Example sentences of "as the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cameron turned back into the house for his cloak and tried to order his thoughts as the last fogginess of sleep evaporated in his head . |
| 2 | You feel him imagining himself as the last rock of culture and civilization being swept over by a wave of barbarism and Jews ( communism and commercialism ) , the saviour of more than the Constitution , the saviour of all that has been culture , the snob of the West . |
| 3 | They had no great love for Conservatism , but , given the tenor of Liberal politics , saw the Conservative party as the last hope in a struggle to preserve their own brand of Liberalism . |
| 4 | Should one see him as the last of the Pre-Raphaelites ? |
| 5 | Tomorrow 's meeting is seen as the last opportunity to decide on the bill which would allow redevelopment to commence in 1991 . |
| 6 | THE sickening events in Romania over the past few days now leave Albania as the last resort of old-style Stalinism . |
| 7 | Built in the 1860s as the last privately built palace in Prague , and later partially converted to a cafe , The Slavia 's significance came from its location . |
| 8 | Morrissey is needed , not as an ombudsman , or a figure of the eighties , but as a horrified figure against the eighties , who has turned his back on the march of pop time as the last keeper of the sanctuary of self-pity , apartness , exile ’ ( David Stubbs ) . |
| 9 | Brian Rose was brought in for his first home Test and promised he would attack the bowling ; he was as good as his word and made 70 , but 33 from Gatting was the only other contribution as the last seven wickets went for 24 in fifty-two minutes . |
| 10 | The feeling was that Richards should have declared before he did as the last hour 's batting produced few runs , but when England set about playing out time , Larkins , having gone first ball in the first innings , lasted only one more this time . |
| 11 | His friends hail him as the last great artist of the 20th century . |
| 12 | He was a champion of 19th century book illustration , which he regarded as the last relatively unexplored corner of the English artistic tradition . |
| 13 | EC trade analysts said last night that M Delors was probably happy to raise the temperature of the dispute , to minimise expectations for his Washington mission , which until yesterday was being seen as the last chance to save the five-year round of Gatt talks . |
| 14 | ‘ Easy now , ’ Alec was more relaxed as the last of the metal dropped into the sand . |
| 15 | As the last of their horses plunged across , Perry and Whipple 's cavalry approached . |
| 16 | As the last cardboard boxes |
| 17 | His homosexuality made him an outcast , he had no job to do , very little money to live on , and ended his days in an alcoholic haze clinging desperately to his Old Etonian tie as the last link with his sordid past . |
| 18 | The military type shackles will fit your Land Rover and are probably best sourced from a Land Rover breaker as the last time we purchased new they were virtually impossible to obtain . |
| 19 | ‘ Whheeccchhhh ! ’ shouted a female voice as the band robustly played the Gay Gordons , announced as the last dance . |
| 20 | As the last linen strands parted , she toppled , hissing with pain . |
| 21 | City shopkeepers thought this would be disastrous as the last thing that people cooped up in offices all day want to do is to plunge underground when at last they have a chance to get out in the fresh air . |
| 22 | As the last of the boys arrived I thought that maybe I could just make my way to the back of the queue , or sprint back to the changing room on one pretext or another and conveniently lose my place in the line . |
| 23 | They are seen as the last defence of standards . |
| 24 | In steady conditions this is an entirely fair way to start ; a board starting early through the gate has exactly the same chance of reaching the first mark as the last boat through . |
| 25 | You may be able to claim constructive dismissal even if the incident which directly leads to your departure is minor , if it can be regarded as the last straw . |
| 26 | ‘ No poem of mine was composed under circumstances more pleasant for me to remember than this , ’ Wordsworth wrote : Cottle 's home in Wine Street was probably the setting in which ‘ Tintern Abbey ’ reached written form , and almost at once it was chosen to take a place of honour as the last of the Lyrical Ballads . |
| 27 | In the final collected edn. of SB it appears as the last of the seven items grouped under the title ‘ Our Parish ’ to form the first section of the book . |
| 28 | Throughout the '80s he had been a tower of strength as the last line in defence and had single-handedly reversed the image of the inept Scottish keeper . |
| 29 | Most meetings , for example , would benefit by regularly having a 15 minute review as the last item on the agenda . |
| 30 | Share the tension and drama as the last Lancaster bomber is ‘ talked down ’ to safety after a raid over enemy territory . |