Example sentences of "he [verb] [prep] last " in BNC.
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| 1 | SEVE BALLESTEROS yesterday extended the hand of sympathy to Scotland 's leading golfer , Colin Montgomerie , who has been fined £1,000 for comments he made about last week 's Moroccan Open . |
| 2 | Has he explained about last night ? ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Adam , ’ he whispered at last , ‘ Adam — boy — remember yourself ! |
| 4 | ‘ It 's true , ’ he whispered at last , carefully . |
| 5 | ‘ Ilbrec ! ’ he whispered at last . |
| 6 | Then the Annamite woman began to sob and he relented at last and raised himself from her ; still moaning quietly to herself she scrambled from the cot onto the dirt floor , gathered her scraps of clothing together and fled past the American woman into the rain . |
| 7 | He smelled of last year 's sweat . |
| 8 | ‘ But I think of you as a creative writer , ’ he hazarded at last , amazed at his own effrontery . |
| 9 | ‘ Thoo knows what 's tekken place , Aah reckons , ’ he announced at last . |
| 10 | ‘ Was he taking it to the person it belongs to ? ’ he asked at last , and it was as though all the time he had been trying to frame the question in a special way . |
| 11 | ‘ Should he be so red ? ’ he asked at last . |
| 12 | " You took that money ? " he asked at last . |
| 13 | ‘ What ? ’ he asked at last , in a faint voice . |
| 14 | ‘ Do you mean that ? ’ he asked at last , his voice astonishingly gentle in contrast to that violent physical sensation . |
| 15 | " Are you going on Surete General business ? " he asked at last in a low voice after glancing around again to see if they could be overheard . |
| 16 | " Why are n't you interested in this good news ? " he asked at last in an exasperated voice . |
| 17 | ‘ What does this mean ? ’ he asked at last . |
| 18 | ‘ Where is your horse ? ’ he asked at last . |
| 19 | ‘ Do other men make you react like this ? ’ he asked at last . |
| 20 | ‘ Ready to go ? ’ he asked at last , but she hesitated and ducked her head , and he stepped towards her . |
| 21 | ‘ What does ‘ exploit ’ mean ? ’ he asked at last . |
| 22 | ‘ Are you going to ask me in ? ’ he asked at last . |
| 23 | ‘ How did I manage that ? ’ he asked at last , in a flat , uninflected tone very different from the passionate outburst of a moment earlier . |
| 24 | ‘ She never told me about Shergold but it was common gossip how he felt about her , ’ he admitted at last . |
| 25 | ‘ I did behave like a fool , ’ he admitted at last . |
| 26 | ‘ I heard the bell ring , ’ he ventured at last . |
| 27 | ‘ Candidate ( thinking he has at last come upon a Village Hampden ) : ‘ I can not conceive that the Election can in any way affect your rights here . ’ |
| 28 | A rich and aged relative , who has little use left for his wealth , refuses to give him the money he needs to go to Bali ( he has at last made up his mind ) , but there is an opportunity to steal it from him . |
| 29 | Mr Mitterrand appears so delighted with the ultra-courteous Edouard Balladur , that some Socialists wonder whether he has at last found the prime minister of his dreams . |
| 30 | He has at last achieved his ambition to look both indistinguishable and distinctive . |