Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [prep] [art] last [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Mr Hayward said Roberts had tried to kill himself again in the last day or two with a drugs overdose .
2 He implants ideas , gives clues , prompts proposals , and avoids committing himself publicly until the last moment .
3 ‘ He 's been my guardian spirit for years and it 's interesting to be forced to suppress all my own creativity in order to copy him slavishly to the last detail .
4 In 1979 he voted for Margaret Thatcher , backing her again at the last election after a switch to the SDP in 1983 .
5 I turned again to Ellen , pretty freckled Ellen with her high cheekbones and clever green eyes and flaming hair and mocking smile , and I suddenly wondered whether McIllvanney had spoken to her again in the last week .
6 " I knew him briefly in the last days before the Rising , but I know of his work of course .
7 he 's done nothing , put it right for the last year .
8 Leaving , Nicholas crashed the door open and then , remembering , closed it soundlessly in the last inch of its movement .
9 At last he was freed , and gritting his teeth , Jack took the small forearm firmly in his hands and lifted it quickly off the last spike .
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