Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] the last [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Erm but er I think when you say about being confrontational there 's if you 've got a client in front of you the last thing that you want to do is have erm a confrontation with them |
2 | I mean I have n't been to Guildford for oh god I do n't know when I think probably with you the last time I went to Guildford . |
3 | The tariff policy therefore carried with it the last hope of consolidating the Empire and the last hope of reversing the drift into class politics ; as a pessimist , Law saw further ahead than most of his contemporaries , and events proved him to be more nearly right than they were . |
4 | Each time , like , I 've learned not to do this because that 's what got me back into it the last time . |
5 | Who had seen enacted before him the last skirmish in the war which had now given him his own longed-for kingdom of Cyprus . |
6 | In the same month , in what was for her the last term of her formal education , Alix became engaged to Sebastian Manning . |
7 | In other words , rats with hippocampal lesions have difficulty in refraining from punished responses because they can not remember what happened to them the last time that they did whatever it was that led to the punishment . |
8 | Encourage the person to speak-when they stop or get stuck , allow them time to think and repeat back to them the last thing they said to help them find their flow . |
9 | To me the last part of the poem is the one that really contains the message of futility suggested by the title : |
10 | Remembering what had happened to me the last time I entered this unhappy house , remembering too that I was an escaped jailbird , whom most of the Frankenstein menage would not hesitate to give back into custody , I decided that the wisest course was to keep the place under observation and wait until I could be sure to speak to Victor . |
11 | ‘ See , ’ said Renwick pointing to his balding pate , ‘ that 's what happened to me the last time I did n't stop ! ’ |
12 | She 's just , that 's just pulling their mind you I did say to her the last straw was Christmas day , can you imagine like , I mean me and him did n't have to , I did n't have to stay in and cook dinner , I done it cos she was there we 'd all be together , she did n't fucking come home . |
13 | What had the vacillating vamp said to her the last time they were together ? |
14 | With all these new developments pressing in on him the last thing he could afford was an afternoon off work . |