Example sentences of "[vb past] her [prep] the last " in BNC.

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1 Mota , from Portugal , suffered yet again with a mysterious stomach complaint , which affected her during the last world championships .
2 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 .
3 Rain watched her for the last few yards , noting how the morning 's cheerfulness had been replaced by anxiety .
4 He led her to the last desk in the line , on which she could see a sheaf of pink sheets of paper .
5 It had been uppermost in her mind to ask about Marc , but her courage failed her at the last .
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