Example sentences of "[noun prp] [was/were] [verb] [prep] [art] last " in BNC.
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| 1 | Norman Pinder was creeping through the last few yards of shrubbery before he would reach the window of the small seminar room . |
| 2 | Finally , if the worst happened , Spain was seen as a last line of continental defence . |
| 3 | A planned trip by PLO chair Yassir Arafat to Syria in mid-October was cancelled at the last moment . |
| 4 | Mrs Fletcher was bending over the last of a bed of weeds , hoping finally to rid herself of them before her husband returned from the potato harvesting . |
| 5 | Yesterday Essex were taken to the last over by first-class newcomers Durham before securing a four-wicket win in a 50-over friendly at Chelmsford . |
| 6 | In each instance , the EC was seen as the last hope of halting the developments . |
| 7 | Both John Lehmann 's books and Ealing Studios ' film posters point up the fact that Minton was working in the last great era of illustration , before graphic means were ousted by photographic . |
| 8 | To make matters worse , most of the contents of the Musée Jacquemart-André were evacuated during the last war . |
| 9 | The controversy came to a head this weekend in the annual Town versus Gown match in Oxford , when Jodi Evans was told at the last minute that she could n't play in the men 's game . |