Example sentences of "[verb] in [pron] last [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Statistically , Oxted Green ‘ B ’ can be denied promotion from division three but it is highly unlikely that they will fall in their last match . |
| 2 | The baroque curlicue I have added to this criterion lies in its last words . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | What had he done in his last incarnation to deserve it ? |
| 9 | What did you do in your last job ? |
| 10 | The king 's death had not , however , cancelled the grant of a tax on aliens granted in his last parliament and this fell due at Midsummer , although £400 was already assigned to the household and the remainder apparently earmarked for the coronation . |
| 11 | The king 's death had not , however , cancelled the grant of a tax on aliens granted in his last parliament and this fell due at Midsummer , although £400 was already assigned to the household and the remainder apparently earmarked for the coronation . |
| 12 | Yet to convince you that the claim I have made in my last paragraph is justifiable would require a full-length monograph at least as long as my Political Systems of Highland Burma which is itself a fair-sized and relevant monograph entirely devoted to the affairs of the Kachin . |
| 13 | It adds that inflation is likely to be higher and domestic demand slower than it predicted in its last report six months ago . |
| 14 | Make some snide remark about what happened in her last school . ’ |
| 15 | We will see in our last chapter that the little book of Jonah , too , has its own challenge to make , and a quite devastating one at that . |
| 16 | ‘ America has a lot of assets , ’ he claimed in his last speech to congress , ‘ we should cash in on them . ’ |
| 17 | First , how far the skills and experience acquired and used in your last job match up to those necessary to the new job , so that the transition will be relatively simple and there will not be too much disruption while you learn the ropes . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Yeah , I like , I remember in it last time . |
| 20 | No , for the reason given in my last answer . |
| 21 | ‘ Mike , that £400,000 sits in our last year 's accounts as an asset — a debt someone owes us . |
| 22 | The right hon. Gentleman also knows that we have provided more additional resources in this Parliament than he was even prepared to promise in his last election manifesto . |
| 23 | We leaned on the railing , and peered down through the littered lattice of cross-angled trees , their backs broken in their last attempt to scramble up the cliff . |
| 24 | ‘ It will suit as much as them to have the fight later because it will give John that little bit more time to prepare after having his jaw broken in his last fight . ’ |
| 25 | Now one can make judgments about means and indeed as I was saying in my last lecture , the actual capability of the weapons you have can only really be found out when you use them and then you can see , very often , that they are in fact ineffective . |
| 26 | Now one can make judgments about means and indeed as I was saying in my last lecture , the actual capability of the weapons you have can only really be found out when you use them and then you can see , very often , that they are in fact ineffective . |
| 27 | ‘ Yet we won in Bucharest with a great Jimmy Quinn goal and earned the point we needed in our last game at Wembley to go through — thanks to a brilliant goalkeeping display from Pat Jennings . |
| 28 | But I looked to a philosophical point of view more comprehensive even than that of the early Collingwood , and I thought I had found the germ of it in the lectures he delivered in my last year on ‘ Nature and Mind ’ . |
| 29 | It will total about £59 million , which compares favourably with the measly £3 million that Labour spent in its last year in office . |
| 30 | Osvaldo , said Martinho , had only really bloomed in his last year at the seminary and — truly — in Africa . |