Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [prep] the last [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Must say , I know some of you do n't like boxing , erm , I was at the last tournament in Honiton . |
| 2 | I was in the last category , I reckoned , which did n't stop me wishing I 'd been born into the first . |
| 3 | Where has she been for the last decade ? |
| 4 | If you are on the last field of an option and you press TAB , an error message is reported at the foot of the page . |
| 5 | Second , how successful you were in the last job so that she ? he can gauge what calibre of person you are . |
| 6 | But er and if sh she 's in the last book , she tells how ugly erm , erm Steve was . |
| 7 | She was on the last mouthful . |
| 8 | Twice weekly she went to Bath to meet Edward , though ever afterwards he made sure she was on the last bus home . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm sure we 're on the last lap now . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ We consider training to be crucial and we are spending more on it now than we were during the last recession , ’ he said . |
| 11 | By the time they started ‘ I Guess it Does n't Matter Anymore ’ they were onto the last saucepan and the table was covered with clean , dry things . |
| 12 | Few people are offended today , as they were in the last century , by the thought of man and the chimpanzee being classified together by virtue of a common ancestor which has been extinct for probably more than three million years ! |
| 13 | Women are not debarred from any legal statuses which are held by men , as they were in the last century . |
| 14 | and within the last say twenty five years there 's been a dramatic change in the young people 's way of thinking , maybe more of them have gone to university than they did the previous twenty five years and that there is such a difference now than there was that I mean for instance if there was a war there would n't , there would be far more conscientious objectors than there ever was before far more than erm young man saying no I 'm going to fight for my country , be patriotic I do n't think you would find , for instance , the youth of this country so patriotic as they was in the last war , your country needs you . |
| 15 | Now that idea was to get everybody together and erm because there have been certain members of the staff which have n't been looked at for a period of time they 've escaped the net as it were in the last couple of times and it seems that we 've had the same guys for the last three years and some have erm |
| 16 | I mean , has , has anyone else got these wo , it 's off the last bulletin . |
| 17 | It seems quite a while ago now , but it 's about the last thing I remember . |
| 18 | but it 's in the last brochure had the extra warmth ones , which I like |
| 19 | Right er number four er the National Entertainments Conference organized by the N U S. I have since secured some money from Executive Committee to send two representatives to this Committee , and it 's in the last week of the summer holidays . |
| 20 | Gives it to us in psalm a hundred and thirty three and it 's in the last verse . |
| 21 | It is from the last line of this work that the LNWR coined the name for their locomotive . |
| 22 | The shift of leadership to John Smith may seem temporarily convincing , but it is in the last analysis cosmetic . |
| 23 | And at a time when the Ingard lot are pressed for money , he 's about the last person you 'd have thought they 'd go to any trouble over . |
| 24 | In spite of the recent very regrettable rises in unemployment , in his constituency and in Sheffield as a whole unemployment remains a quarter lower than it was at the last election and a third below its peak in 1986 . |
| 25 | It was on the last day of 1988 that he began the experiments whose data were to appear in the published paper . |
| 26 | Ca n't tell you how long a journey it was back in the fog from Liverpool that day , and then when we were relegated back again to the third division it was on the last match of the season against Charlton , and the heavens opened and a big thunder storm and it just flooded the pitch and the referee just called the match off and they had to play it again the following Friday and Charlton ran out two-one winners and Walsall finished with nine fit men and still that 's the football I suppose . |
| 27 | When Mellor joined colleagues for yesterday 's Cabinet meeting , he knew it was for the last time . |
| 28 | It was in the last year of the old century , 1899 , that Grahame began his love affair with Fowey and its river . |
| 29 | Academic analysts are unanimous that the British press is highly partisan , even if it is less so than it was in the last century and even though proprietors are strongly profit-motivated . |
| 30 | In registered motion paths , you click for each node , and so can accurately define where the actor will be in each frame relative to where it was in the last frame . |