 | Nicolo watched as Caroline spooned the last bit of tiramisu from her dessert plate . |
| 3 | Samuel Barber 's Adagio for Strings was well enough played but lacked the last ounce of passion , and suffered badly from the aurally obtrusive air conditioning system , Randall Thompson 's Alleluya showed that the Festival Chorus on this occasion were equally as adept at unaccompanied singing as their counterparts had been last week . |
| 4 | A SPECIAL task force yesterday unearthed the last £140,000 of the ransom money handed over after estate agent Stephanie Slater was kidnapped . |
| 5 | A shower of jeers greeted him from the queue and , as he passed the last boy , who was just out of sight of Mr Gillis , a foot shot out , caught him on the ankle and down he went , sprawling on the wooden floor . |
| 6 | We passed the last houses , the last streetlights . |
| 7 | We also hear , incidentally , that Dr Mowlam and Tory candidate Robert Goodwill shared the last waltz ( ‘ not quite cheek to cheek ’ says the gallant Goodwill ) at the Langbaurgh council 's chairman 's ball on Friday . |
| 8 | Blake drunk the last drops of his beer and left . |
| 9 | During the seven-year period 1642 to 1649 , parliament also designated the last Wednesday of each month as a solemn day of ‘ fasting and humiliation ’ , which was to be observed by abstinence from food and drink and attendance at a day-long round of religious exercises aimed at producing both personal and national reformation . |
| 10 | ‘ Well , I wo n't cry over spilt milk , ’ Karen said as she finally recovered the last smithereen of dog . |
| 11 | Toney made the last day and the final two rounds , and I was on my way . |
| 12 | Their cattle are finished : they made the last batch of bread with oxblood to save what 's left of the water , and they drink that mixed with wine , of which there is n't all that much , either . |
| 13 | Morton said quietly , watching as the tall man lowered the last crate into the hold . |
| 14 | Delaney lowered the last photograph . |
| 15 | Has the Secretary of State read the last sentence of the Cardiff Business school report , which states : " If as we are led to believe , Wales is drawing on a new era , nobody has informed Mountain Ash about it . " ? |
| 16 | Sitting alone at her kitchen table , Kelly read the last words ever written by her father . |
| 17 | Satisfied , Barry Silk laid the last item of his equipment lovingly down , almost as if for a kit inspection . |
| 18 | Jed picked up his glass and swirled the last inch of beer around . |
| 19 | It became the last stop for taking on provisions for the large convoys of merchant and naval ships crossing the Atlantic . |
| 20 | The Duke of Gloucester , appointed in 1932 , became the last president and first official patron of the College , and the Duke of Edinburgh agreed to become patron in 1975 following the Duke of Gloucester 's death . |
| 21 | No 55015 Tulyar having returned light engined from Edinburgh to York on 2 january 1982 became the last Deltic to be switched off by BR . |
| 22 | In 1922 Parma became the last city in Italy to give in to Mussolini , and then only after violent fighting Oltre Torrente . |
| 23 | She was a devout Anabaptist and befriended James Burton , who was involved in the Rye House Plot , and gave him sanctuary , but she was betrayed and taken to London , where she was tried and became the last woman to be burnt at the stake at Tyburn on 16th October , 1685 . |
| 24 | Critics compare him to Jeremy Thomas , who produced The Last Emperor but whose name takes a back seat to Bertolucci 's . |
| 25 | I got The Last Boy Scout . |
| 26 | I got The Last Boy Scout . |
| 27 | But it 's still the same , but it 's the pains that I got the last time that 's gon it 's like sharp pains that 's going round about , just the insides of the nipple . |
| 28 | ‘ We got the last ring in the shop in my size , ’ said Mrs Williams , who also has fond memories of their wartime honeymoon in Scarborough . |
| 29 | He hung up and got the last volume of the bigger directory from the rack under the table . |
| 30 | Led the last stretches of the way by a guide using arcane local landmarks , they arrived at Dunvegan Castle in the later afternoon , and Johnson found himself much warmed by the reception . |