Example sentences of "be [verb] [prep] its 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 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 : |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | In 1970 it was acquired by its last owner , Don Campbell of Ontario , who was in the process of restoring it to flying condition . |