Example sentences of "of [noun prp] [prep] the last [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In each of the last four games there 's been speculation that Lou Macari was taking charge of Stoke for the last time . |
| 2 | The strategy , in evidence in the display of Auerbach 's work , effectively refuses the notion , which in Britain has had particularly powerful influence as a result of the writings of Carlyle in the last century , underpins the labelling of portraits in exhibitions ( such as The Swagger Portrait , Tate Gallery 1992 ) and in institutions like the National Portrait Gallery . |
| 3 | Adam of Eynsham , the biographer of St Hugh of Lincoln , gives us a revealing description of Richard in the last summer of his life . |
| 4 | During the terrible siege of Leningrad in the last war supplies were eventually conveyed to the starving thousands on carts from Finland across the Baltic Sea and the Gulf of Finland ( it was fortunately an exceptionally cold winter ) — what must have been a fearsome journey . |
| 5 | The pre-antibiotic irrigations used organic silver solutions , mercuric salts , potassium permanganate , and even , by a very sporting Dr Porosz of Budapest during the last century , nitric acid . |
| 6 | John , to get to the point , we 've had a bus in Portsmouth plastered with G M B slo slogans , a talking point of Portsmouth for the last fortnight . |
| 7 | On the day Khomeini flew in to Mehrabad Airport , she and Nader Nadirpur flew out of Teheran for the last time . |
| 8 | The herati design ( pls 22 , 23 ) derives its name from the town of Herat ( part of Persia until the last century , but now in Afghanistan ) , where it is said to have originated . |
| 9 | In parts of London during the last century , for example , it was certainly not safe to walk the streets at night , with violence and robbery commonplace , as the stories of Charles Dickens illustrate . |
| 10 | Traditionally the British had been Champagne 's most lucrative customers — after the drink had been popularised in society by the Marlboroughs and the Prince of Wales in the last half of the nineteenth century . |