Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb infin] the last [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Can I have the last question ? |
| 2 | Do you want the last link in , link in the chain ? |
| 3 | A nice enough chap and he was knowledgeable in theory you see , but when it come to the practical experience and the practical doing of the work , he would just say , Well what did you do the last time Jimmy ? |
| 4 | Can you remember the last time you were given a hospital pass ? |
| 5 | Do n't you remember the last time it was so beautiful going across across at home . |
| 6 | Who did we see the last time we were here ? |
| 7 | So he ought , thought Sally-Anne , and so he is , and , desperate to change the conversation , to steer it away from dangerous ground , she said , as brightly as she could , through numb lips , ‘ Sha n't we miss the last horse bus home if we do n't leave soon ? ’ thinking how fortunate it was that Stair had not told Dr Neil the other heiress 's identity — Sally-Anne Tunstall might have been a dead give-away ; she really ought to have changed her Christian name . |
| 8 | But I could n't let them have the last letter . |
| 9 | Please help them go the last mile , by sending as much as you can . |
| 10 | They caught him unprepared , before he could blank out his mind , making him remember the last time he had heard that sort of ringing , last Sunday . |
| 11 | Why ca n't they go the last mile and ban him from bowling against England batsman who clearly would find reading Sanskrit easier than spotting than ‘ Hollywood 's ’ wrong ‘ un . |
| 12 | ‘ But how does it catch the last fish without losing those its already caught ? ’ |
| 13 | Boy did he have the last laugh . |
| 14 | Let us take the last point first , because land use itself , irrespective of how the fields are arranged or under what system they are worked , has interesting implications . |
| 15 | Let us leave the last word to Nietzsche , whose cruel intelligence is quickened only by the taste of bitter truths . |
| 16 | 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 ) . |