Example sentences of "he [verb] [verb] the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has mislaid the last thread of that natty rig he had recently and is entirely back in cap , scarf and corduroy . |
| 2 | Tim Godwin now faces bringing up their baby daughter Sophie without the woman he has shared the last 11 years . |
| 3 | It started life as a graduation film and he has spent the last two years finishing it . |
| 4 | He 'd gone the last time , he reminded her , because of Lowell 's hands — well , partly . |
| 5 | He 'd spent the last few days bouncing from resort to resort . |
| 6 | In fact , rather better than he 'd seemed the last time I 'd seen him . |
| 7 | He 'd spoken the last words in Italian , and in Italian as fluent and colloquial as his own she answered , ‘ I 'm sorry about that . |
| 8 | He decided to spend the last hour at the local pub . |
| 9 | He managed to complete the last lap with a flourish in a little under a minute , opening up a 10-metre lead down the back straight . |
| 10 | She had let Paul name the boys ; with rare magnanimity , he had called the last one after her father . |
| 11 | He was frightened that hostile readers of his theological work would be able to say that his religion could be ‘ explained ’ in terms of the Oedipus complex ( or perhaps the Hippolytus complex ) ; and that he was only able to find peace for his heart by coming to terms with a Heavenly Father of his own projection when he had seen the last of his earthly father in Belfast . |
| 12 | Mansell hoped he had seen the last of the Brazilian after the two were involved in a high-speed collision during the final Grand Prix of the season in Australia . |
| 13 | She sat down on her suitcases and howled , feeling that he had swept the last traces of her personality out in the dustpan too . |
| 14 | There is a story that when he had dictated the last sentence of his monumental Summa Theologiae , he laid his head in his hands sadly . |
| 15 | The dream grew faster and faster and more and more desperate , because he knew that he had to reach the last box before the end of the day . |
| 16 | On his return in mid-December all his colleagues had felt encouraged by the Prime Minister 's buoyancy ; he had conducted the last debates with all his old skill and command of the House . |
| 17 | It was Li Yuan 's horse ; the horse he had ridden the last time he had come . |
| 18 | Willie was so exhausted from the day 's labours that he did n't know whether he had dreamt the last remark or not . |
| 19 | He had performed the last rites earlier , when Patrick was at least half aware , and perhaps even knew what was happening and assented to it . |
| 20 | When , at last , some nasty little spots began to appear , and he had spent the last night of the year sitting up in bed and holding his pyjama jacket away from his afflictions , Joan put her foot down . |
| 21 | Hans and he had spent the last winter in Nice and it was the only place he wanted to avoid ; the memories were still too painful . |
| 22 | He had spent the last twenty years attending the Party conference , four days of gin and oratory . |
| 23 | He did not take it too seriously , but nonetheless he wheeled his pony and made off at speed , back towards the fringes of Clocaenog , where he had passed the last of the prince 's watch . |
| 24 | He had won the last contest on points , thank God , but he knew that a series of ‘ X ’ films , and the suggestive posters that were essential to their promotion , would give Father Whatsisname just the chance he wanted to point the accusing finger . |
| 25 | He had added the last three words with the same morose carelessness with which he had decried the car dealers ' convention , but he offered no elucidation as to what the words meant . |
| 26 | Mr. Duggan said that he had enjoyed the last four years . |
| 27 | cos he 's done the last bit , |
| 28 | Those misses obviously eroded Barnes ' confidence , and he tended to play the last half hour of the game with the weight of the world on his shoulders . |