Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] last [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly his terse telephone technique had annoyed me last night , but not enough to make me want to spit at the sight of him . |
| 2 | There was a feeling that Mill House might just be coming out of the doldrums : he had won his last race , beating his solitary rival at Sandown Park for the princely sum of £426 , and appeared to be coming back to his old self . |
| 3 | ‘ Pay Homage should have won his last race at Goodwood and he 's been in fine form all year , ’ Ian said . |
| 4 | In 1799 as the new century dawned , Arthur Guinness , then seventy four , brewed his last ale . |
| 5 | Harvey said how much he had enjoyed his last visit to Riga , and how sorry he was that he would n't be going there , and the man at the other end said that Leningrad was one of the most wonderful towns in the world . |
| 6 | We can also point to grammatical parallelisms which , although not devoid of content , merely seem to have an elaborative function , providing further examples of a concept already expressed : " The sweetest rose hath his prickle " already conveys , by proverbial extension , the meaning " even the best things are alloyed with bad " , and to that extent , the repetition of the pattern in " the finest velvet his brack , the fairest flour his bran " , is redundant.Lyly might not , one imagines , have added his last piece of pattern , the similitude of sanctity , unless he had hit on the alliteration of " holiest head " and " wicked way " . |
| 7 | Seeming not to have heard her last remark , Tom Reynolds spoke bitterly . |
| 8 | The government announced on Aug. 12 the discontinuation of all uranium extraction and the closure of processing plants , angering uranium miners , who had received their last pay packets in April . |
| 9 | She had told Anne on Saturday that she had received her last letter before the leave . |
| 10 | It was a long way from the back streets of big cities and the criminal set , and even further from the grim-faced soldiers who had guarded her last assignment . |
| 11 | She felt as if she had given her last performance . |
| 12 | Tommaso described , rapidly , one of the many round stone shelters scattered in the olive groves outside the town , on the road which led to the sea from the farm where he had visited them last Easter . |
| 13 | I said , well , I said , I 'm , I 'm someone had seen me last week . |
| 14 | I have done my last charity ball . |
| 15 | In fact , I have done my last charity performance ever . |
| 16 | She 'd noticed her last night . |
| 17 | We had disturbed their last feed of the day . |
| 18 | The men were going to be surprised , of course , because she had said her last goodbye on Friday . |
| 19 | The awful discovery that she 'd missed her last period and that , following their night of love and passion she was now probably expecting his baby was making Ross 's silence almost unbearably hard to accept . |
| 20 | Why should n't Fanshawe just have said to his wife , ‘ This young lady has missed her last train and since she lives in London I said we 'd give her a lift ’ ? |
| 21 | This feeling owes a lot to all the novels and films and to actual practice with condemned men being ‘ granted their last wish before they die ’ , but it is also a strong expression of trying to anticipate impending loss . |
| 22 | He switched on the radio and they listened without speaking for a while , and Juliet forgot he had n't answered her last statement . |
| 23 | By 1939 she had made her last film . |
| 24 | ‘ When I rang up Decin late in the evening and heard that the picture had made its last journey back home in the company of highly explosive gas containers , I said a silent prayer and sang halleluia three times ’ , said the dowager Fürstin Zita von Thun-Hohenstein . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'm to stay with my friend , you remember , I told you I 'd met her last week ? |
| 26 | Impact occurred near Hochwald after the aircraft had apparently began its last attempt at an ILS approach from the BS beacon instead of the BN |
| 27 | I thought she might have said something last year cos I was leaving . |
| 28 | Yes , I done it last night |
| 29 | Oh , then I ought to have done it last night . |
| 30 | Should of done it last night when it was empty then . |