Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pron] last [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Ground Reconnaissance From Public Transport ’ is the title of the pamphlet he produced for our last AGM . |
| 2 | At the McDermott-Scotland yard at Ardersier , near Inverness , 40 workers are to go after its last job , a jacket for Amerada Hess 's Scott oilfield , was shipped out on Tuesday . |
| 3 | One of the first things Tolkien did after his return to Oxford in 1925 was to set up an Icelandic reading group such as he had enjoyed during his last job , as Professor of English at Leeds . |
| 4 | His conduct of the crisis could be seen as a great achievement , yet something so negative and distasteful was not what he would have wished for his last service . |
| 5 | The next day we landed at Mackay and re-fuelled for our last leg . |
| 6 | If , however , you are considering applying during your last year at school for deferred entry , you are strongly advised to consult the faculty in which you intend to study . |
| 7 | Felix 's wife started talking about poetry , which she wrote , while Felix shouted about his last visit to Castro . |
| 8 | ‘ He came over and trained with us last week and he was looking fit . |
| 9 | Statistically , Oxted Green ‘ B ’ can be denied promotion from division three but it is highly unlikely that they will fall in their last match . |
| 10 | The baroque curlicue I have added to this criterion lies in its last words . |
| 11 | In 1879 Crookes sold the Quarterly Journal ; it lived on until 1885 , becoming in its last years a monthly-but it had never been a leading journal , and general scientific reviewing never caught on . |
| 12 | I got evicted from my last place I was at . |
| 13 | In Latin America , in North and South Africa , in some parts of Asia , and in the Australasian colonies , there had been tentative beginnings to railway-building in the middle of the century , but the great explosion of lines was not to come until its last decade . |
| 14 | Leavis , a radical socialist before 1950 , turned briefly liberal before adopting in his last years a bitterly conservative stance that favoured no party of state , hating economic growth and the European Community , so that long before his death in 1978 his idealism had been soured by the varied spectacle of human folly ; but though always outside religion , he was in no way hostile to it , and admired its moral seriousness . |
| 15 | I mentioned in my last letter to Fiona that Lord Lovat had been badly wounded during an attack on the enemy positions on the evening of 12th June . |
| 16 | You think of the glow of pride that still lingers from your last HVS triumph with embarrassment and try to console yourself with the mitigating circumstances of age , heavy work responsibilities , duty to family , your back problem … |
| 17 | We can stage a little comedy for ourselves if we pick out two expressions that I used in my last paragraph , and imagine ourselves presenting them to the startled and unwelcoming gaze of Max Beerbohm . |
| 18 | The instrument which Holly used on his last tour is on display in a music museum in Texas . |
| 19 | He had n't responded to her last shout . |
| 20 | Erm , because of the Nathan reports , I mentioned to you last year , we 're going to have to raise more money than we thought sometime ago . |
| 21 | We were caught on our last night at Dhundi by the first of seven days bad weather . |
| 22 | So she concentrated on his last remark . |
| 23 | WHAT next for Mike Morris , TV-am 's genial co-host , who tomorrow morning presides over his last breakfast show ? |
| 24 | Among other matters , the G-7 Finance Ministers reaffirmed their concern over the yen , although they noted that it had stabilized since their last meeting in April . |
| 25 | I managed to film this without Mr Bolt Head noticing at our last meeting . |
| 26 | Before her eyes arose a memory of how he had looked at her last night . |
| 27 | ‘ Your notes — those you made of your last reconnaissance flight … |
| 28 | But he answered all the difficult questions that Harvey Smith 's younger son asked of him last night to defeat a flying round from Philip Heffer on Viewpoint . |
| 29 | You were looking for it last night . |
| 30 | Also I know that my coach at North Harbour , Peter Thorburn , was very impressed with Ian when he played for us last summer . |