Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [verb] the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | I helped to win the last one , I shall help to win the next one . |
| 2 | I woke sensing the last one |
| 3 | ‘ I thought I 'd seen the last of this particular fashion accessory . ’ |
| 4 | Crawled until I could see the arrow only because it was pale against the bark , and knew I was already further away than when I 'd taken the last bearing . |
| 5 | It was so bad , I 'd be looking forward to the next meal before I 'd finished the last one , ’ she says . |
| 6 | After I 'd spent the last two days setting it up ? ’ |
| 7 | That is why I had to spend the last half an hour intervening and telephoning both Departments to try to deal with the problem . |
| 8 | I had enjoyed the last two months greatly but the journey , though arduous , had involved no real danger . |
| 9 | I had remembered the last time I had stood in a garden with a man . |
| 10 | I felt that he thought I wanted to run the last leg for the glory . |
| 11 | However , the secretary-general of Hezbollah , Sheikh Abbas Musawi , said on Nov. 20 that the fate of the Western hostages was no longer linked to that of Arabs held by Israel , a declaration which appeared to remove the last political obstacle to the resolution of the hostage issue . |
| 12 | Despite the increasing difficulties which Edward faced in financing his wars in Scotland , the parliaments of these years are free of the political and constitutional arguments which had characterized the last years of Edward I 's reign . |
| 13 | At a rally attended by hundreds of Labour supporters from the arts , showbusiness and sport , he said that a Labour government would be in stark contrast to the ‘ vanity and self-interest ’ which had characterised the last 13 years . |
| 14 | He pledged Labour in power would willingly listen to the voice of the people , in stark contrast to the ‘ vanity and self-interest ’ which had characterised the last 13 years of Conservative rule . |
| 15 | The battles between Fascists and the Left which began in 1934 looked superficially like those which had marked the last years of the Weimar republic . |
| 16 | It was just in the process of digesting the Islamic revolution which had set the last of the Shahs , Muhammad Reza , on his unhappy way to exile , illness and death , the last finally overtaking him in Egypt . |
| 17 | The conference , the first of its kind openly held in Iraq , brought together all major opposition parties including several based in Iran , Saudi Arabia and Syria which had boycotted the last major opposition conference held in Vienna in June [ see p. 38985 ] . |
| 18 | ( If you tried to swap the last column of a table without doing so you would jumble up your text ) |
| 19 | Had n't she thought she 'd seen the last of Rourke Deveraugh ? |
| 20 | She really had thought she 'd heard the last of that voice . |
| 21 | Sophie nodded as she finished examining the last one . |
| 22 | We all thought that Trotsky could have run rings round him , but it was Stalin who survived to wreck the last few hopes of the Revolution and now to swallow up Eastern Europe . ’ |
| 23 | Well , to hell with you , sweetheart , she railed , and , her pride once more up in arms , a certainty in her head that she had seen the last of Ven for that night , she rocketed from her bed , took a shower , and got dressed . |
| 24 | The recent spell of warm weather was holding and Julie Murchison was feeling good in spite of the fact that she had spent the last hour in her Mother 's sick room . |
| 25 | A woman told how she had spent the last fifteen years of her life ‘ allowing my husband to make choices for me ’ . |
| 26 | She had spent the last ten days in bed , suffering from shock , the after-reaction fierce , frightening . |
| 27 | Only when she was halfway there did she remember that this , after all , was n't Chipchester , where she had spent the last six months at college — nor even Athens , where at least the drivers and pedestrians expected to engage in constant warfare — and that perhaps she should have checked the traffic before crossing … |
| 28 | She had spent the last six months learning to help many such at St Sylvester 's . |
| 29 | Co-director Deborah Coles recounted how she had spent the last 3 days attending the inquest on a man known to be at risk , who committed suicide in prison . |
| 30 | By the time she had rolled the last lump of dog food into the canal , the sun was beginning to rise in the east . |