Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] the last [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | They secured eight but also lost three wickets including two run outs , one of them off the last ball . |
2 | Tony finds several packets of banana custard that is hot and sweet ; it tastes bloody awful and neither Tony nor I like it , none the less he fights me for the last helping . |
3 | He 's been hiding me for the last couple of days . ’ |
4 | Bessie kissed me for the last time as I held tightly to her . |
5 | As well as coaching many of Britain 's leading international crews , Spracklen is a key member of the Oxford University team , and he will be returning from Canada in March to look after them for the last fortnight before the Boat Race . |
6 | But I 've not been taking them for the last week . |
7 | He would meet me off the last train … . |
8 | What has frankly surprised me about the last decade is the way in which social scientists who make no claim to a Christian profession have been talking openly about the relevance of religious values to our current economic problems in the Western world . |
9 | We have studied the sediment from the bottom of Loch Ness and Loch Morar to discover whether the sea entered either of them after the last ice age . |
10 | The average Council Tax payer , the council tax ca n't be more than , around four percent erm which reminds me of the last miracle budget we had , ninety eighty nine I think it was , again a Labour budget which I think was three point nine per cent increase then and the lowest rate of increase for twenty years erm and the highest level of growth erm . |
11 | Towards the end of ‘ Stately As a Galleon ’ I get cramp in both feet and they curl up under me like the last Empress 's fingernails and stay cramped through waltzing finale , curtain calls and notes from director , friends and husband . |
12 | ‘ I 'm telling you for the last time , Harvey . |
13 | ‘ I 'm telling you for the last time , Liz , get up and let's go home . |
14 | The sooner I 've seen your grandmother , the sooner I can say goodbye to you for the last time . |
15 | It 's probably just as well I have n't been near you for the last week . |
16 | So the paper you 've got in front of you from the last meeting then . |
17 | It 's been so dreary for you in the last couple of weeks . |
18 | And after all the running around I 've done for you in the last couple of days . |
19 | Largely instrumental , it 's like warm soapy water , soothing and enveloping you in the last bath of the day . |
20 | A catapult lives with you until the last moment ; it stays tensed in your hands , breathing with you , moving with you , ready to leap , ready to sing and jerk , and leaving you in that dramatic pose , arms and hands outstretched while you wait for the dark curve of the ball in its flight to find its target , that delicious thud . |
21 | Erm just to refer you to the last sentence , paragraph four three , er to assure members of the Committee that those er representation whether the erm application . |
22 | On the day they want to , they will massacre you to the last man , and it is your duty to fall . |
23 | • If you make a move that takes you beyond the last circle on the grid , you must count back to complete that move before continuing forward with the next move . |
24 | They ca n't gazump you at the last minute cos it makes |
25 | Again this was reported to you at the last meeting of this Committee . |
26 | Too close and you get swept over the edge except that they usually have some sort of wire-mesh barrier to stop you at the last moment . |
27 | ‘ I represent about 12 players at Tottenham Hotspur , and they 've all told me in the last couple of days that they certainly will put in for transfers and leave Tottenham Hotspur . ’ |
28 | You still owe me from the last time . |
29 | I 've done lots of work for them in the last couple |
30 | We betrayed the Arabs over the Balfa declaration , we betrayed them after they cleared Africa and the Middle East under Lawrence , we betrayed them in the last war when they backed our rear and allowed the ninth army , and I was there , to join the eighth army and get out , and directly the last war was over , we betrayed them again — there 's a complete betrayal of the Arabs in the Middle East . |