Example sentences of "spent the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's impossible to say which city Bashlachev belonged to because he was raised in the northern town of Cherepovets , studied at Sverdlovsk University and spent the last few years of his life wandering between Moscow , Leningrad and Siberia . |
| 2 | The trial proved an immense strain , and he spent the last months of his life confined to a wheelchair . |
| 3 | Albert Einstein spent the last 50 years of his life unsuccessfully trying to unify the theories of electromagnetism and gravity . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The 5th-Century mystic spent the last 45 years of his life atop a stone pillar . |
| 6 | A COWBOY who spent the last six years of his life in a wheelchair got his dying wish , to be buried standing up with his boots on . |
| 7 | He spent the last five years of his RAF career at Brize Norton , five miles from his Witney home . |
| 8 | Peter senior spent the last 16 months in the prison hospital . |
| 9 | I mean , has Jim Bob really spent the last six months watching cable TV ? |
| 10 | The most enthusiastic advocate of ‘ Gregorian ’ liberty during these years was Hugh , bishop of Die and later archbishop of Lyons , whom Anselm first met on his way to Rome in 1097 , and with whom he spent the last eighteen months of his exile from May 1099 to August 1100 . |
| 11 | More liberal constituencies in the party , some of them with close links to Hillary Rodham Clinton , the president 's wife , then spent the last half of 1992 making sure that their claims on the presidency were not forgotten . |
| 12 | After counting the remaining rupees carefully , I spent the last free day in the company of a couple of young Seychellois who were going to an offshore reef to lift their fish-traps . |
| 13 | Computone , which spent the last year re-organising , has , in a further ‘ belt tightening ’ effort , recently cut 20% of its 138 strong workforce . |
| 14 | Robert himself , afflicted by leprosy , spent the last two years of his life in Cardross castle beside the Clyde , dying before he could learn that the Pope had lifted his excommunication and acknowledged him and his successors as rulers of Scotland . |
| 15 | As Denton has shown , Winchelsey had used Clericis Laicos tactically to keep the king at bay while evading the full implications of that bull — that the pope alone could give consent ; Edward spent the last years of his reign dexterously reversing this and nullifying the commitments which appeared to have been extracted from him by the Confirmation of the Charters in 1297 . |
| 16 | " After about and hour-and-a-half or so of questions etc " Macmillan spent the last hour summing up " the political and military situation ; the problems confronting the Field Marshal and HMG and the equivocal and uncertain attitude of the Americans " . |
| 17 | He retired from the imperial throne in AD 305 and spent the last nine years of his life in cultivating the soil of his native Dalmatia , constructing the city which still forms the heart of modern Split and , according to Gibbon , enjoying the ‘ most exquisite trout ’ which were bred in ‘ the little stream of the Hyader ’ ( now the Jadro ) . |
| 18 | He spent the last five months of his life writing his fourth novel , La Soiree a Somosierra , and reflecting on the outcome of his departure from the party , only vaguely aware of the incipient communist campaign to blacken his name . |
| 19 | He had his own rooms and spent the last few years of his life reading and receiving a stream of aristocratic visitors , including the princess of Wales , venturing forth occasionally for trips to the theatre organized through the actress Madge Kendal [ q.v . ] . |
| 20 | He spent the last two years of the war in France as a major with Australian Field Ambulance units . |
| 21 | Of these the most conservative was Porta , who as late as 1578 could publish an old-fashioned cantus firmus Mass on the Josquin subject ‘ La sol fa re mi ’ and who corresponded with Carlo Borromeo ; on the other hand , his Magnificat for the Franciscan Chapter at Bologna was in 24 parts and we know that he frequently employed trombones , cornetts , violins , and portative organs as well as the large ones at San Antonio , Padua , where he spent the last six years of his life . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The mental hospital where my great-uncle Fred spent the last 30 years of his life was one of a chain built around the fringes of London in the second half of the nineteenth century . |
| 24 | A DETECTIVE spent the last moments of his life watching the Grand National in a pub with friends . |
| 25 | However , the most notable feature of these accounts is not so much their dating , as the apparent belief in St Augustine 's , where Goscelin spent the last years of his life , that Cnut visited them both on the way to and from Rome . |
| 26 | Nicholas Ridley retired from the house of commons at the last election after his outspoken remarks over Europe , he took a peerage and spent the last few months of his life in the House of Lords . |
| 27 | He spent the last five years with Austin Knight in Newcastle , the last six months as agency director . |
| 28 | The Northern Echo published details of how she spent the last hours of her life on a shopping trip with her friend , Veronica Alderson , from Kirk Merrington . |