Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] last " in BNC.
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| 1 | I found them at last . |
| 2 | Now then , that new vending machine I told you about last time . |
| 3 | I must have bloody done so , because they both produced contracts and five or six witnesses who swore that , although I was completely paralytic , I signed them on last Monday night at the Duck and Forceps . |
| 4 | I remember you from last time , but |
| 5 | That militant Forbes — you know , the one I warned you about last week — has called all the food and beverage staff out on strike ! ’ |
| 6 | My eye followed the light cloud of her smoke , now here , now there , above the plain , according to the devious curves of the stream , but always fainter and farther away , till I lost it at last behind the mitre-shaped hill of the great pagoda ( 6 ) . |
| 7 | Other sentences have a similar type of structure , and tend to end in a similar evocation of vastness and remoteness , as the eye reaches its limit of vision : " under the enormous dome of the sky " ; " the monotonous sweep of the horizon " ; " as if the impassive earth had swallowed her up without an effort , without a tremor " ; " till I lost it at last behind the mitre-shaped hill of the great pagoda " . |
| 8 | I therefore welcome his belated decision to take part in a full debate and the fact that he is now — I quote him from last week — keen to acknowledge that there is always room for constitutional change . |
| 9 | ‘ Now that I have you at last you 'll never be away from me again . ’ |
| 10 | Mark Roe was altogether more scathing about the problem after a first round of 85 which left him in last place in the field . |
| 11 | ‘ You told him about last night ? ’ |
| 12 | Have you got it from last wee the week before ? |
| 13 | She heard me at last . |
| 14 | She saw him at last , but she did n't signal back , she clutched her bag and froze , staring , and the man beside her turned round . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's lovely , ’ she answered him at last , in a brisk , matter-of-fact tone that concealed , she hoped , all that she was feeling . |
| 16 | During a mad session I finally made one after two weeks of trying and came down and a guy called Matt said ‘ Yeah you did it at last ’ . |
| 17 | No cos I did n't know you wanted them till last week did I ? |
| 18 | There were many shrewd operators who backed him for last season 's Grand National and they will be doing so again . |
| 19 | oh I 'll have to have look down there then , cos we buy 'em , now where do we get 'em from now ? , er Co-Op we got 'em from last time did n't we ? |
| 20 | Glaring from one to the other as they stood on either side of the bed , she said crossly to Lucy , ‘ So you 've brought him to see me at last . |
| 21 | Aware only of the bumping of her heart and the pressuring of his mouth on hers even as he carried her through interminable pathways to the journey 's end , Sarella felt him lower her at last on to his bed . |
| 22 | But I do n't know if it 's still there , is thing they put it in last year I think , but I . |
| 23 | They reminded her of last night , and the feeling of walking in the moonless night with her own arm intertwined with Miguelito 's . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'm not going to worry about it now , ’ said Pam , resolutely , ‘ but if they leave it like last time , I 'll kill them . ’ |
| 25 | After several attempts he got him at last on a bad telephone line . |
| 26 | What would he do with Harry 's body when he found it at last , but toss it back again to go downstream as he willed it to go , and leave its poor slender bones scattered all along the banks of Severn without a name or a resting-place ? |