Example sentences of "[vb past] his last [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He found his last meeting with the Shah a profoundly emotional experience and told the Shah he was so moved by the tragedy of it all that he would rather not speak . |
| 2 | He recalled his last visit to the Company 's Great Cornard factory two years ago when he presented with the Queen 's Award for Export . |
| 3 | But she ignored his last question . |
| 4 | I almost ignored his last words because I was still thinking about Billingsley 's dishonesty , but then I realised just what McIllvanney had said and I frowned . |
| 5 | When Malaysia was admitted to the Security Council of the UN in December 1964 , Sukarno played his last card : he took Indonesia out of the UN , declaring ( in words made familiar by Hitler ) ‘ our patience has come to an end ’ . |
| 6 | Albert Harry played his last League match for Palace at Brighton on 24 March 1934 and he left the club at the end of that season . |
| 7 | Sentiment was deliberately left out of the equation when David Sole played his last game of rugby . |
| 8 | It was apparently in there that MacQuillan ate his last meal . |
| 9 | Fortunately , he ate his last slice long before the advent of pub beauty contests . |
| 10 | In 1808 he received his last assignment when he went to Sweden as minister . |
| 11 | He had read the number off the old-fashioned dial phone as he handed his last letter in . |
| 12 | Yet , in Brooklyn , Beecher acted somewhat differently as Dickens found when he paid his last visit to America in 1868 . |
| 13 | TROUBLED Spaniard Seve Ballesteros birdied his last hole to make the cut in the Hong Kong Open yesterday , but was still 12 shots behind the halfway leader , American Brian Watts . |
| 14 | In the end he achieved his last object first . |
| 15 | The benediction was given in the cathedral itself , before Mozart began his last journey , alone , to the burial ground of St Marx . |
| 16 | Black was painfully aware of the silence that followed his last statement . |
| 17 | Clinton , 13 months on the road and his voice cracking , spent his last campaign day travelling through nine states before returning home to Little Rock , Arkansas , full of confidence . |
| 18 | With this he faced the world , soon gravitating to Soho and the French pub , where he spent his last pennies . |
| 19 | ‘ I see he spent his last leave at home in Pakistan , visiting his family . |
| 20 | It was here that Grandfather Denknetzeyan had spent many hours in deep contemplation while the seeds of revolution were scattered all around him , here that he spent his last moments in Moscow before setting out on that final and fateful journey to Petrograd . |
| 21 | Philip Larkin spent his last years as a university librarian at Hull , where he administered but did not teach ; John Wain resigned a lectureship at Reading to live in Oxford , where he spent five years as a professor of poetry ; Iris Murdoch , though willingly leaving an Oxford teaching post in her middle years , has lived there , or near it , married to a professor ; and David Lodge and Malcolm Bradbury either retired early or went part-time . |
| 22 | Rembrandt spent his last years in Amsterdam and the building in which he died now houses the Rembrandt House Museum . |
| 23 | From 1865 to 1871 he lived on the estates he had inherited in Scotland , and then spent his last years at Cambridge . |
| 24 | It was where he spent his last years , here at Gads ' Hill Place , in the house which he had coveted as a poverty-stricken child . |
| 25 | Ron Taylor spent his last years living in appalling conditions . |
| 26 | Short spent his last Saturday afternoon in London 's Tottenham Court Road buying a Notebook computer on which he will plot Karpov 's downfall from his room at the Hotel Anibal , the venue . |
| 27 | Among the more bizarre events after Mr Hancock 's demise was a police swoop on the quarters where he spent his last days . |
| 28 | KING CHARLES I spent his last days and very last night as a free man in Stamford at the house of Alderman Richard Wolph in Barn Hill ( on the site of the present Stukeley House ) . |
| 29 | His only modern biographer suggests that he spent his last days in extreme poverty at an advanced age , an ironical end for someone who had accounted meticulously for the handling of millions of pounds and had been listed by name in an Act of Parliament . |
| 30 | ‘ Your sister 's son spent his last days with me . |