Example sentences of "be his last [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ironically , Gooch said in July this year that India would be his last trip with England ‘ because I do n't want to miss my daughters growing up ’ . |
| 2 | AS HE EMBARKS upon what may well be his last Test series as England captain , and his zenith surely reached , one wonders why , apart from various ghost-written ‘ autobiographies ’ . |
| 3 | It might be that this season will be his last chance , that he is a manager who can win Cups with short sprints but not the silverware that goes with marathons . |
| 4 | The madness of enjoying the fruits before they were grown ; the madness of believing the dream to be the fact ; the madness of not seizing the best chance he had ever had which would also be his last chance in England . |
| 5 | Fearful that this might well be his last chance to secure his own future , he persisted , ‘ Do n't be afraid to strike out , Esther . |
| 6 | Conjuring tricks could be his last chance . |
| 7 | He knows this will now probably be his last chance . |
| 8 | Meanwhile , the Tory Party is counting on the bitter disputes over Europe being set aside when Chancellor Norman Lamont presents what may be his last Budget tomorrow . |
| 9 | He has indicated that this may be his last year on the tour , and he finishes a five-time Davis Cup winner . |
| 10 | Cyril himself , heading for a personal century , is considering a declaration , unsure if 1992 will be his last year . |
| 11 | It would be his last night of sleep in the room . |
| 12 | ‘ Fella deserves Shochaiku if it 's gon na be his last drink . ’ |
| 13 | Before he reached the small block of a dozen bed-sitter flats , Alan Millet knew this would be his last call . |
| 14 | It 's likely to be his last film made purely on a research budget . |
| 15 | I envisage and this is what I believe to be his last film Not a Hope in Hell early in 1960 . |
| 16 | Time was lost on the first two days and then the Saturday was washed out altogether , so it was Monday before Lloyd was able to complete his first Test hundred at his adopted home , in what many thought would be his last opportunity . |
| 17 | He had accepted the invitation gladly , knowing full well that it would be his last opportunity to speak in public as a European executive of United Motors . |
| 18 | Only 44 , and with 16 years to go before the official NatWest retiring age , this is , he agrees , unlikely to be his last job . |
| 19 | It is a tour de force ; for the sculptor , who died shortly after its erection , it was to be his last monument . |
| 20 | Not to solve what would be his last murder investigation before leaving Lanarkshire CID would , according to Jimmy Hood , the Labour MP for Clydesdale , have been inconceivable for the Carluke-born detective . |
| 21 | David Hookes , in what could prove to be his last match at Sydney after 17 years , registered his highest score on the ground , 87 , for South Australia against NSW . |
| 22 | When he carne back from what was to be his last visit to the city of his youth his high temperature had worsened and he was advised to rest by the club doctor . |
| 23 | He had returned once to Granard — to bury his widowed mother beside her husband in the hillside cemetery — and he knew that that would certainly be his last visit to the place of his birth . |
| 24 | There will be a few moist eyes at Old Trafford if Fergie finds himself in dreamland again tonight , in what will surely be his last appearance in Britain . |
| 25 | There seemed little left in the match except the question of whether Wright would get the 36 runs he needed for 5000 in Tests , in what was rumoured to be his last appearance . |
| 26 | Houphouët-Boigny had previously made it known that , if elected , this would be his last term of office , but gave no indication as to a possible successor . |
| 27 | It is significant that what appears to be his last autograph , written in a shaky hand in a young girl 's album , is the final passage of the Immortality Ode , which teaches us to live by ‘ the human heart ’ . |
| 28 | Hope then made what was to be his last appeal to the House of Commons for a Gothic Foreign Office , as he was to be out of Parliament from May 1859 until 1865 , when the present building was being built . |
| 29 | Mick Jagger does a performance , and a really good one too , but with Jim you got the sense that any night could be his last concert . |
| 30 | A devout Catholic , he has said this will be his last season while he devotes himself to his family . |