Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [pron] last [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That aside , I think only a few would spare sympathy for him last week . |
| 2 | We had a visitor for our last day on the ranges : the Army Commander , Lieutenant-General Sir David Ramsbotham , who had commanded us in 3rd Armoured Division during our last tour in Germany , in 1985 . |
| 3 | GRANDMOTHER Phyllis O'Riley was cooking up a special present for herself last night after scooping the £10,000 jackpot on Mirror Bingo . |
| 4 | The tape was of an English band , given to her by Vasili for her last birthday , which had become her most cherished possession . |
| 5 | Five out of 18 ( 28% ) drug users were admitted to hospital with bacterial pneumonia in the four to six months between their last visit at which they were HIV negative and their first visit when they were HIV positive . |
| 6 | It also put them in a positive frame of mind for their last league game of the season , at home against bottom-of-the-table Eastleigh this Saturday . |
| 7 | One of the originals from Cnut 's reign ( S 974 ) looks as though the boundary clause was added later than the main text , for there is a distinct gap between its last word and the beginning of the dating clause . |
| 8 | The 24-hour gap between her last sighting and her murder suggests she may have been held prisoner before being killed . |
| 9 | Selected for Surrey during his last year at Repton School in 1904 , he went on to tour South Africa with MCC in 1905–06 and Australia in 1907–08 . |
| 10 | Yeah , we paid thirty eight pound off it last year . |
| 11 | Appropriately , this castle was the setting for his last exhibition , early this year , of the fabulous ‘ Winter images ’ that he had recently devoted his energies to — tableaus of men and animals created out of ice and snow . |
| 12 | She used that time wisely in assembling a cast of Roy 's friends including Robbie Robertson , Don Was , Jeff Lynne and K D Lang to complete unfinished tracks from the sessions for his last album , Mystery Girl . |
| 13 | If your bitch is not neutered , you should be aware of the possibility of this behavioural change occurring soon after the time when she would normally have given birth , just over two months after her last heat . |
| 14 | But 15 months after his last appearance in the ring he still takes pride in being called a boxer . |
| 15 | By then he was forty-two years old , he was tired of the strains of FI racing , his kids were grown up and beginning to race themselves , his business interests ( and , by now , his reputation ) were all in the USA and , as he said phlegmatically at Las Vegas after his last race in FI , ‘ I just do n't see any reason to continue any more . |
| 16 | Sir Patrick , welcoming Irish Foreign Minister Dick Spring , rejected suggestions that relations between both Governments had been at a low ebb after their last talks in July and stressed that both were treating the worsening security situation ‘ very seriously ’ . |
| 17 | It had taken every ounce of courage she possessed to board the aircraft after her last experience . |
| 18 | I 've barely had time to wipe the blood off my axe after my last battle and it 's already time to hack my way through the next trail ! |
| 19 | She felt as guilty about running away as if she had just robbed a lame beggar of his last groat . |
| 20 | The 41 women who did not report the result of their last insemination cycle ( over the entire follow up period ) were recorded as not successful up to their last but one cycle . |
| 21 | He was the first to admit that he had been psychologically screwed-up when he joined them after eleven years with the elite American anti-terrorist squad , Delta — a state of mind that had come about as a result of his last Delta mission . |
| 22 | By the power of his mind , he had the ability to focus a film-like apparition of their last hours on a blank wall … there , quite clearly , were Mallory and Irvine with their backs to the summit , which was a small distance above them … ’ ’ |
| 23 | When Mala switched off , there was none of the intimate cosiness of her last talk with Chertro . |
| 24 | ‘ The club can not afford a repeat of their last promotion success . |
| 25 | Actually , I 'm feeling well , ’ she managed to retort coolly , succeeding after an immense effort to blot out the powerful sensual images of their last night in St Lucia . |
| 26 | Goldberg , images of their last meeting in the narrow entrance of the elegant little Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art dancing in his head , slipped a sheet of A4 into his old Olivetti portable and started to transcribe . |
| 27 | Her faith in him was severely tested later , especially in 1908 and again in 1913 ; but she drew on deep reservoirs of resilience until the anxieties of his last year as a soldier began to sap her energies as housekeeper , mother , and gardener . |
| 28 | ‘ They were strong and we were lucky to get a result against them last week . ’ |
| 29 | But then I just , oh shit and yeah I wish you were at the shack with me last night it would have sorted them out . |
| 30 | I listened to the tape with her last night . |