Example sentences of "come [prep] the last [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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1 | His hundred , the ninth in a career which has now entered its 15th year , came off the last ball of the game after his captain , Graham Gooch , had delayed the final formality of a declaration . |
2 | The turning point for Hunt came in the last race of the first half of the season when Lauda retired from the French Grand Prix with a rear mechanical fault and Hunt took full advantage by winning . |
3 | They only came in the last winter of the war , just a few months . |
4 | The second came in the last minute of normal time and followed an impressive maul , in which Boro drove over the line but could n't get the ball down . |
5 | She had n't done that she said since she was my age and came to the last page of Le Rouge et le Noir . |
6 | The Bush broadside came on the last day of the Republicans ' convention in Houston , Texas . |
7 | Sorting went on day and night for a fortnight , and indeed beyond , for books kept on coming till the last moment of the sale . |
8 | ‘ When it come to the last quarter of an hour , you want to have that last a long while ! ’ |
9 | ‘ It 's now a tradition that she comes for the last week of the campaign , ’ he says . |
10 | — Comes from the last syllable of barracões the Portuguese word for buildings constructed for holding slaves before they were sold . |