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 .
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