Example sentences of "on my last [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On my last afternoon at home , surrounded by grey shirts and socks , I looked from the window and saw Bobby Bowen in his best suit with the extra wide trousers walking quickly down the hill , whistling beautifully as he always did , with lots of grace notes . |
| 2 | I finished up in Rome , home to so many of the works I lectured on , and on my last night there I took a walk down to Bernini 's Trevi fountain in order to throw in the coin that would ensure that somehow I would one day return . |
| 3 | She bribed me with pasta and blackmailed me into writing a synopsis on my last night in Hawaii . |
| 4 | On my last night in London I spoke with Winston Churchill . |
| 5 | This was a vehicle with all mod cons at the rear of the bus , which I had followed many times and checked on its progress flying over the route ; oddly enough , on my last night in Mespot I was to sleep in the Imperial Airways rest fort at Rutbah Wells , I had refuelled there many times and had wondered with awe at the vast ugly route-flying Imperial aircraft — Handley Page HP42s — and even more so at the passengers who took an even greater interest in our tiny single-engined Wapiti aircraft , and furthermore asked endless questions about our aircraft and of our life in Baghdad . |
| 6 | On my last day there I was literally pushed out of a small news agent 's shop by a pair of youths for requesting a box of matches in English rather than in French ; I even tried my one and only French joke on them and said ‘ Quel fromage ! ’ but it got me nowhere — but out ! |
| 7 | I remember a discussion on my last day . |
| 8 | On my last day at school |
| 9 | On my last day I had a boatman take me round the island . |
| 10 | I enclose a cheque for £34 as payment for the outstanding balance on my last instalment of the Community Charge . |
| 11 | She bought it as a gift on my last trip to the UK . |
| 12 | Lil in any case has a breakfast meeting with those Fox Ghosts I saw snooping around Mephistco on my last trip back . |
| 13 | ‘ On my last legs , ’ Seth wrote later , ‘ I hied down to New Orleans to drink myself quietly to death , and nearly did , but something awoke in me and I wrote a book instead . ’ |
| 14 | It was a nightmare , anyone reading the papers would think I was on my last legs . |
| 15 | And I 'm not on my last legs yet , thank you very much ! |
| 16 | ‘ You realise we did this on my last birthday ? |
| 17 | On my last visit I swam in the Grjótagjá pools — a true delight for someone so young and so unused to mixed nude dipping . |
| 18 | On my last visit to Wood Green , I saw that an attractive house had been built on that part of the garden . |
| 19 | Years later , on my last visit to that pioneering control-room , I could still see the marks on the wall where our preliminary broadcast signals were given . |
| 20 | I met him on my last visit to Glasgow recently : a jolly , likeable man today . |
| 21 | IN recent years I have made several trips to Portugal 's Algarve coast and on my last visit in January this year was presented with a booklet entitled ‘ Cricket in Portugal ’ . |
| 22 | On my last visit to Lewis I found myself repelled by the use of derogatory nicknames , and could n't understand why I was reacting so violently . |
| 23 | From his excited account I was able to tell him that that was the exact area in which I had , on my last visit , planted a hundred daffodil bulbs . |
| 24 | Once you 've crossed the river , cross rough ground to a second river , Larachantivore , where there is ( or was on my last visit , at any rate ) an ancient and rickety bridge . |
| 25 | As I went out , past the shrouded furniture in the front room ( things made ready these twenty years past for the move that never came ) I noticed a Lowry reproduction hanging over the mantelpiece that had n't been there on my last visit . |
| 26 | The source for all this is impeccable , by the way — I spoke to Intel boss Andy Grove , on my last visit to the US . |
| 27 | You will remember ; but here is his story , as he told it to me on my last visit . |
| 28 | On my last visit there , Wagner had just finished his composition Siegfried and was full of the most exuberant sense of his artistic strength . " |
| 29 | I went down to the tap room and ordered a meal though I was hungrier for the dark-eyed slattern I had glimpsed on my last visit with Benjamin . |
| 30 | On my last visit I noticed that an image of James Joyce had been engraved on a tiny glass window on the seat behind me , and other historical figures literally emerged from the woodwork when I looked a little closer around the bar . |