Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [prep] the last " in BNC.
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1 | The flight was successfully undertaken to the area of Kerkenah Island , where two 22X Squadron Sunderlands met the Hurricanes and led them on the last leg to the island . |
2 | And that got me into the last three so I had to do it all again at the Barbican which I think was to see if I could fill that theatre with enough presence and vocal range . |
3 | there for three pairs which was just as well I stopped you on the last one . |
4 | If he races on Saturday New Level will line up against the much fancied Ringa Hustle and the dog which beat him in the last round , Apres Soleil , which is on offer at 80–1 . |
5 | He found it on the last day of 1869 under nearly twenty feet of sand . |
6 | She was about to shake her head , but changed it at the last moment to a nod . |
7 | During the campaign itself Healey was noticed by only about 12 per cent on average but that concealed some sharp variations : 28 per cent noticed him in the last two days of the campaign , immediately after a spectacular on-screen row with TV-am presenter Ann Diamond . |
8 | But Faldo has reserved his most barbed comments for Alliss and the press , even though the publicity afforded him over the last 16 years has brought a £2 million home and bulging bank account worth more than £10m . |
9 | Mota , from Portugal , suffered yet again with a mysterious stomach complaint , which affected her during the last world championships . |
10 | ‘ They insisted that they held the meeting at a place of their choosing and only told us at the last minute . |
11 | And the big , one of the big things that affected us in the last few years was er Dallas . |
12 | Max joined me for the last nine of my eighteen-months ' stint in Sun City . |
13 | Thomasino Boyd , who joined us for the last couple of years , and before that ( in Scots accent ) Doogie Rae . |
14 | In my maths in school we just finished them on the last day . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | Bessie kissed me for the last time as I held tightly to her . |
17 | The man heard or sensed him at the last moment and turned with his hands coming up to a fighting stance but Maxim feinted through them and hit him low in the stomach . |
18 | I kissed her for the last time as she lay in her hospital bed : the bedclothes were crisp and undisturbed , and she looked very clean , just as she would have wanted to ; and very small , because she was so old , and having started life none too big had ended up , at the age of ninety-one , not much bigger than a child . |
19 | Come and clean my windows and I owed him from the last time . |
20 | Rain watched her for the last few yards , noting how the morning 's cheerfulness had been replaced by anxiety . |
21 | He led her to the last desk in the line , on which she could see a sheaf of pink sheets of paper . |
22 | It had been uppermost in her mind to ask about Marc , but her courage failed her at the last . |
23 | You will remember that we met him in the last commercial . |
24 | Harry Carpenter came up to interview him and asked him about the last putt . |
25 | You saw him for the last time in 1959 . |
26 | Well I saw it in the last time it was in here on Central and it was n't , it did n't come on ! |
27 | This surely is the basic English policy of helping and solidarity , which took us through the last war and into the first Labour Government and the welfare state . |
28 | The South Koreans are rated because they made it to the last World Cup finals , but personally I will always think of the North Koreans in ‘ 66 . |
29 | Of the leading English contenders , Peter Marshall , Chris Walker and Del Harris made it to the last 16 . |
30 | In competition with 800 other boys , he made it to the last five , but nerves got the better of him during a final audition at the Criterion Theatre , in London 's West End . |