Example sentences of "i [verb] [pers pn] [prep] last " in BNC.
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| 1 | I found them at last . |
| 2 | Now then , that new vending machine I told you about last time . |
| 3 | I must have bloody done so , because they both produced contracts and five or six witnesses who swore that , although I was completely paralytic , I signed them on last Monday night at the Duck and Forceps . |
| 4 | I remember you from last time , but |
| 5 | That militant Forbes — you know , the one I warned you about last week — has called all the food and beverage staff out on strike ! ’ |
| 6 | My eye followed the light cloud of her smoke , now here , now there , above the plain , according to the devious curves of the stream , but always fainter and farther away , till I lost it at last behind the mitre-shaped hill of the great pagoda ( 6 ) . |
| 7 | Other sentences have a similar type of structure , and tend to end in a similar evocation of vastness and remoteness , as the eye reaches its limit of vision : " under the enormous dome of the sky " ; " the monotonous sweep of the horizon " ; " as if the impassive earth had swallowed her up without an effort , without a tremor " ; " till I lost it at last behind the mitre-shaped hill of the great pagoda " . |
| 8 | I therefore welcome his belated decision to take part in a full debate and the fact that he is now — I quote him from last week — keen to acknowledge that there is always room for constitutional change . |
| 9 | ‘ Now that I have you at last you 'll never be away from me again . ’ |