Example sentences of "in [pron] last [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In my last comments I mentioned how everyone can influence our performance in the Division . |
| 2 | I have been a lifelong Labour supporter , but I have to say that under the present Government I was able to save in my last years at work without seeing my savings disappear in inflation . |
| 3 | Two separate but converging stories are recounted in alternating chapters : the story of the White Russian Preobrajensky regiment under the command of Prince Ypsilanti , which for two years , cut off from contact with the outside world , marches through Siberia trying to reach the Tsar , and that of Tsar Nicholas II himself and his family in their last months , especially during their confinement at Ekaterinburg . |
| 4 | The crowds have not spat out his name with quite the virulence they showed for Mr Milos Jakes and Mr Miroslav Stepan , the Prague party supremo , in their last days , but there has always been an underlying , almost universal contempt . |
| 5 | The lives of both the Duke of Windsor and his spouse were rendered miserable in their last years by her quest , and his support for that quest , to be entitled to the description of ‘ Her Royal Highness ’ . |
| 6 | The use of these coaches was mainly on secondary services , then branch and local , and in a lot of cases in their last years as workmen 's , although 1622 's record makes no comment about this . |
| 7 | Greg tried to picture Hilda in her last moments : somehow he failed . |
| 8 | A big-built Scottish woman , who has been playing pool in the other section of the pub , crosses over to the east side of the bar and puts in her last orders . |
| 9 | In her last days Edith Cresson tried to rally ‘ progressive forces ’ to the government 's cause . |
| 10 | Her husband , Norman , who works in the flatshop at Royal Tuscan , said : ‘ Dottie had been so much comforted by one of these special beds in her last weeks . |
| 11 | If inviting an elderly parent to come to live with you in your own home seems to be the best way of helping her in her last years , the first overtures you make to her on this subject need to be very tactful , bearing all the hallmarks of a really welcoming invitation . |
| 12 | Expectation about becoming queen helped give Sophia a powerful interest in her last years , but she was denied her chance , dying 8 June 1714 after hurrying to shelter from sudden rain during a walk in the palace gardens at Herrenhausen . |
| 13 | With an ill-fated exuberance which only a government in its last stages could achieve , Lloyd George succeeded in assembling five nominations for peerages , four of which were alleged to be discreditable . |
| 14 | And another not strong in its last years in the 1970's , ( it finished in 1981 ) , this section was in its day extremely successful and important to the well-being of the senior club . |
| 15 | In 1879 Crookes sold the Quarterly Journal ; it lived on until 1885 , becoming in its last years a monthly-but it had never been a leading journal , and general scientific reviewing never caught on . |
| 16 | In its last years Aurae Phiala surely did mount a watch every night . |
| 17 | Your Committee has purchased an ex G.W.R. coach which some people believe to have run on the BCR in its last years before it went out of use . |
| 18 | Repayment in full of Romania 's foreign debt , which had peaked in the early 1980s at more than US$11,000 million , had been a priority of the Ceausescu regime in its last years and had been accomplished by April 1989 [ see p. 36622 ] . |
| 19 | The baroque curlicue I have added to this criterion lies in its last words . |
| 20 | Whether or not he could hear much of what she said , she did not know , but her heart was saddened that he should be here alone in his last hours . |
| 21 | Ceauşescu was not after all Pol Pot , though in his last hours on earth perhaps he wished that he had been . |
| 22 | When Monmouth was executed , Ken was sent for to attend him in his last hours . |
| 23 | In his last memoirs , written in his second exile , he wrote that before 1953 , " I had been no more than a hereditary sovereign , but now I had truly been elected by the people . |
| 24 | In his last memoirs , completed just before he died in exile , the Shah described King Hassan II as " a sovereign with a rate intellectual elegance … a perfect incarnation of two cultures , the Koramic and the European . |
| 25 | I did not want to worry him in his last moments , so I did not tell him that Linton was also dying . |
| 26 | He did not know that in his last months he had developed a fatal heart condition . |
| 27 | Before kiln operator Steve Kelly died at 55 , he asked for help to be given to the team of Macmillan nurses who cared for him in his last months . |
| 28 | As the crisis deepened , Bridges was in his last weeks as Permanent Secretary to the Treasury . |
| 29 | Housman then kept his version by him for the rest of his life , not collecting it in A Shropshire Lad , nor in his Last Poems ( 1922 ) . |
| 30 | In his last years at Repton he was happier . |