Example sentences of "of his last [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gentle 's thoughts were of his last exchange with Judith . |
| 2 | Since the failure of his last plan , Mould had been very quiet . |
| 3 | Crueller still is the fact that a loss to 16 fight challenger is likely to rob McKenzie of his last chance to make the big money he richly deserves after 10 years of sterling service . |
| 4 | OPPOSITION is mounting to a controversial rule which has robbed a Middlesbrough student of his last chance to run in the English Schools Cross Country Championships . |
| 5 | Only at the end , when in the grip of his last illness , was he defeated . |
| 6 | THE PEOPLE of Montenegro yesterday welcomed home the remains of Nicholas I , their first and last king , after 70 years ' exile in Italy , in belated fulfilment of his last will and testament . |
| 7 | There had long been resistance to making him a saint due to his open contempt for Christian domestic morality ( he had lived with concubines after the death of his last wife ) . |
| 8 | Her faith in him was severely tested later , especially in 1908 and again in 1913 ; but she drew on deep reservoirs of resilience until the anxieties of his last year as a soldier began to sap her energies as housekeeper , mother , and gardener . |
| 9 | The intensification of the war increased when on 10 June 1940 , Mussolini , making one of his last balcony performances , declared war , so that my newly-projected book on Italy seemed of immediate relevance , though whether I should complete it was another matter . |
| 10 | In one of his last acts as environment secretary , Nicholas Ridley scrapped a similar scheme in Oxfordshire , at Stone Bassett . |
| 11 | One of his last acts was to heave the contents of the wine cellar ( some bottles of whiskey ) into the back of a relative 's car . |
| 12 | One of his last acts , two days before his death from prostate cancer , was to accept formal leadership of a new political party after his own had sacked him . |
| 13 | As an act of conciliation , James II soon afterwards , in one of his last acts as monarch , offered Trelawney his much desired See of Exeter . |
| 14 | Molesworth 's chairmanship of the Select Committee on the Downing Street Public Offices Bill must have been one of his last acts as First Commissioner of Works , as on 21st July , 1855 , Palmerston promoted him to be Secretary of State for the Colonies , and appointed the President of the Board of Health , Sir Benjamin Hall ( 1802–67 ) , in his place . |
| 15 | Immediately before the summer recess , and as one of his last acts before his two and a half months of asylum , Baldwin had devoted two days to receiving an almost unprecedented deputation on the subject . |
| 16 | One of his last acts was to issue new statutes governing the conduct of the chapter , which increased the daily provision for each prebendary . |
| 17 | Uvarov 's little victory was one of his last successes . |
| 18 | If the exiled son were a soldier and died suddenly , as so often happened , a brother officer would write of his last hours to the sorrowing parents ( see chapter seven ) . |
| 19 | In McEnroe 's case , the Garden was the scene of his last triumph of major significance . |
| 20 | She felt as guilty about running away as if she had just robbed a lame beggar of his last groat . |
| 21 | Miano has happy memories of his last trip to Northern Ireland twelve months ago . |
| 22 | Would Reni seek consolation in the arms of his last daughter , or would he lose himself in wine ? |
| 23 | One of his last appearances in Scottish football was playing as a mercenary for Scone Thistle in the Perthshire juvenile league . |
| 24 | The team included the Celtic goalkeeper Johnny Thomson playing one of his last games for Scotland a few months before his tragic death . |
| 25 | RUUD Gullit is gearing up for next week 's European Cup final with Marseille with many Milan fans believing it will one of his last games for the Italian giants . |
| 26 | The ticket clerk , who is a villainous-looking Copt , is apparently adding up the monetary results of his last night 's murders , and dislikes being interrupted . |
| 27 | This was certainly how Keynes saw it in one of his last memoranda , in February 1946 . |
| 28 | Bagnold subsequently worked on processes involving fluids other than air and contributed to understanding of beach formation by waves based upon wave tank experiments ( Bagnold , 1940 ) and also to the analysis of fluvial processes ( Bagnold , 1960 ) and in one of his last papers ( Bagnold , 1979 ) he reviewed fluid flow in general . |
| 29 | ‘ He appears to have come out of his last race at Haydock very well , ’ Gaselee said , ‘ and I am hopeful that he will run another big race next Saturday . |
| 30 | Ari was taken aback by the vehemence of his last remark . |