Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [pron] last [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I suppose it must have been because a string of boyfriends seemed quite willing to spend their last penny on her before going off to the front . |
| 2 | When it was not appropriate to have it last week , my hon. Friend the Member for Leicestershire , North-West ( Mr. Ashby ) made the facility available this evening . |
| 3 | ‘ We were certainly quite lucky to beat them last week . ’ |
| 4 | I was glad to get your last letter , which sounded so much more cheerful and relaxed than the first . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm sorry , Claudia ; Dana was supposed to tell you last night . |
| 6 | Taff 's first remark was ‘ I wonder how many copped it last night , Piper ? ’ |
| 7 | Leeds did great to win it last year , but it will be much harder the second time around . |
| 8 | Violet Needham was by then sixty-three , but for the next eighteen years she produced on average a book a year ; not until she was eighty-one did her last book , The Sword of St Cyprian , have to be turned down because her powers were failing . |
| 9 | It was good to get your last letter with news of all the family . |
| 10 | KING CHARLES I spent his last days and very last night as a free man in Stamford at the house of Alderman Richard Wolph in Barn Hill ( on the site of the present Stukeley House ) . |
| 11 | He was more concerned to get her last report on Michael Morrissey who , now he told her , had a grown brother in the IRA and so , as the Head put it , the family had been made unwelcome in Northern Ireland . |
| 12 | Then at the Nürburgring , the 003 ran its last race , with Regazzoni pushing him off . |
| 13 | ‘ He first contacted us last year , shortly after Clare Mallender 's death . |
| 14 | Although there had been some good reports from other growers we were not happy with crop or , particularly , flavour when we first grew it last year — 1990 . |
| 15 | It did n't finish till five to twelve did it last Sunday ? |
| 16 | ‘ I was half inclined to believe you last night until I received these this morning , ’ he said , and the hidden violence in his voice made her go cold . |
| 17 | PUCCI For those too young to remember them last time , or those too eccentric to care . |
| 18 | Piccadilly Circus is the traditional haunt of busloads of Day-Glo-rucksacked European schoolchildren loitering with intent to spend their last tenner on a Sex Pistols T-shirt . |
| 19 | The British politician Geoffrey Howe said in an interview on television : ‘ We thought it was right to come to a decision when I next met them last night . ’ |
| 20 | Many thousands paid their last respects to Dubcek at his funeral in Bratislava on Nov. 15 . |
| 21 | The PowerOpen Association Inc unveiled itself last week with five sponsor members — Apple , Bull , IBM , Motorola and Thomson-CSF — spending an initial $750,000 and annual $250,000 to fund the Billerica , Massachusetts-based outfit . |
| 22 | It was intimidatory bowling of the worst sort against two brave batsmen who , as it turned out , were both playing their last Test innings . |
| 23 | ‘ Come along , Emily , dear , ’ Aunt Sophie was at her side , catching her arm , leading her back into the centre of the room where the vicar stood over the coffin , ready to pay his last respects to Thomas Grenfell . |
| 24 | Then back home for DINNER , while it 's still BRIGHT , both contain my last letter — have you guessed right ? |