Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] the last [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I destroyed the last vestiges of that organisation two days back . |
| 2 | Two years ago the same infections almost killed her and she received the last rites . |
| 3 | The Northern Echo published details of how she spent the last hours of her life on a shopping trip with her friend , Veronica Alderson , from Kirk Merrington . |
| 4 | She watched the last races and the diving display . |
| 5 | Finally she reached the last notes , and took a final bow , practically flinging the microphone at Candy , who had stepped on stage to act as compère . |
| 6 | We passed the last houses , the last streetlights . |
| 7 | As we approach the last years of the 20th century , environmental damage to the earth , air and water threaten the basic resources on which we depend . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ They received the last rites and a blessing ? ’ |
| 9 | They bought the last chips that were available in Phyl 's Phries and at one o'clock they drifted apart , not satisfied with their night out . |
| 10 | Alan Calladine , the Midland Railway Trust 's Development officer , commented : ‘ There is no doubt that this machine is one of the more important items in our collection , as it represents the last stages of steam locomotive production from the Derby Locomotive Works . |
| 11 | it was like Windows One that was it said the last Windows version that would run on Two Eight Sixes . |
| 12 | Set in a WWI officer 's prisoner of war camp it shows the last veneers of a chivalrous , civilised Europe being ripped away by the black talons of mechanised war . |
| 13 | The trial proved an immense strain , and he spent the last months of his life confined to a wheelchair . |
| 14 | JB , who lives with his publican owners , always makes a bee-line for the regulars as soon as he hears the last orders bell . |
| 15 | He spoke the last words grimly . |
| 16 | He was looking , without seeming to look , at Andropulos as he said the last words and felt almost certain that he saw a flicker of expression cross his face . |
| 17 | He wrote the last words of The Amateur Poacher — a gospel , an incantation — as an epigraph on all his own books . |
| 18 | Let us leave the last words with Walter Abish who declares that ‘ the innovative novel is , in essence , a novel of disfamiliarization , a novel that has ceased to concern itself with the mapping of the ‘ familiar ’ world ’ ( Martin 1983 : 238 ) . |