Example sentences of "[noun prp] for the last [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In each of the last four games there 's been speculation that Lou Macari was taking charge of Stoke for the last time . |
| 2 | Therefore George prepared Lennie for heaven by describing their dream to Lennie for the last time . |
| 3 | Quality DJs from all over the country have been coming to Middlesbrough for the last couple of years , including London DJs who are now returning through the Flying organisation . |
| 4 | After a series of celebrations , it will leave Middlesbrough for the last time next Tuesday and head for Portsmouth to be de-commissioned . |
| 5 | A few days later Keith Meerza sees Christopher for the last time . |
| 6 | Ten years now he had lived in Vienna , fourteen since he had quit Russia for the last time , twenty-two since the day he had realized his boyhood ambition to become an officer in the St. Petersburg Grenadiers . |
| 7 | Later , after she had visited Joy for the last time and he had filled her arms with fruit , as he had on every visit , she made her way to the cemetery . |
| 8 | His team just escaped relegation from Division One but after a disastrous run at the start of the following season , he left Maine Road for the last time . |
| 9 | That same night she had gone to Yeoman 's Lane for the last time , accepting without pain that she had thought their love was untouchable , yet now it was as if it had never been . |
| 10 | ‘ Graham took second place at Watkins Glen before we went to South Africa for the last race . |
| 11 | The children will visit Edenside later this month for two ‘ familiarisation ’ days in the classrooms at Kelso before returning to Heiton for the last day of term . |
| 12 | Doubly fortunate is the journalist who can within 24 hours leave Beirut and look upon what is left of the world Damiani lost on that April day when the Argentina sailed out of Jaffa harbour for Beirut , carrying his family from Palestine for the last time . |
| 13 | Claire Clairmont saw Lord Byron for the last time in November 1821 , when her carriage was edged off the road outside Empoli by his magnificent coach and four with its wagon train and travelling menagerie . |
| 14 | Heathcliff visits Catherine for the last time |
| 15 | John , to get to the point , we 've had a bus in Portsmouth plastered with G M B slo slogans , a talking point of Portsmouth for the last fortnight . |
| 16 | For another , the ‘ war party ’ may already have taken over within the Vietminh : at least when Sainteny , attempting his last act of mediation , saw Ho for the last time before the war started , he complained about the moderate elements who had been eliminated from the government to the benefit of the notorious Francophobes ; and as the war was on the point of beginning , and as attacks on French soldiers and civilians had not ceased , nor had French retaliation , Sainteny 's exasperation was to be seen in his demand that culprits should be punished within 24 hours . |
| 17 | When the immediate formalities were over , he left Algeria for the last time , and flew back to Paris , where he shut himself away in the house at St-Cloud , seeing no one . |
| 18 | Who was that , they did erm , a trip to Holland for the last year , did n't they ? |
| 19 | Resident in Holland for the last decade , Julyen Hamilton is a dancer and teacher who 's studied and developed improvisation and set dance derives much of its inspiration from Jazz . |
| 20 | This passes through a mile-long avenue of noble Scots pines ( denuded by a recent fire ) soon after leaving the village , crosses a bare upland with views of the mountains of Coulin Forest , and is joined by a road from Applecross for the last stage of the journey to Lochcarron ; our itinerary will join it at the junction after a tour of the Applecross peninsula which follows below . |
| 21 | On the day Khomeini flew in to Mehrabad Airport , she and Nader Nadirpur flew out of Teheran for the last time . |
| 22 | The assembled company was let loose on Edinburgh for the last time . |
| 23 | Data assembled by Chisholm ( 1983 ) for local authorities in England and Wales for the last inter-censal decade illustrates this point conclusively ( see Table 6. 1 ) . |
| 24 | They returned in April , and in June visited Leeds for the last time . |
| 25 | I suggested a little time ago that the surface indications offered both by Joyce 's life and by his writing up to including The Portrait — he does leave Ireland to live with his Nora in Triest , in Switzerland , in France , in Switzerland again , until his death in nineteen forty one , visiting Dublin for the last time in nineteen hundred and twelve — he does give us in Dubliners and The Portrait a sharp sense of the traps he feels he must escape from , the church tentacular , pervasive , the seedy provincialism , the narrowness , the philistine complacency . |