Example sentences of "[art] last [prep] [art] [noun] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He opened the freezer and helped himself to a cold beer and the last of the chicken drumsticks from the packet he had bought earlier in the week . |
| 2 | However , by 1607 , the last of the Ulster chieftains had either been routed or driven into exile and , in six of the nine counties , English and Scottish settlers arrived to consolidate colonial rule and the English monarchy . |
| 3 | Another revealed that the last of the Callanish eagles was gone for ‘ that place too has been taken over by Men who put to death what eagles they find . |
| 4 | Mr Gandhi was probably the last of the Nehru rulers , of whom the Congress Party is a creation . |
| 5 | THE last of the Brink's-Mat trials ended yesterday — with four more people going to jail . |
| 6 | The last of the shore birds will probably have arrived by this time . |
| 7 | The last of the London grands ? |
| 8 | Five years after being kidnapped in Beirut the last of the US hostages had finally come home . |
| 9 | He stood on the bottom step long after the heavy metal grids had been pulled across the foyer and the last of the cinema lights turned off . |
| 10 | Only a mile on , they passed the last of the Home outposts , at Dunglass , in a strong position above another of these precipitous deans ; and soon thereafter Dunbar came in sight , town and castle jutting into the Norse Sea , the eastern gateway to the fertile Lothians , red in blood to match the now prevailing redness in soil and stone . |
| 11 | They were also the last of the home unions to award caps for internationals against France and they steadfastly refused to pick any capped players for ‘ B ’ internationals , which they have from this coming season stopped playing . |
| 12 | Yet was just climbing through the room on the spiral stair , bearing the last of the packing cases up to the laboratory . |
| 13 | In June , Malta still flaunted a touch of green , softened by the last of the spring flowers . |
| 14 | The writing was on the wall , however , and the fateful day eventually arrived in 1906 , when the last of the Eastington mills finally closed , putting large numbers out of work and ending a long history of cloth making in the parish . |
| 15 | Manfred von Carstein , the last of the Vampire Counts of Sylvania , is destroyed along with his Undead hordes . |
| 16 | The last of the Rat-Tail men walked on down the High Street towards the Cross , stars his calling-cards . |
| 17 | ABOVE : Brookhouse Mill in the throes of conversion to dwellings , the last of the Painswick mills to be worked commercially , producing pins . |
| 18 | But today , realizing the problems she might have in controlling her mount let alone in staying on should it prop at a hedge or peck on landing , she decided discretion was the better part of valour and shortening her left rein swung Hullabaloo away in the other direction to take what was known as the Funks ' Run , which ran round a long ridge of elms , across the brook at its narrowest point , and then over a good two miles of open ground , with only one reasonable sized open ditch and hedge to be jumped at the bottom of the dip before a long run uphill which led back to the last of the Vale hedges . |
| 19 | The other outstanding cup tie , between Old Loughtonians and Broxbourne , has been arranged for Sunday week because Broxbourne are involved in the last of the East qualifiers for the Royal Bank English Indoor Championship . |
| 20 | The other outstanding cup tie , between Old Loughtonians and Broxbourne , has been arranged for Sunday week because Broxbourne are involved in the last of the East qualifiers for the Royal Bank English Indoor Championship . |
| 21 | We have yet to experience any hard frosts , so autumn leaves still cling to branches and there are still a few flowers of white dead nettle , red campion and yarrow to attract the last of the drone flies . |
| 22 | It was almost morning when the last of the accident victims was warded . |
| 23 | He spent the afternoon in the Britches , as soon as the last of the party guests had departed . |
| 24 | Cardiff watched as the three policemen on the cordon-barrier lifted the wooden pole and the last of the police cars slid past and vanished into the storm . |
| 25 | 3 The Last of the Star Children |
| 26 | But she could n't live on satsumas and the last of the bacon rashers until after Christmas . |
| 27 | The last of the Blackadder adventures says more about the reality of war than a host of documentaries . |
| 28 | The last of the oil fires in Kuwait , which had been started by retreating Iraqi forces igniting well heads , was capped on Nov. 6 . |
| 29 | The last of the oil fires in Kuwait , which had been started when retreating Iraqi forces ignited well heads , has been capped . |