Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] his last " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd passed his last medical , otherwise he would n't have been on board . |
| 2 | When Amy Moyle , the wife of Josias Clarke , died in 1631 her husband decided to petrify his last memory of her by having cut a supine effigy , which showed his wife in her shroud . |
| 3 | He commenced to read his last recantation , urging his listeners to fear God and obey the King and Queen . |
| 4 | On returning from Prague , Mozart had completed his last instrumental piece , the exquisitely melancholy Clarinet Concerto ( originally written for basset-horn ) , for his friend Anton Stadler , and in early November he wrote a short cantata , Kleine Freimaurer-Kantate , K.623 , for a Masonic meeting . |
| 5 | There was a feeling that Mill House might just be coming out of the doldrums : he had won his last race , beating his solitary rival at Sandown Park for the princely sum of £426 , and appeared to be coming back to his old self . |
| 6 | Harvey said how much he had enjoyed his last visit to Riga , and how sorry he was that he would n't be going there , and the man at the other end said that Leningrad was one of the most wonderful towns in the world . |
| 7 | When I spoke to his assistant she told he had said his last word on the subject and did not want to hear of it again . |
| 8 | He wanted to settle , once and for all , the question of whether Riddle had made his last journey inside the Wheel and for that reason he was resolved to have it closely examined by an expert . |
| 9 | Victor Frankenstein died a few hours after he had written his last word . |
| 10 | Only a year earlier he had performed his last hat-trick . |
| 11 | The dinghy had floated right down to him and he had used his last reserves of energy to clamber into it . |
| 12 | Duvall had used his last shell on the thing downstairs without realising . |
| 13 | As soon as King Henry had breathed his last the barons had turned on each other like ravening wolves , attacking their neighbours and ripe for every type of lawlessness . |
| 14 | They could hope to learn later where Berowne had spent his last day on earth . |
| 15 | Shortly after Frank 's release our belief that there was another hostage in the apartment was borne out when he was moved into the room next door where Frank had spent his last day . |
| 16 | He had spent his last years under effective house arrest at his home in Kufa . |
| 17 | He had spoken his last words . |
| 18 | Huy had spoken his last words quite automatically ; but their utterance made him realise in what world he now lived . |
| 19 | As you can see , if West had led his last spade dummy would have been forced to ruff and successfully play the ace of clubs . |
| 20 | With the leashing Trent had lost his last hope of escape . |
| 21 | He remembered the summer that he had failed his last school examination . |
| 22 | In Butler the seller lost the battle of the forms because he was careless and failed to make his last document a counter-offer instead of an acceptance . |