Example sentences of "and [verb] [pron] last " in BNC.
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| 1 | After retiring from Oxford in 1964 , he settled in Israel and divided his last years between New York , where he was visiting professor at Queens ' College in City University and Stern College , and Jerusalem . |
| 2 | you know , they come and asked us last week if we 'd do it |
| 3 | Bruno then gave his view on the other two big heavyweight clashes coming up : ‘ Bowe is a very good boxer , strong , young and very confident and seeing his last fight I fancy him against Holyfield . |
| 4 | How dispiriting for Father Watson to tell her this , Nenna thought , and how far it must be from his expectations when he received his first two minor orders , and made his last acts of resignation . |
| 5 | The preceding decades had been dominated by the old-style realism of the regionalist novel , which reached its high point in the 1920s with the publication of José Eustasio Rivera 's The Vortex ( 1924 ) , Ricardo Güiraldes 's Don Segundo Sombra ( 1926 ) and Rómulo Gallegos 's Doña Barbara ( 1929 ) and produced its last major work , Ciro Alegría 's Broad and Alien is the World , in 1941 . |
| 6 | Those who could n't read the words made them up , and Tich , who 'd lost his glasses , settled for singing ‘ Widecombe Fair ’ instead , coughing , spluttering and relishing his last night out . |
| 7 | The elder in charge of the herd would ask the boy to trace back in his memory and explain at what time and place he last saw the missing sheep or goat . |
| 8 | His final task was to report to the paymaster 's office and receive his last pay packet and travel voucher before relinquishing the King 's shilling . |
| 9 | So that was how we came to be sitting in the darkened room with Granny 's coffin on the table , waiting for the neighbours to come and show their last respects . |
| 10 | The only clues in the biographical sources which may give some positive result relative to the death date of Fahreddin Acemi arise from the statement in Taskopruzade 's article on him that Molla Ali Tins , visited him on his death-bed and heard his last wishes . |
| 11 | While Hughes Aircraft , for example , was offering $18m in goods and services for the rebuilding effort ( its boss , Michael Armstrong , was an RLA board member ) Hughes 's parent , General Motors , was shedding 2,600 local jobs and closing its last remaining car plant in the area . |
| 12 | we sat and watched it last night . |
| 13 | But , to me and to hundreds of others he was a unique , dashing , elegant , outrageous , witty , beautiful friend — and to share his last weeks , even from a distance , was an inspiration . |
| 14 | In order to help them come to terms with the loss , the grief stricken couple and their close relatives were encouraged to go and see their dead baby and pay their last respects . |
| 15 | ‘ I saw it before , and felt it last night when I kissed you . |
| 16 | Hepzibah said , ‘ Only natural that he should want to come and pay his last respects to his sister . ’ |
| 17 | As Elisabeth , Rosalind Plowright sounded more secure than she has been for some time on British stages and sang her last aria with true Verdian pathos and passion . |
| 18 | On Saturday they meet Cork Harlequins and play their last group match against SPV Illescas from Madrid . |
| 19 | The studio built for him by Josep Luis Sert in 1954–56 and housing his last unfinished canvases can be viewed by appointment . |
| 20 | Lewis lost all his boxing titles during 1923–4 , and had his last contest in 1929 . |
| 21 | I toasted him , and drank my last drink . |
| 22 | There he sat and drank his last cup of tea . |
| 23 | I joined the Associate Membership scheme in the beginning and left it last year because of what I felt was gross overcharging for a pathetic members ' service . |
| 24 | Meanwhile , his wife justifies everything he does , ignores the very obvious sufferings of her daughters , and sacrifices her last chance of a career in nursing in a vain attempt to make her husband love her . |
| 25 | Battering and battering their last sparks out at the limit — |
| 26 | This is IBM 's troubled attempt to develop a complete local network-based application development environment for client-server systems — IBM failed outright with AD/Cycle for MVS , and abandoned it last year . |
| 27 | ADP is IBM 's troubled attempt to develop a complete LAN-based application development environment for client/server systems — IBM failed outright with AD/Cycle for MVS , and abandoned it last year ( UX No 353 ) . |
| 28 | Molly was a believer in homeopathy and underwent her last operation and subsequent treatment in the Royal London Homeopathic Hospital . |
| 29 | Complete these and check your last four answers . |
| 30 | Harris opened his first London gallery in 1928 when only twenty years old , concentrating largely on Spanish Old Masters , and held his last and widely acclaimed exhibition ‘ From Greco to Goya ’ in November 1938 , during the Spanish Civil War , all proceeds going to the Red Cross . |