Example sentences of "his last visit " in BNC.

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1 After his last visit , he had gone to her and begged to be told the truth .
2 For one brief moment he paused to reflect on the finality of this his last visit which closed a thirty year chapter of his life ; then with a wry smile he descended the impressive stairway .
3 He noticed that hundreds of mushrooms had sprouted since his last visit , some as large as saucers .
4 Yet , in Brooklyn , Beecher acted somewhat differently as Dickens found when he paid his last visit to America in 1868 .
5 When he carne back from what was to be his last visit to the city of his youth his high temperature had worsened and he was advised to rest by the club doctor .
6 He met Agnes , the brazen lady-in-waiting , whom he had met on his last visit to Kinghorn .
7 His last visit was to fulfil an invitation from Marco Corner to take supper with him at his house .
8 On his last visit Djaimin presented Humphries with the remixed ‘ Give You ’ .
9 In his last visit to North Korea , Ceauşescu had been able to see the thirty-storey concrete pyramid in the centre of Pyongyang which had been built under the inspiration of the Dear Leader , Kim Jong Il ( albeit from an original idea by George Orwell ) .
10 Mr Stych , during his last visit home , had already cleared the adjoining garden , and the Frizzells ' leaves were gaily invading his once tidy lawn .
11 On his last visit home , to the university city of Uppsala , he had met with countrymen of his sister 's husband .
12 Mestrovic left a collection of thirty-five paintings and sculptures to the village of Drnis on his last visit to his homeland in 1959 .
13 Here Robert Burns stayed on his last visit to Edinburgh in 1791 .
14 The memory of his last visit would not leave her ; there was a jagged edge to it — for had she not tried to force him against his will and had he not been aware of that and too kind to give her the direct reaction she deserved for her over-boldness ?
15 Felix 's wife started talking about poetry , which she wrote , while Felix shouted about his last visit to Castro .
16 He had returned once to Granard — to bury his widowed mother beside her husband in the hillside cemetery — and he knew that that would certainly be his last visit to the place of his birth .
17 But in the evening , on what was to prove his last visit , the prisoner was so long and so quiet that eventually the carabiniere who had remained to guard him banged on the door .
18 The room had been tidied since his last visit .
19 Of course , the Prince himself has not yet been spoken to , but his secretary , Chang Shih-sen advises me that the copies he was given on his last visit are gone . ’
20 Even on his last visit , two years ago , the Ministry Inspector declared that it would soon be more of a hazard to health than a promoter of it . ’
21 The local EHO was satisfied with our standards during his last visit and our maintenance manager is our health and officer so he also keeps an eye on things . ’
22 He thus returned to the Soviet capital under very different circumstances from his last visit 22 years earlier , when he had been brought to Moscow and forced to give his approval to the invasion .
23 Zhivkov made his last visit to the Soviet Union on June 23 , 1989 , for a working meeting with Gorbachev .
24 Kohl , in eastern Germany for the first time since the December 1990 general election , was jeered and pelted with eggs by several hundred protesters on April 7 in Erfurt ( where enthusiastic crowds of over 100,000 had greeted him on his last visit in February 1990 — see p. 37260 ) .
25 Harvey said how much he had enjoyed his last visit to Riga , and how sorry he was that he would n't be going there , and the man at the other end said that Leningrad was one of the most wonderful towns in the world .
26 Of the drought he had experienced on his last visit , Gould wrote that , ’ It is easier for the imagination to conceive than the pen to depict the horrors of so dreadful a visitation . ’
27 He recalled his last visit to the Company 's Great Cornard factory two years ago when he presented with the Queen 's Award for Export .
28 Uncomfortable memories of what had happened on his last visit to the Mar Girgis flooded into Owen 's mind .
29 On his last visit to Swindon , he was keeping goal for Oxford United , though his happiest memories are of playing for Hereford .
30 On his last visit he had been given coffee .
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