Example sentences of "[vb pp] his last [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ Pay Homage should have won his last race at Goodwood and he 's been in fine form all year , ’ Ian said . |
| 3 | In 1799 as the new century dawned , Arthur Guinness , then seventy four , brewed his last ale . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 " . |
| 6 | Victor Frankenstein died a few hours after he had written his last word . |
| 7 | Perhaps he had believed he was to go with the main reconnaissance party , and having written his last letter did not like to write to me again to cause me what he thought would be further confusion and anxiety . |
| 8 | He wanted to settle , once and for all , the question of whether Riddle had made his last journey inside the Wheel and for that reason he was resolved to have it closely examined by an expert . |
| 9 | Old ships never die and doubtless she is still knocking around the East Coast , though I suppose old Payne may have made his last port by now I should be interested in an oil painting on canvas , or board ( which I suppose would come a bit cheaper ! ! ) showing her beating around the Foreland under sail in fairly heavy weather , say Force 6 … ’ |
| 10 | When I spoke to his assistant she told he had said his last word on the subject and did not want to hear of it again . |
| 11 | Only a year earlier he had performed his last hat-trick . |
| 12 | Duvall had used his last shell on the thing downstairs without realising . |
| 13 | The dinghy had floated right down to him and he had used his last reserves of energy to clamber into it . |
| 14 | Transfer-listed Bernie Slaven could have played his last game for Middlesbrough . |
| 15 | COVENTRY City 's highly-rated striker Kevin Gallacher conceded last night that he may have played his last game for the Sky Blues . |
| 16 | I reckon Wetherall and Kelly seem good prospects , Sterland has probably played his last game , Newsome is not ( yet ? ) up to standard . |
| 17 | And veteran player David McCreery could also figure in Feetham 's future after announcing last night he has played his last game for Hartlepool United . |
| 18 | He had spoken his last words . |
| 19 | Huy had spoken his last words quite automatically ; but their utterance made him realise in what world he now lived . |
| 20 | Today marked his last test flight from the station and the Jaguar pilots wanted to mark the end of a career which started with their squadron 25 years ago . |
| 21 | They could hope to learn later where Berowne had spent his last day on earth . |
| 22 | Shortly after Frank 's release our belief that there was another hostage in the apartment was borne out when he was moved into the room next door where Frank had spent his last day . |
| 23 | Conscious that she had been crawling around in the hot sunshine for some time without a hat , she retired a short distance to the shade of some trees , sat down on a convenient boulder and tried to conjecture how Alain Gebrec might have spent his last moments . |
| 24 | Before the screenplay could be completed Lee died , in 1987 , aged sixty-three , having spent his last years living peacefully in Arizona , far away from the madness of Hollywood . |
| 25 | He had spent his last years under effective house arrest at his home in Kufa . |
| 26 | Zafonic may have run his last race in Britain . |
| 27 | As you can see , if West had led his last spade dummy would have been forced to ruff and successfully play the ace of clubs . |
| 28 | Robyn followed as a determined Melissa led Luke , whose expression resembled that of a prisoner about to be given his last rites , across the field and in through the french windows . |
| 29 | At the last minute the convention 's keynote speaker for Sunday 26 April was taken ill , and her replacement turned out to be Mr John Frohnmayer , the dismissed chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts who , although not scheduled to leave his post officially until a few days later , had actually worked his last day the previous Friday . |
| 30 | With the leashing Trent had lost his last hope of escape . |