Example sentences of "[verb] she [prep] [art] last " in BNC.
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1 | Mota , from Portugal , suffered yet again with a mysterious stomach complaint , which affected her during the last world championships . |
2 | That was it until handover on Monday , which she hoped would be enough time to shake off the cold that had been dogging her for the last couple of days . |
3 | Persistent colds , coughs and a temperature have dogged her for the last year . |
4 | I kissed her for the last time as she lay in her hospital bed : the bedclothes were crisp and undisturbed , and she looked very clean , just as she would have wanted to ; and very small , because she was so old , and having started life none too big had ended up , at the age of ninety-one , not much bigger than a child . |
5 | Rain watched her for the last few yards , noting how the morning 's cheerfulness had been replaced by anxiety . |
6 | He led her to the last desk in the line , on which she could see a sheaf of pink sheets of paper . |
7 | It had been uppermost in her mind to ask about Marc , but her courage failed her at the last . |
8 | After the meeting a lot of people wanted to talk to Karen and ask her about the last few days . |
9 | He wanted to dissipate it and leave her with a last impression of him that was not totally unpleasant . |
10 | Walking slowly up and down the old stone terrace , Laura tried to empty her mind — to banish the sick feelings of fear and apprehension which had haunted her during the last week . |
11 | Thus it is that the Tamar , beautiful as the nymph whose name she bears , winds her way from the rugged north coast between the hills , to be joined by the Tavy , flowing from Dartmoor to join her for the last few miles to the sea , while the luckless Torridge flows ever northward in vain pursuit of Tamara 's beauty . |
12 | These mementos evoke both respectful memories and an insight into the changes of the woman 's role up to the certain ‘ decadence ’ , where the family is slowly fading wither her as a last , childless descendant . |
13 | Miss Coldharbour had recruited her at the last moment to help serve supper for Canon Wheeler 's guests who included the Bishop and the Earl of Medewich and Markham . |
14 | Suzanne Greenhill , 20 , had been blindfolded — depriving her of the last sense she could have used to identify the attacker — and her underwear had been stuffed in her mouth . |