Example sentences of "he [verb] [art] last [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They caught him unprepared , before he could blank out his mind , making him remember the last time he had heard that sort of ringing , last Sunday . |
| 2 | Infuriated by what she called the actions of a wicked little sneak , Smallfry had forced him to eat every last crumb of the cake without allowing him to clean the dirt and animal saliva from its surface . |
| 3 | Culley thought that too , but he made a last try . |
| 4 | He made a last effort to persuade the Sunderland Society to adopt the rules of a national union which he had spent some twelve months in preparing . |
| 5 | Just before he went under , he made a last effort . |
| 6 | A shower of jeers greeted him from the queue and , as he passed the last boy , who was just out of sight of Mr Gillis , a foot shot out , caught him on the ankle and down he went , sprawling on the wooden floor . |
| 7 | With his compatriot colleagues — the already mentioned Kerle , Jacob Regnart ( c. 1540–1599 ) , Charles Luython ( C. 1557–1620 ) — and other composers in Prague , Jacobus Handl , ‘ Gallus vocatus , Carniolanus ’ ( 1550–91 ) and the remarkable Czech amateur Kryštof Harant z Polžic ( 1564–1621 ) , together with Giaches de Wert ( 1535–96 ) who settled in Italy , he represents the last flowering of the Netherland tradition in church music . |
| 8 | His voice had dropped lower and lower , until he was almost whispering , and he let the last question hang in the silence . |
| 9 | The balloon burst as he scrawled the last letter . |
| 10 | He caught a last glimpse of a grey Mercedes on the far side of the central barrier railings . |
| 11 | have you had the last cherry bakewell ? , he has the last cherry bakewell |
| 12 | Saw how he grasped every last detail of it and held that knowledge tight in his memory . |
| 13 | Graham 's back arched agonizingly and he used every last ounce of inner strength to keep himself from wrenching his hand off the pad . |
| 14 | He fixed the last lamp-holder to the roof rack and inspected his wiring . |
| 15 | He shouted the last word ; then his voice dropping again , he said , ‘ The very smell of you nauseates me ; you stink of death . ’ |
| 16 | He shuddered as he pronounced the last word . |
| 17 | Gently , he lifted the last bantam to the top perch . |
| 18 | He accentuated the last word heavily . |
| 19 | Flaherty said to be sure this was true , although he misremembered the last time they 'd been called on to supply them , it being all of two years since the Wolfkings had been driven out by the Gruagach . |
| 20 | He spoke without conviction , as if he believed the last phrase was something he was obliged to say rather than genuinely believed . |
| 21 | Half way down he heard a commotion below and quickened his heavy step in time to see , as he turned the last bend in the staircase , a slight figure slip out through the iron gate at the main entrance . |
| 22 | Billingsley asked as he threw the last cartridge overboard . |
| 23 | The young man was looking at Wycliffe as though he faced the last judgement . |
| 24 | But there is a more cheerful day ahead for him next Tuesday when he introduces the last Question of Sport in the present series . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The trial proved an immense strain , and he spent the last months of his life confined to a wheelchair . |
| 27 | JB , who lives with his publican owners , always makes a bee-line for the regulars as soon as he hears the last orders bell . |
| 28 | He only went to church when he took church parade — he was what we then called a Regular — but he shed buckets of tears when he heard the Last Post . |
| 29 | He pulled the last piece of bandage away , revealing the bald dome of his subject . |
| 30 | He placed the last evil half inch of his yellow-papered cigarette carefully into the corner of his mouth . |