Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [prep] [pos pn] last " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did not want to worry him in his last moments , so I did not tell him that Linton was also dying . |
| 2 | The 24-year-old Iro picked up the injury playing against Great Britain in the second Test in Auckland in July and aggravated it in his last match for Manly three weeks ago . |
| 3 | He picked up the injury playing against Great Britain in July and aggravated it in his last match for Manly . |
| 4 | I think you told me in your last letter that he is having dinner with the Stapletons tomorrow evening . ’ |
| 5 | During the coming weeks , as I told you in our last programme , we are going to talk with people from outside the university who have contacts with us . |
| 6 | he deserves a happier memorial than the one afforded him by his last few crazy hours on the dance-floor and the street . |
| 7 | But by the end she chose to overplay her hand and lost the sympathy of those who could have saved her from her last indignities — though perhaps not from the bottle . |
| 8 | Glenn Gould played this regularly , even recorded it ( two movements on Le Chant du Monde CD LDC278 799 , 10/86 ) and played it at his last public concert in 1964 . |
| 9 | J.D. had told her on her last visit , when she had handed in the column she had just read , that there had been a large number of letters about Vesta 's contribution and he would be publishing some of them in the next issue . |
| 10 | I give it to her last night she , when she left here . |
| 11 | She mostly calls me by my last name . |
| 12 | Read the first paragraph again , but do n't copy it into your last paragraph . |
| 13 | Kohl , in eastern Germany for the first time since the December 1990 general election , was jeered and pelted with eggs by several hundred protesters on April 7 in Erfurt ( where enthusiastic crowds of over 100,000 had greeted him on his last visit in February 1990 — see p. 37260 ) . |
| 14 | Here the good sisters comforted us on our last journey with a manchet of bread and a cup of wine . |
| 15 | We were delighted to see her at our last Qualified Teachers ' Day . |
| 16 | When Monmouth was executed , Ken was sent for to attend him in his last hours . |
| 17 | If inviting an elderly parent to come to live with you in your own home seems to be the best way of helping her in her last years , the first overtures you make to her on this subject need to be very tactful , bearing all the hallmarks of a really welcoming invitation . |
| 18 | I met him on my last visit to Glasgow recently : a jolly , likeable man today . |
| 19 | Our friends told him that they were sure nobody had followed them since our last meeting . |
| 20 | ‘ Did they tell you about his Last Words ? ’ |
| 21 | He seems to think he has the moral right to usurp him , completely ignoring the woman who nurtured him through his last worst year . |
| 22 | No , I trimmed it for her last week |
| 23 | I felt it during my last year at Ladymont . |
| 24 | In Huarina the tarmac was abandoned for the dirt road that would take us through Achacachi , honouring us with our last good look at the Ancohuma massif before we rolled endlessly down to Sorata and the warm , wetting mists of Yungas . |
| 25 | ‘ Remind me of your last line , Victor . ’ |
| 26 | There were candles and matches on a ledge just inside the front door where she had left them on her last visit , for Lydia was in fact a sufficiently practical person and not the ass she sometimes chose to appear . |
| 27 | That reminded her of their last argument . |
| 28 | How deep such bonds could go is suggested by a Sussex carter 's grandson who had been ‘ very happy ’ as a child brought up by his grandparents , ‘ much attached ’ to them , and who writes of how he later found a house for his ageing grandmother close to his own and nursed her through her last illness : ‘ no mother could have been more kind . ’ |
| 29 | My dear wife , Lucy , bought me a special phone-attachment — bought it for my last birthday , bless her heart . ’ |
| 30 | Could he be sure they had emptied it of its last sheet ? |