Example sentences of "be [verb] [prep] [pron] 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 | Confusion over whether Mr Robert Maxwell , publisher of Mirror Group Newpapers , also had reservations were dismissed by him last night . |
| 9 | We were caught on our last night at Dhundi by the first of seven days bad weather . |
| 10 | You were looking for it last night . |
| 11 | ‘ When you were shouting at me last night I realised , perhaps for the first time , just exactly what you 'd gone through all your life . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The crowd were getting at them last night . |
| 14 | Yo you know the numbers that were allocated to you last time . |
| 15 | They were dancing for you last night . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The first nine were reissued earlier and were welcomed by me last October . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . ’ |
| 20 | I got quite , I was given to it last year , I reckon |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | I think for example of the sensitivity of some of the small market towns , the point for example that was made to us last week about the sensitivity one settlement with which I 've come increasingly familiar over the last fortnight and that is town centre . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 ) . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Is that what she was saying to you last night ? |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | I s that was the thing , Dave was moaning about it last night see . |
| 30 | 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 . |