Example sentences of "him [prep] the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd slaved for him for the last seven year , and before that ever since she was born — eight or nine year was it — at the Old Mint ? |
| 2 | The familiar house , the carpeted hall , were before him for the last time . |
| 3 | I walked back behind him for the last several hundred yards , and was shocked at the sheer , mindless , bestial ferocity of the crowd . |
| 4 | Though he was more like his old self , many suspected they were seeing him for the last time . |
| 5 | Subconsciously he must have been expecting something like this : his first reaction was not surprise but an intensification of the dull misery which had enveloped him for the last 24 hours . |
| 6 | Then Riven asked the question that had been gnawing at him for the last day : ‘ What about Murtach ? ’ |
| 7 | Would some lingering affection for the man she had once married have driven her to France to see him for the last time ? |
| 8 | One day soon she would see him for the last time . |
| 9 | ‘ We have him for the last five games of the League run-in . |
| 10 | Mr Davidson 's father , Robert Snr , said Mrs Holmes had been working for him for the last eight years . |
| 11 | You saw him for the last time in 1959 . |
| 12 | With surprise , Juliet realised he was referring to his hospital episode , when she had nursed him for the last two weeks of his stay . |
| 13 | That stubbornness had got him through the last four years , but he had finally had to admit that walking out on his wife had been the biggest mistake of his life . |
| 14 | Should one see him as the last of the Pre-Raphaelites ? |
| 15 | His friends hail him as the last great artist of the 20th century . |
| 16 | Harry Carpenter came up to interview him and asked him about the last putt . |
| 17 | I certainly feel it was a great delight to him during the last days of his life . ’ |
| 18 | I certainly feel it was a great delight to him during the last days of his life . ’ |
| 19 | R. H. Sherard nursed him during the last six months of his life . |
| 20 | He had to be assisted as he flayed himself , but he got most of the skin off as easily as a cardigan , and the minister only had to help him with the last few strips . |
| 21 | During the campaign itself Healey was noticed by only about 12 per cent on average but that concealed some sharp variations : 28 per cent noticed him in the last two days of the campaign , immediately after a spectacular on-screen row with TV-am presenter Ann Diamond . |
| 22 | This sort of nonsense could have been fairly innocuous had it not been for the fact that under Napoleon I , the frequent employment of courtiers in great and influential offices of state had led to a gradual isolation of the Emperor , which in turn gave too much power to those close to the throne , many of whom , it should be noted , actively worked against him in the last years of the reign . |
| 23 | Notice the bust of Dobrovský standing in front of the charming garden house which the Nostics gave him in the last years of his life . |
| 24 | You will remember that we met him in the last commercial . |
| 25 | A lot of humans had been in to look at him in the last few minutes . |
| 26 | I hardly made a bean from him in the last five . |
| 27 | ‘ How much money have you given him in the last three weeks ? ’ |
| 28 | If he races on Saturday New Level will line up against the much fancied Ringa Hustle and the dog which beat him in the last round , Apres Soleil , which is on offer at 80–1 . |
| 29 | Come and clean my windows and I owed him from the last time . |
| 30 | But a loveable man with it and a smile on him to the last . |