Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [pron] last [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Partner Ferdinand has had his back to the wall in the last few months , a troublesome disc plaguing his attempts to establish himself last spring and resulting in him coming home early from America . |
| 2 | Constance detected a change in the atmosphere as Giancarlo excused himself and walked down the steps to greet his last guest . |
| 3 | Substantial increases on the previous year were made by 446 Branches , 138 Branches sustained their last year 's contribution , which in many cases had already been a record , and only 43 were significantly down . |
| 4 | Many Titfords from a number of family branches found their last resting place at Abney Park . |
| 5 | The land became active at dusk : oxen appeared in their fields , and buffaloes having their last feed before being led home after the day 's grazing . |
| 6 | DRIVERS have their last chance to use two of Darlington 's busiest streets at peak traffic times this weekend . |
| 7 | WITH Andy Gregory , the Wigan scrum-half , confirming yesterday he would be in contention for Great Britain 's summer tour squad to be announced on Monday , the fringe contenders have their last chance to impress over the weekend . |
| 8 | Despite this growing equality of method of contraception , in the 1970s about 20 per cent of the wives of non-manual workers , 27 per cent of the wives of skilled manual workers , and 47 per cent of the wives of unskilled manual workers said their last pregnancy was unintended ( Dunnell 1979 ) . |
| 9 | During the weekend of the Windsor fire , she and her sons spent their last weekend there together — so Diana could pack up her belongings and move them all back to London . |
| 10 | On the walls of her room , there are posters from the time she was Ma'moiselle de Paris , and the going was good , before the theatre attendances dwindled and the managers played their last card , the posing nude . |
| 11 | The Moors prepare their last surrender . |
| 12 | Weakened by the capitulation of some of the bigger firms , the remaining master printers conceded their last point , about the machines . |
| 13 | There are also plans to turn his last film Hairspray into a Broadway musical , but we Brits can now enjoy it at home : Hairspray , Polyester , and Female Trouble are all out on video at £9.99 each . |
| 14 | A total of 40.7% of respondents chose their last holiday on the basis that they had done the same before and enjoyed it ; 19.7% went somewhere where they had always wanted to go ; and 17.9% went on a word-of-mouth recommendation . |
| 15 | RCA in America claim to have spent half a million dollars promoting my last album but it was obviously money spent in stupid ways . |
| 16 | OVERNIGHT care for remand prisoners at Saughton prison in Edinburgh , where four men killed themselves last year , should be reviewed immediately , a sheriff said yesterday . |
| 17 | I think they have most people fooled but boy did the turks show them last evening . |
| 18 | Watt 's Nine Men ( 1943 ) depicts a group of soldiers making their last stand in a desert hut , which has a dramatic intensity that pushes it to the edge of documentary fiction . |
| 19 | But even though the makers recalled them last year to be modified , more than 35,000 still have not been returned . |