Example sentences of "he [vb past] the last [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | His voice had dropped lower and lower , until he was almost whispering , and he let the last question hang in the silence . |
| 3 | The balloon burst as he scrawled the last letter . |
| 4 | He fixed the last lamp-holder to the roof rack and inspected his wiring . |
| 5 | He shouted the last word ; then his voice dropping again , he said , ‘ The very smell of you nauseates me ; you stink of death . ’ |
| 6 | He shuddered as he pronounced the last word . |
| 7 | Gently , he lifted the last bantam to the top perch . |
| 8 | He accentuated the last word heavily . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He spoke without conviction , as if he believed the last phrase was something he was obliged to say rather than genuinely believed . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Billingsley asked as he threw the last cartridge overboard . |
| 13 | The young man was looking at Wycliffe as though he faced the last judgement . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The trial proved an immense strain , and he spent the last months of his life confined to a wheelchair . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | He pulled the last piece of bandage away , revealing the bald dome of his subject . |
| 18 | He placed the last evil half inch of his yellow-papered cigarette carefully into the corner of his mouth . |
| 19 | Panic leapt up in his breast and he swallowed the last quarter of an inch of his coffee , muddily tepid . |
| 20 | Following this , he took the last piece of pork from his plate , chewed on it , then swallowed it before asking the next question . |
| 21 | However , we know from Yeats 's letters even more than his poems that he thought the last possibility for aristocratic ease in the arts had disappeared when Robert Gregory was shot down over France in 1915 . |
| 22 | When he reached the last machine he went back to the beginning and played them all again . |
| 23 | ‘ But how does a young American lady — ’ and he stressed the last word slightly ‘ — come to be alone and seeking work in London ? ’ |
| 24 | ‘ When I was young and foolish ? ’ he stressed the last word with an ironic twitch of his lips . |
| 25 | As he kept the last Christmas of his life at Saumur , he can hardly have failed to see how many of his barons stayed away , a sure sign that they were preparing to transfer their allegiance to Richard and Philip . |
| 26 | White clinched a quarter-final place when he potted the last red and colours to the pink in the deciding frame . |
| 27 | He remembered the last visit he had had — from Marshal Tolonen — and was determined to keep Kim away from things . |
| 28 | He remembered the last time he had been in this situation . |
| 29 | He remembered the last time he had seen his father — Dermot Corcoran , he corrected himself — alive . |
| 30 | He remembered the last time he had been to see the dentist . |