Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [art] last [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hellen has remained my favourite gourmet cook ever since , by which I mean the last 38 years . |
| 2 | A few miles outside Ulm in the little town of Rammingen I got the last available room in the Landgasthof Adler ( Eagle ) . |
| 3 | ‘ I found the last 20 minutes extremely hard but the lads gave me every encouragement and I am delighted , ’ he said . |
| 4 | Just before he reached it , I used the last two shots on my film , though at that distance I did n't think I 'd pick up much . |
| 5 | ‘ But I scored the last two goals in the second half . ’ |
| 6 | I have already quoted Mrs in her statement brackets C forty eight , saying although my husband and I would like to be able to care for Anna Jane as long as possible , I accept the last six years have taken their toll on us both and in reality it 's unlikely that we will continue to be able to provide the same level of care and outside is required , unquote . |
| 7 | He said : ‘ I was happy about my time but I have to admit that I walked the last two or three miles after I hit what they call ‘ the wall ’ . |
| 8 | ‘ I spent a last two days with my parents and Lily . |
| 9 | After counting the remaining rupees carefully , I spent the last free day in the company of a couple of young Seychellois who were going to an offshore reef to lift their fish-traps . |
| 10 | Of these , I believe the last two could be classified as ‘ irregulars ’ . |
| 11 | I FIND THE LAST 50 METRES THE HARDEST |
| 12 | I knew the last 10 minutes would be nervous both for the fans and the supporters , as had happened against Oldham the previous week . |
| 13 | I saw the last few minutes of the game when I got back from the pub last night and was amazed to hear some commentator say ‘ Manchester United have n't lost at home in the European Cup for 37 years ’ . |
| 14 | Blackburn could now get within 7 points — if anyone saw the game last night ( I saw the last 30 mins ) , when Liverpool scored their 3rd scums defence was absolutely sh*tting itself EVERY time someone put the ball into their area . |
| 15 | ‘ Forgive me , Marshal , but I thought the last two places were to be filled by working scientists . ’ |
| 16 | As the buzz or the haze receded , and as I chewed the last tasteless fragment of sandwiched thermoplastic , I steadied myself by counting the melamine tables and counting the chairs and counting the customers and counting the sticky sauce bottles and the dome-shaped salt cellars and the cups , the plates , the cutlery , the ashtrays , anything in sight . |
| 17 | As it lowered its wings in threat posture , I took a last few shots before backing away , mindful of Valdemar 's account of the owl which left long , bloody furrows up the back of a photographer who pushed his luck too far ! |
| 18 | Mind you , I think the last few years they they 'd sort of erm relaxed a bit more |
| 19 | We both started to laugh as I had the last few words on the subject . |
| 20 | ‘ The previous season I missed the last 12 games through a hernia operation and Achilles tendon trouble . |
| 21 | I missed the last three months of last season with a broken finger . |
| 22 | I drink the last few drops of water from my flask . |
| 23 | : the geology of the period which began two to three million years ago , and which contained the last major planetary ice age . |
| 24 | But it was a neat chaos of boxes piled on each other , cakes still in the tins they came in and hatboxes , one of which contained the last remaining ball of her long-ago childhood . |
| 25 | The relationship with the West , and since 1945 particularly with the US , has been the factor which sets the last 150 years of Japanese history apart from earlier centuries . |
| 26 | FROM THE home of the original Bambaataa the chieftain who led the last great Zulu revolt against white rule comes the African Hip Hop Movement . |
| 27 | It is very important for you to attend the last two or three lectures of the course . |
| 28 | Now one of the major issues that we 're concerned about of course is the overtime erm which is , if you review the last three months of the overtime which we did the other day , erm we obviously , we spent the annual budget erm allowance . |
| 29 | ‘ After all we are not just one people , we are also one city , ’ said one West Berliner , who described the last 24 hours as ‘ simply unbelievable ’ . |
| 30 | She cast a last anguished look around , imprinting the details of the woodland glade on her memory . |