Example sentences of "as [pers pn] [vb past] the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | We both started to laugh as I had the last few words on the subject . |
| 2 | We could feel the tension among the large audience of Spaniards and British and Americans , a tension that relaxed into applause as I blew the last candle out and the room lamps came on . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm just trying to get some perspective here , ’ he said as I twisted the last coldness from my beer bottle . |
| 4 | As the buzz or the haze receded , and as I chewed the last tasteless fragment of sandwiched thermoplastic , I steadied myself by counting the melamine tables and counting the chairs and counting the customers and counting the sticky sauce bottles and the dome-shaped salt cellars and the cups , the plates , the cutlery , the ashtrays , anything in sight . |
| 5 | This fantasy was so vivid to her that she would even rehearse this line out loud , looking at herself in her mirror as she smoked the last cigarette of the night , after she 'd taken her face off , after all the noise was over and we 'd all gone home . |
| 6 | As she stamped the last one she glanced at her watch . |
| 7 | As she reached the last step Travis appeared through a door to her left . |
| 8 | Bernice shivered inside her coat as she ran the last few feet to the stones . |
| 9 | Theodora 's eye reached the top of the spire as she drank the last of the sherry . |
| 10 | She touched Artemis lightly on the shoulder as she said the last word , and throwing away her lipstick-stained cigarette butt , fell into step beside them . |
| 11 | She could have kicked herself as she added the last bit . |
| 12 | As she finished the last morsel of a perfectly running Brie , she said , sighing : |
| 13 | But she was thinking hard all the time , and as she chased the last milky drops round her saucer she went on dreamily : ‘ I wonder what will happen to us all . |
| 14 | She lay back , her body rigid , as she reviewed the last few catastrophic days of her life . |
| 15 | His voice was deep and soft with memories , so that she felt her heart dip , then beat crazily as she remembered the last time she 'd been involved in his research , when he 'd kissed her that morning . |
| 16 | It was as she put the last plate on the table that the door opened and Carrie Smith entered the kitchen . |
| 17 | Julie pointed out with devastating logic as she corrected the last of the school-books piled up on the large oak refectory table in front of her . |
| 18 | First impressions were favourable , as we rounded the last of a succession of hairpin bends . |
| 19 | As property prices in London were moving upwards , Eva 's shrewd plan was to decorate the flat as we had the last house , sell at a profit , and move on . |
| 20 | ‘ When I saw Honey End and Greek Scholar coming at me I did n't think they could catch up but I gave Foinavon one more slap just in case as we jumped the last . |
| 21 | A weird island , they found as they walked the last half mile — after leaving the Mercedes in a car park with Dillon seated in the rear . |
| 22 | Wayne was driving now as they left the last of the houses behind , following the lake shore for a while until the wooded hillside of the Step rose up and screened it from their sight . |
| 23 | As they rounded the last corner the leaders had the main field breathing down their necks . |
| 24 | As they entered the last fortnight of the share sale there was still a shade under half the £6.5 million to be raised . |
| 25 | But who would think of refusing Lucy 's invitations , providing as they did the last vestige of a social occasion within the enclave ? |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Now , I did eventually get my father to tell me this ; and , according to him , it was just as he choked the last struggling life out of the dog that he heard another scream , this time from above , and inside the house , and that was the boy they called Paul being born . |
| 28 | He saw the spot of bright buttercup colour as he rounded the last curve before the crossroads . |
| 29 | He was looking , without seeming to look , at Andropulos as he said the last words and felt almost certain that he saw a flicker of expression cross his face . |
| 30 | He looked briefly at his son as he said the last few words , conscious that the boy was watching everything . |