Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] for [art] last " in BNC.
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| 1 | I called for the last time at the first house in the village and pressed the buzzer , but on getting no reply resigned myself to the long walk down the mountain . |
| 2 | I went for the last fitting of my dress . |
| 3 | Professor Pearn and I had for the last ten years been interchangeably secretary and editor of the Burma Research Society , and when we discovered that the Society 's bank had been able to get our balance safely into India before the break-up , we conceived the plan of a series of Burma Pamphlets , describing various aspects of the national life . |
| 4 | At the door , she stopped for the last time . |
| 5 | She looked for the last time . |
| 6 | She went for a last walk with him — and they never returned . |
| 7 | She was living with her boyfriend as she had for the last eight years and the hospital team were quite happy to talk to him about the proposed care plan for her . |
| 8 | I think what I 'm trying to say is , in the minutes that we produced for the last meeting , it says that a copy of it will be available for the next meeting |
| 9 | So we went for a last look round . |
| 10 | Fred , of Fence Houses , County Durham , said : ‘ We queued for the last three weeks and left empty handed . |
| 11 | When , late that night , they parted for the last time , Baldwin 's words were a little rehearsed , but there nonetheless appears to have been genuine emotion on both sides . |
| 12 | The crew of the boat on which he was travelling attacked and were about to kill him when he asked for a last favour — to play a tune . |
| 13 | The route became circular in 1906 , going to Bolton Abbey and back , and in 1915 it changed for the last time . |
| 14 | It worked for the last World Cup , when the FA paid a £30,000-a-man bonus for reaching the semi-finals . |
| 15 | He looked for a last time at Lucille . |
| 16 | Throwing back his head , he looked for the last time at the cloud-torn sky , and begged the Lord to watch over them and keep them safe ; and then he was gone , and all that remained was the surging waves and the cold , white crests of foam . |
| 17 | Yesterday he smiled for the last time and said he did not wish to obstruct the work of Prime Minister Hans Modrow — who now constitutes , with a small group of associates from Dresden , the only remaining acceptable face of reform within the East German Communist Party . |
| 18 | As I understand it the Cleveland structure plan proposes the same number of dwellings for erm its next period which happens to be fourteen years , as it did for the last fourteen of the of the previous structure plan , fifteen thousand seven hundred . |
| 19 | The Gould machine was set like clockwork to continue ticking as methodically for the next two years as it had for the last eight . |
| 20 | For some reason , no one knew why , he had for the last four months taken to sleeping in the south porch . |
| 21 | He 'd have quite liked to have spent the night on the couch in Polly 's living room , as he had for the last few months of their marriage , but it had not been offered as an option and he supposed it was just as well . |
| 22 | In the editorial which he wrote for the last issue , he discussed the general political situation which had provoked in him a depression of spirit so different from anything he had experienced in the last fifty years as " to be a new emotion " ; but he also confessed to a feeling of staleness as editor . |
| 23 | As is usual with this event , everyone waited for the last competitors to finished , even though some took well over two hours . |