Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [verb] the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | I helped to win the last one , I shall help to win the next one . |
| 2 | I woke sensing the last one |
| 3 | ‘ I thought I 'd seen the last of this particular fashion accessory . ’ |
| 4 | Crawled until I could see the arrow only because it was pale against the bark , and knew I was already further away than when I 'd taken the last bearing . |
| 5 | It was so bad , I 'd be looking forward to the next meal before I 'd finished the last one , ’ she says . |
| 6 | After I 'd spent the last two days setting it up ? ’ |
| 7 | That is why I had to spend the last half an hour intervening and telephoning both Departments to try to deal with the problem . |
| 8 | I had enjoyed the last two months greatly but the journey , though arduous , had involved no real danger . |
| 9 | I had remembered the last time I had stood in a garden with a man . |
| 10 | I felt that he thought I wanted to run the last leg for the glory . |
| 11 | ( If you tried to swap the last column of a table without doing so you would jumble up your text ) |
| 12 | Had n't she thought she 'd seen the last of Rourke Deveraugh ? |
| 13 | She really had thought she 'd heard the last of that voice . |
| 14 | Sophie nodded as she finished examining the last one . |
| 15 | Well , to hell with you , sweetheart , she railed , and , her pride once more up in arms , a certainty in her head that she had seen the last of Ven for that night , she rocketed from her bed , took a shower , and got dressed . |
| 16 | The recent spell of warm weather was holding and Julie Murchison was feeling good in spite of the fact that she had spent the last hour in her Mother 's sick room . |
| 17 | A woman told how she had spent the last fifteen years of her life ‘ allowing my husband to make choices for me ’ . |
| 18 | She had spent the last ten days in bed , suffering from shock , the after-reaction fierce , frightening . |
| 19 | Only when she was halfway there did she remember that this , after all , was n't Chipchester , where she had spent the last six months at college — nor even Athens , where at least the drivers and pedestrians expected to engage in constant warfare — and that perhaps she should have checked the traffic before crossing … |
| 20 | She had spent the last six months learning to help many such at St Sylvester 's . |
| 21 | Co-director Deborah Coles recounted how she had spent the last 3 days attending the inquest on a man known to be at risk , who committed suicide in prison . |
| 22 | By the time she had rolled the last lump of dog food into the canal , the sun was beginning to rise in the east . |
| 23 | After she had scattered the last few blooms , she went and gave the girl a five pound note , Ulster Bank pounds , not punts . |
| 24 | I thought we 'd seen the last of him , after what he did to Jennifer . ’ |
| 25 | We thought we 'd had the last laugh when we got to the play-off finals against Charlton but he was an even bigger pain in the arse after that . |
| 26 | I kept making the point on Saturday here at Lane Martin , that I did n't think that erm we 'd had the last of the goals as they kept er popping in at both ends , and I 'm sure though we 've had three with a little over half an hour played here , we have n't seen the last of the goals here either . |
| 27 | We called ploughing the last furrow in a stetch taking up the brew . |
| 28 | We had reached the last door . |
| 29 | We had passed the last of the houses and were driving in grey early-morning light through a landscape of scorched earth , blackened trees . |
| 30 | Police had hoped they 'd seen the last of the joyriding and the crowds who gather to see the stolen cars in action . |