Example sentences of "[coord] he [verb] [art] last " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But how does a young American lady — ’ and he stressed the last word slightly ‘ — come to be alone and seeking work in London ? ’ |
| 2 | The trial proved an immense strain , and he spent the last months of his life confined to a wheelchair . |
| 3 | His new wife was a Parisian and he spent the last eight years of his life in Paris , where he continued to practise until he died in 1843 at the age of eighty-eight . |
| 4 | Well you took all this sort of things in your stride but the next day we heard about these houses being knocked down , you see , and I think that 's the nearest I 've been to be killed but one day , one Saturday and that was in a daylight raid , one Saturday afternoon because , you see , I was off every afternoon but I worked till ten every night , you see , and er so erm but of course Hugh worked during the day and he was off in the evening , that 's why he used to come down to see , to see us and er he used to come in er you see and leave his lodgings and , oh be about nine o'clock and he spent the last day up there perhaps with his friends , have a chat , and er , you see , and but er and I was walking along it was called and suddenly a plane came over and I thought oh I expect it 's one of ours . |
| 5 | And he describes the last 14 years of his life dedicated to overcoming the bitterness accumulated since the ‘ rubber barons ’ first reached the region , bringing with them thousands of labourers from Brazil 's impoverished Northeast , who they set to work as Seringueiros in lands wrested from the Indians . |
| 6 | But , in his favour , Haig strongly advocated Foch 's appointment as generalissimo in 1918 , and he handled the last British actions of the war with resolution and thoroughness . |
| 7 | Panic leapt up in his breast and he swallowed the last quarter of an inch of his coffee , muddily tepid . |
| 8 | His voice had dropped lower and lower , until he was almost whispering , and he let the last question hang in the silence . |
| 9 | Graham 's back arched agonizingly and he used every last ounce of inner strength to keep himself from wrenching his hand off the pad . |
| 10 | But he had the last laugh — the Blades dumped Manchester United 2–1 on the opening day ! |
| 11 | Simon Wigg says that everybody was laughing at him because the bike looked so different but he had the last laugh … won the title and that 's what it 's all about … |
| 12 | Culley thought that too , but he made a last try . |