Example sentences of "his [noun] [verb] the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a buffet rijstafel of gargantuan proportions-thirty dishes concluded with a chewy sweet much beloved of the malais which resembled nothing so much as toenail pie — the Colonel served Tia Maria which he and his wife thought the last word in cosmopolitan sophistication . |
| 2 | There is never a moment when Dustin gets as worried as Gary Cooper in High Noon , although , like Cooper , he has to cope singlehandedly with a number of killers , and is only saved at the final moment when his wife blasts the last opponent with a shotgun . |
| 3 | Consequently , the last line of his life parroted the last line of his masterpiece : at his funeral a picket of soldiers turned up to fire a volley over the coffin , and thus bid the state 's traditional farewell to one of its most improbable and sardonic chevaliers . |
| 4 | Couples , the US Player of the Year and defending a title which inspired him to glory at Augusta last April , regained his compsure to cover the last seven holes in one under par . |
| 5 | His plate held the last few crumbs of a generous slice of pound cake . |
| 6 | MacLane's– driver swerved out of his way to get the last crawling quintuplet . |