Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [verb] [art] last " in BNC.
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| 1 | The trouble is , I ca n't for the life of me remember what I was wearing the last time I went to see Angy , or on the day she died . |
| 2 | I was digging the last row next to the gravel path when my father returned . |
| 3 | I I found it when I was driving the last time . |
| 4 | AS YOU WERE reading the last issue of Wood News with your feet up and drinking a cup of hot coffee , John Hill , coupling machine operator at Fireater , was running through the cold , wet weather of Great Yarmouth in training for the London marathon . |
| 5 | It was late in the day and she was taking the last of the sun . |
| 6 | And while she was having a whisky and eating a piece of cake at eleven o'clock , in a hapless impulse to demonstrate and somehow fix her freebooting mood — though she saw the irrationality of it on a day that had begun with a clear insight that at least she would try to equal his thinness even if she could never hope to achieve the frugality of his expectations — just as she was leaving the last part of the cake , she would think of a better way to write the note . |
| 7 | She was re-reading the last line of the message which had n't sunk in till now . |
| 8 | She was sipping the last of her coffee , however , when it suddenly came to her just how much Ven had been in her thoughts since she had awakened , also how very much she wanted to see him again ! |
| 9 | For some reason , she was finding the last few pages difficult to sort out . |
| 10 | It was as she was approaching the last crest before the house came into sight that she suddenly had to stamp on the brakes as a Land Rover came pitching round the hillside . |
| 11 | James Halden returned just as she was finishing the last frill , and she jumped up as soon as she heard his steps on the stair . |
| 12 | This morning at breakfast we were smoking the last two . |
| 13 | It seemed a long way away but before we knew it we were paying the last of the deposits . |
| 14 | They were passing the last of the houses now . |
| 15 | Men , I know , talk of such things with eagerness , with a little contempt ; it is as if they were describing the last meal they had , course by course . |
| 16 | They were saying the last time I heard them saying anything he was sort of going |
| 17 | He was eating the last of the pie with gusto . |
| 18 | It was four days ( during which he was given the last rites ) before his doctors gave him a chance to live through . |
| 19 | She knew he was remembering the last time they had drunk Martinis together and what she had said to him then . |
| 20 | Now he was placing the last , low down on her wrist . |
| 21 | He was having a last vicious swipe at his father and his father 's religion . |