Example sentences of "be [verb] [prep] [pos pn] last [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the McDermott-Scotland yard at Ardersier , near Inverness , 40 workers are to go after its last job , a jacket for Amerada Hess 's Scott oilfield , was shipped out on Tuesday . |
| 2 | The room had been tidied since his last visit . |
| 3 | Those unemployed in the 1972 survey had been classified by their last job . |
| 4 | Encouraged , she admitted that she had been entrusted with their last £2000 , and had bought a houseboat , in point of fact , the barge Grace . |
| 5 | The reply from Barbarossa , couched in the most vituperative and courtly language , may be summarised by its last section , quoted here from the writings of Otto von Freising , his contemporary chronicler : |
| 6 | Check that promises made in good faith in your first paragraph have been delivered by your last paragraph . |
| 7 | The cameraman and sound recordist were mugged on their last day in Pittsburgh . |
| 8 | We were caught on our last night at Dhundi by the first of seven days bad weather . |
| 9 | Old and young were attended to their last resting place by those who had loved them , and slept in churchyards adjoining the fields where in life they had played or ploughed . |
| 10 | Some play activities , suitable for primary age children , were illustrated in my last chapter ; more explicit knowledge about language , appropriate to the secondary curriculum , is discussed here . |
| 11 | Now for the really crucial thing — when you 're reducing your time , all you care about is improving upon your last effort for the same distance . |
| 12 | Of course , the Prince himself has not yet been spoken to , but his secretary , Chang Shih-sen advises me that the copies he was given on his last visit are gone . ’ |
| 13 | A short time before his death Harry Chapman had left his Hampshire rest home to stay at Herbert 's home in Oakwood , Leeds , and the care with which he was attended in his last days showed his elder brother 's family loyalty and devotion . |
| 14 | As I said the er , the trolley buses were being phased out and the buses , the motor buses were being used more than ever and I do n't know the date of the last trolley bus running but I well remember it being reported time , it was the erm , bus was packed on its last journey from Electric House and people were photographing it . |
| 15 | The whole sorry enterprise generated a cynicism that was to be heightened by the Watergate scandal , which emerged as the tragedy of Vietnam was moving to its last stages ( p. 104 ) . |
| 16 | I was not of that minority , but the argument sharpened my concern for the education of the most-talented pupils — a concern that was to run through my last years in Banbury and into my work in Oxford . |
| 17 | Now one can make judgments about means and indeed as I was saying in my last lecture , the actual capability of the weapons you have can only really be found out when you use them and then you can see , very often , that they are in fact ineffective . |
| 18 | Now one can make judgments about means and indeed as I was saying in my last lecture , the actual capability of the weapons you have can only really be found out when you use them and then you can see , very often , that they are in fact ineffective . |
| 19 | So he , he , as I was talking to her last night on the phone the front door bell 's going and it 's our Fred from next door right looking after her and bringing forms for her to fill in to get dial-a-ride . |
| 20 | I was talking about her last week when our Queen came to visit me Elizabeth , with her white painted face , black teeth and red wig . |
| 21 | She knew he was referring to her last meeting with Jake and that explosive love scene in the drawing-room , only the sketchiest version of which he 'd been privy to . |
| 22 | While Mr Stych was canoeing back down a tributary of the Mackenzie– already dangerous with chunks of ice , to an appointment with a helicopter , Mr Frizzell was trying on his last year 's brocade waistcoat and finding it too small ; Mr MacDonald , Ian 's father , was winding up a trying compensation case for his insurance company at Vermilion ; and Mr MacDonald ( oil ) was trying to explain to his superiors in Sarnia , Ontario , why he must be back in a place like Tollemarche by the middle of December . |
| 23 | This subject was covered in my last article . |
| 24 | In 1970 it was acquired by its last owner , Don Campbell of Ontario , who was in the process of restoring it to flying condition . |