Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pron] last [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The baroque curlicue I have added to this criterion lies in its last words . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | A short time before his death Harry Chapman had left his Hampshire rest home to stay at Herbert 's home in Oakwood , Leeds , and the care with which he was attended in his last days showed his elder brother 's family loyalty and devotion . |
| 5 | He had been twenty-one when he died of leukaemia , and I had had to help with his last offices and was then sent to escort his body to the mortuary . |
| 6 | On the particular afternoon to which I am referring , his lordship would still have been in his mid-fifties ; but as I recall , his hair had greyed entirely and his tall slender figure already bore signs of the stoop that was to become so pronounced in his last years . |
| 7 | The whole sorry enterprise generated a cynicism that was to be heightened by the Watergate scandal , which emerged as the tragedy of Vietnam was moving to its last stages ( p. 104 ) . |
| 8 | I was not of that minority , but the argument sharpened my concern for the education of the most-talented pupils — a concern that was to run through my last years in Banbury and into my work in Oxford . |
| 9 | Bowesfield headteacher George Aitken said said : ‘ This started at my last governors ’ meeting . |
| 10 | However , it gradually fell into disuse and was finally abandoned by its last users , the public notaries , in the sixteenth century . |
| 11 | I have been a lifelong Labour supporter , but I have to say that under the present Government I was able to save in my last years at work without seeing my savings disappear in inflation . |
| 12 | It is this later Holiday which most recognise and her admirers point to her last years as her most compelling . |
| 13 | If the exiled son were a soldier and died suddenly , as so often happened , a brother officer would write of his last hours to the sorrowing parents ( see chapter seven ) . |
| 14 | A big-built Scottish woman , who has been playing pool in the other section of the pub , crosses over to the east side of the bar and puts in her last orders . |
| 15 | She said after her last injuries in December 1991 : ‘ I guess I must be the unluckiest policewoman . |
| 16 | It never crossed my mind that I would ever recover from the suffering I underwent during my last days there , and especially my last hours . |
| 17 | His fame rests on the flurry of tracts he published in his last years , and little is known of his background . |
| 18 | He had never used her first name before , she realised , and the lilting sound of it on his lips sent a knife-sharp thrust of awareness through her , taking away any power to reply to his last words . |