Example sentences of "[verb] on [pron] last [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The instrument which Holly used on his last tour is on display in a music museum in Texas . |
| 2 | We were caught on our last night at Dhundi by the first of seven days bad weather . |
| 3 | So she concentrated on his last remark . |
| 4 | He might be back to normal , but Robbie had n't forgotten the way he 'd turned on her last night . |
| 5 | She visualised the copy of Cross 's Dictionary of the Christian Church which she had noticed on her last visit . |
| 6 | Midway through Friday afternoon , the early-shift newsreader watched the red transmission light die on her last bulletin of the day and sat back from the microphone with a sigh of relief . |
| 7 | But still the urge to express her feelings tormented her and at last , in defiance of that dislike she had felt on their last meeting , she sat down and wrote to the person to whom she had once been most close , to Mrs Browning . |
| 8 | In 1886 he came on his last lecture tour , managed by Pond , and at the invitation of Parker . |
| 9 | Rather desperately , Celia steered the conversation round to her and Brian 's new house in the country , how Alison and Geoffrey must come and stay , that they would be less than fifty miles apart ; while Alison , obviously thankful to turn to less delicate matters , regaled her with a description of all she had been doing in her garden and some rather dull anecdotes about the neighbours whom Celia and Brian had met on their last visit . |
| 10 | He met Agnes , the brazen lady-in-waiting , whom he had met on his last visit to Kinghorn . |
| 11 | TYNEMOUTH beer festival had a curfew imposed on it last month by local magistrates . |
| 12 | In her own flat , although she normally drank very little , she took one of her best cut-glass tumblers and poured herself a stiff whisky — Laphroaig , bought on her last trip abroad . |
| 13 | As I said the er , the trolley buses were being phased out and the buses , the motor buses were being used more than ever and I do n't know the date of the last trolley bus running but I well remember it being reported time , it was the erm , bus was packed on its last journey from Electric House and people were photographing it . |
| 14 | Based on his last year 's , er , earnings , yeah . |
| 15 | Very shortly before Maxwell embarked on his last voyage on the Lady Ghislaine he was discussing legal matters with the Legal Director of Mirror Group Newspapers , Arthur Davidson . |
| 16 | It dawned on me last season , as we took a first-minute lead over Carlton Town West Saxons , that perhaps it was Fate that plucked pink , 544 , from the hat . |
| 17 | Remembering the knife he had displayed on our last night in Valladolid , I took fright and denied it . |
| 18 | Prof. Graham Street of Kirkdale had the title Richard Lines Professor of Biochemical Engineering conferred on him last week . |
| 19 | Of the drought he had experienced on his last visit , Gould wrote that , ’ It is easier for the imagination to conceive than the pen to depict the horrors of so dreadful a visitation . ’ |
| 20 | The cameraman and sound recordist were mugged on their last day in Pittsburgh . |
| 21 | Of course , the Prince himself has not yet been spoken to , but his secretary , Chang Shih-sen advises me that the copies he was given on his last visit are gone . ’ |
| 22 | I went down to the tap room and ordered a meal though I was hungrier for the dark-eyed slattern I had glimpsed on my last visit with Benjamin . |
| 23 | Uncomfortable memories of what had happened on his last visit to the Mar Girgis flooded into Owen 's mind . |
| 24 | They wept on their last day of work : ‘ I felt terrible ’ ; ‘ it seemed as though you were suddenly cut off from life . ’ |
| 25 | Michael Jackson reportedly paid a backing musician £1 million for playing on his last tour . |
| 26 | Partner Philip Evans , Scott troop , will be trying to improve on his last year 's time of 35 hours . |
| 27 | While Mr Stych was canoeing back down a tributary of the Mackenzie– already dangerous with chunks of ice , to an appointment with a helicopter , Mr Frizzell was trying on his last year 's brocade waistcoat and finding it too small ; Mr MacDonald , Ian 's father , was winding up a trying compensation case for his insurance company at Vermilion ; and Mr MacDonald ( oil ) was trying to explain to his superiors in Sarnia , Ontario , why he must be back in a place like Tollemarche by the middle of December . |
| 28 | Here Robert Burns stayed on his last visit to Edinburgh in 1791 . |