Example sentences of "they [vb past] [art] last " in BNC.
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| 1 | On one of his recent trips they had frightened him so much that he dropped his food and had to watch helplessly while they devoured every last scrap of it . |
| 2 | Their cattle are finished : they made the last batch of bread with oxblood to save what 's left of the water , and they drink that mixed with wine , of which there is n't all that much , either . |
| 3 | Only a mile on , they passed the last of the Home outposts , at Dunglass , in a strong position above another of these precipitous deans ; and soon thereafter Dunbar came in sight , town and castle jutting into the Norse Sea , the eastern gateway to the fertile Lothians , red in blood to match the now prevailing redness in soil and stone . |
| 4 | As they entered the last fortnight of the share sale there was still a shade under half the £6.5 million to be raised . |
| 5 | ‘ They received the last rites and a blessing ? ’ |
| 6 | If England 's trip comes off it would follow 10 years after they played the last official Test against the Springboks at Johannesburg and would be the perfect dress-rehearsal if South Africa 's strong bid to stage the 1995 World Cup succeeds . |
| 7 | A weird island , they found as they walked the last half mile — after leaving the Mercedes in a car park with Dillon seated in the rear . |
| 8 | After their rest , they began the last push to the islands , the most difficult part of their journey yet . |
| 9 | They could n't see the shepherd until they crossed the last rise but they could hear the sheepbells on the clear air . |
| 10 | A frequent fault is to read out passages from textbooks as though they represented the last word on the law . |
| 11 | Those last would not be required again until they reached the last mile of the return trip . |
| 12 | But who would think of refusing Lucy 's invitations , providing as they did the last vestige of a social occasion within the enclave ? |
| 13 | They bought the last chips that were available in Phyl 's Phries and at one o'clock they drifted apart , not satisfied with their night out . |
| 14 | THE little daughters of murdered lecturer Elizabeth Howe wept yesterday as they said a last goodbye to their mother . |
| 15 | They said the last one |
| 16 | And you do n't fall asleep , as you are inclined to do if you try to be an absorbent sponge , soaking in what the authors say as if they had the last word . |
| 17 | Then they rounded the last sweeping curve of the driveway and saw the dark bulk of the big house squatting in the near distance , dimly outlined by the fitful moonlight . |
| 18 | As they rounded the last corner the leaders had the main field breathing down their necks . |
| 19 | From there they crawled the last ten yards to the edge of a rise and looked down into the valley . |
| 20 | Wayne was driving now as they left the last of the houses behind , following the lake shore for a while until the wooded hillside of the Step rose up and screened it from their sight . |
| 21 | ‘ Railways still in a mess after the air raids — they were so delayed they missed the last ferry connection . |