Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] [pron] last [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Selected for Surrey during his last year at Repton School in 1904 , he went on to tour South Africa with MCC in 1905–06 and Australia in 1907–08 . |
| 2 | By then he was forty-two years old , he was tired of the strains of FI racing , his kids were grown up and beginning to race themselves , his business interests ( and , by now , his reputation ) were all in the USA and , as he said phlegmatically at Las Vegas after his last race in FI , ‘ I just do n't see any reason to continue any more . |
| 3 | Then Nottingham learned that Rugby had indeed beaten Harlequins so now the Beeston club have to draw or win at Orrell in their last match on April 25 and Rugby have to lose at Leicester . |
| 4 | ‘ Some of the others missed shore time in Tenerife on their last trip , so it seems only fair they should go this time . |
| 5 | EUROPE 'S X-ray astronomy satellite Exosat will almost certainly be launched on an American Delta rocket because of delays to the European launcher Ariane after its last failure . |
| 6 | Spain under her last Habsburg kings , it was pointed out , had controlled far more territory than any other European country and had none the less been a victim-State on the point of internal collapse . |
| 7 | McAllister , of course , then missed a penalty kick for Scotland in their last Group One match , against Malta . |
| 8 | I was interested to read the prize winning letter from Catherine Haslam in your last edition . |
| 9 | For a long time I was afraid that he had survived the raids of the Khabiris on our last outposts in the north ; but an infantry captain who had known him managed to make his way back to the Southern Capital and contacted my steward . |
| 10 | Lil in any case has a breakfast meeting with those Fox Ghosts I saw snooping around Mephistco on my last trip back . |
| 11 | Gerald Campbell , Consul in Addis Ababa during our last years there , had two children , a little younger than me , but they were girls and had no part in our lives . |
| 12 | Aldershot 's under-14 team are at home to Salisbury for their last Mayes League game of the season on Saturday ( k.o. 10.30 a.m. at Cove School ) . |
| 13 | Crueller still is the fact that a loss to 16 fight challenger is likely to rob McKenzie of his last chance to make the big money he richly deserves after 10 years of sterling service . |
| 14 | Bassett said : ‘ Gayle got a kick on the knee at Coventry in our last match and he 's not done much work all week . ’ |
| 15 | The three judges each scored it 100–86 for Panamanian Duran who was stopped in the sixth round by Pat Lawler in his last fight in March , 1991 . |
| 16 | The sea crashing on to the rocks by the Giant 's Causeway is the only similarity for Steve Parcell with his last parish , Bournemouth . |
| 17 | Ormskirk got home against New Brighton with their last pair at the wicket . |
| 18 | It was this opera — Die Zauberflöte ( The Magic Flute ) — which occupied Mozart throughout his last summer in Vienna . |
| 19 | Others , including the DHSS in their last report on the subject favour a gradual period of change with a move to small home-like settings , believing that radical changes could place unfair burdens on the families of mentally handicapped people if they are simply unable to place their children , on leaving school , in any other form of residence . |
| 20 | Earlier in the day , England defeated Denmark 4–1 and , still unbeaten , will play Sweden in their last match of the group this afternoon . |
| 21 | Bruce Davidson had accompanied McLeish from his last posting to C1 , that division of New Scotland Yard concerned exclusively with murder , and they had now worked together for four years in the CID . |
| 22 | Liphook entertained third placed Mytchett in their last game of the season , and what a thriller it turned out to be . |
| 23 | Much criticism had been directed at van der Merwe , who captained South Africa on their last tour of England in 1965 , after the omission of Clive Rice and Jimmy Cook from the team for the World Cup and the Test in West Indies . |
| 24 | Then a one-all draw with Germany in their last match , meant them finishing in second place on goal difference . |
| 25 | Rod Taylor proudly told me , ‘ I had Johnny Mills in my last film . ’ |
| 26 | The six-foot-six-inch England forward returned to America after helping the Mohawks gain a place in the play-offs with a victory at Cardiff in their last league game of the season before also being outstanding in the first game of the play offs when Middlesborugh pulled off the shock of the season by winning at second division league winners Oldham . |
| 27 | There may be a cult in the making — and one could imagine a film by Antonioni , whose script-writer , Mark Peploe , was intrigued by J. Behrens in his last days . |
| 28 | In Durham County B Hebburn ( 148 7+160 ) have to play Shildon in their last game while Spennymoor are closely on their heels on 48+150 and they have to play Consett to decide the championship . |
| 29 | Fly to Delhi for your last night before returning to London . |
| 30 | ‘ The teachers told us it was Victoria and Albert lessons today , ’ said Ella through her last mouthful of cake . |