Example sentences of "last [noun] he [vb past] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The last light he saw was before the large rectangular lid of the boot came down on him . |
| 2 | But chairman Tony Lewis denied last night he had been given the boot . |
| 3 | But last night he had been different . |
| 4 | Last night he had been rewarded by overhearing a quarrel between Doreen and her mother . |
| 5 | Last night he had been suffering from jet lag ; now he seemed to be fully recovered , and power flowed from him in waves . |
| 6 | Edinburgh solicitor Alistair Duff , confirmed last night he had been approached by a Libyan lawyer who visited Scotland in August . |
| 7 | ( 11 ) Last week he had been unable to control the class . |
| 8 | All last week he had been happier than for thirty years ; he was in love , overwhelmed with the charms of Emily Dawson and the outrageous hope that she might return his affection and become his wife . |
| 9 | The last thing he expected was an attack from above . |
| 10 | Now , the last thing he needed was sleep . |
| 11 | The last thing he needed was a lecture from a criminal . |
| 12 | Tweed was unable to argue with her — it was too public and the last thing he wanted was to draw attention to himself . |
| 13 | At this stage Hitler 's plans were still fluid , but the last thing he wanted was for the useful Danzig problem to be solved . |
| 14 | The last thing he wanted was word to be passed to Maud . |
| 15 | The last thing he wanted was to turn himself into a do-gooder , but he realized very quickly that most of the volunteers were genuinely and sincerely opening their hearts and homes . |
| 16 | The last thing he wanted was any fuss . |
| 17 | In 1970 , the last thing he wanted was to be reminded of Richard and the silly game they used to play . |
| 18 | When he got to the line about its not being long , love , till our wedding day , Jarvis felt the old undefined longing and the tears pricking his eyelids , though the last thing he wanted was a wedding day or a wife or any permanent relationship , come to that . |
| 19 | The last thing he wanted was an argument . |
| 20 | The last thing he remembered was reading at his counter . |
| 21 | And already in similiar circumstances in France last summer he had been presented with the kind of opportunity to prove himself that many young pianists must dream of in vain : he was called on , again at very short notice , to stand in for the even more illustrious Sviatoslav Richter at Richter 's own festival at the Grange Meslay near Tours . |
| 22 | Mr Prescott told the court that on the fateful evening Boxing Day last year he had been in the pub with Mr Maltby and another friend . |
| 23 | Boy called Daniel could n't write Daniel cos all last year he 'd been allowed to put Danny an he 'd forgotten how to write Daniel ! |
| 24 | And another boys name was Thomas and he could n't write that cos all last year he 'd been Tom an he 'd forgotten how to write his surname they 're not dim children both of them |
| 25 | On his last visit he had been given coffee . |
| 26 | Patrick says the last time he ran was in Gloucester was in driving wind and rain |
| 27 | He remembered the last time he had been in this situation . |
| 28 | While she spoke , she remembered Maxie 's grumble from behind his newspaper , the last time he had been home , when she had told him to do the leaves . |
| 29 | But the last time he had been in the headlines , people had known him by a different name — Chris Bott . |
| 30 | The last time he had been in Athens , when the group that called themselves ‘ November 17th ’ had hit the Procter & Gamble offices with an anti-tank rocket , he had not been admitted to the presence of this big man . |