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 . |