Example sentences of "he [verb] the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | They caught him unprepared , before he could blank out his mind , making him remember the last time he had heard that sort of ringing , last Sunday . |
| 2 | She would stay until the first intermission , then leave him to watch the last complete performance alone . |
| 3 | In 1910 he made the last of his great journeys across China , travelling from Honan in Central China to Russian Turkestan , a distance of 3,750 miles in 174 days . |
| 4 | He made the last of his 51 appearances against Scotland in 1984 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He said it was important that the pace of change was ‘ right ’ but refused to say when he expected the last of the doomed homes to say goodbye to its last resident . |
| 7 | With his compatriot colleagues — the already mentioned Kerle , Jacob Regnart ( c. 1540–1599 ) , Charles Luython ( C. 1557–1620 ) — and other composers in Prague , Jacobus Handl , ‘ Gallus vocatus , Carniolanus ’ ( 1550–91 ) and the remarkable Czech amateur Kryštof Harant z Polžic ( 1564–1621 ) , together with Giaches de Wert ( 1535–96 ) who settled in Italy , he represents the last flowering of the Netherland tradition in church music . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | His voice had dropped lower and lower , until he was almost whispering , and he let the last question hang in the silence . |
| 10 | His chuckle was rich , and his eyes creased in amusement as he narrowed the last little gap between them . |
| 11 | The balloon burst as he scrawled the last letter . |
| 12 | have you had the last cherry bakewell ? , he has the last cherry bakewell |
| 13 | He fixed the last lamp-holder to the roof rack and inspected his wiring . |
| 14 | He finishes the last of the champagne , stands up , smiles kindly at her . |
| 15 | He shouted the last word ; then his voice dropping again , he said , ‘ The very smell of you nauseates me ; you stink of death . ’ |
| 16 | He shouted the last two words . |
| 17 | He shuddered as he pronounced the last word . |
| 18 | He says the last few months have been some of the driest since records began . |
| 19 | Gently , he lifted the last bantam to the top perch . |
| 20 | And he describes the last 14 years of his life dedicated to overcoming the bitterness accumulated since the ‘ rubber barons ’ first reached the region , bringing with them thousands of labourers from Brazil 's impoverished Northeast , who they set to work as Seringueiros in lands wrested from the Indians . |
| 21 | She was roused from this reverie seconds later when he gulped the last of the juice and said , ‘ I know what Faye 's ‘ few minutes ’ mean . |
| 22 | He accentuated the last word heavily . |
| 23 | He began to whistle , and taking his hands of the handlebars he negotiated the last half mile home without touching them again . |
| 24 | Around the same time he composed the last of his Salzburg serenades — a brilliant D major piece using a concertante group of wind instruments rather than the usual violin , and incorporating a posthorn into one of the minuets — hence its nickname , the ‘ Posthorn ’ Serenade . |
| 25 | Flaherty said to be sure this was true , although he misremembered the last time they 'd been called on to supply them , it being all of two years since the Wolfkings had been driven out by the Gruagach . |
| 26 | He spoke without conviction , as if he believed the last phrase was something he was obliged to say rather than genuinely believed . |
| 27 | Half way down he heard a commotion below and quickened his heavy step in time to see , as he turned the last bend in the staircase , a slight figure slip out through the iron gate at the main entrance . |
| 28 | He ripped the last few berries off their bush , swallowed them in one gulp , and surveyed the mess he had made with satisfaction . |
| 29 | Billingsley asked as he threw the last cartridge overboard . |
| 30 | He crunched the last of his sweets and gave a leaflet to a passer-by . |