Example sentences of "[noun] was the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Will ye shut up ? ’ from Nellie was the last thing the old couple heard as they watched the cart disappear down the track . |
| 2 | Tuesday was the last day of uncertainty . |
| 3 | Left-hander Jimmy Adams was the last man out for a defiant 47 . |
| 4 | Monument Hill was the last place he wanted to go to , but he knew he had to see it again for himself . |
| 5 | Puddephat 's murder was the last item in the bulletin . |
| 6 | Right now the well-being of his car seat was the last thing on her mind . |
| 7 | Saturday was the last night , and Miles would be leaving on Monday . |
| 8 | This car was the last to be constructed without a sponsor , although it has since been sponsored by several firms . |
| 9 | Then I remembered that , in the car was the last red rose from Bayeux — I placed it on the rough ground outside the house , and prayed for the family whose happy , safe home it had once been . |
| 10 | The Heartaches fielded three slow left-arm bowlers ( Messrs Rice , T. , Rice J. and Edmonds P.H. ) , and of course , Mr Edmonds was the last of the trio to get a bowl . |
| 11 | Thus , in part , a causal circumstance is such that if it occurred , then even if there also occurred any change logically consistent with it and its effect , the effect occurred — or , it was the first and the effect was the last of a sequence of things such that the given connection obtained between each thing and its successor . |
| 12 | His air of innocence was the last straw . |
| 13 | He had the shamelessly sensuous look of a man for whom being saved from his sins was the last thing on his mind . |
| 14 | A £6,000 fine for VAT arrears was the last straw . |
| 15 | It clearly pleased Ana but pleasure was the last thing Candace felt . |
| 16 | PATSY Gillespie was the last MoD civilian employee murdered by the IRA on October 24 1990 . |
| 17 | Dana would be startled to see her , and a scene was the last thing either of them needed . |
| 18 | Jason was quite firm that marriage was the last thing he wanted . |
| 19 | Cold was the last thing she felt right now . |
| 20 | Indeed a precipitate British withdrawal was the last thing Washington wanted . |
| 21 | Asterix , whose village was the last in Gaul to resist the invading Romans , was conceived in the Fifties with , no doubt , the Occupation still fresh in memory . |
| 22 | ASTERIX AND THE BIG FIGHT Asterix , whose village was the last in Gaul to resist the invading Romans , was conceived in the Fifties with , no doubt , the Occupation still fresh in memory . |
| 23 | Lunch was the last thing on Juliet 's mind at that moment : she was far too excited . |
| 24 | When he arrived , getting down to work was the last thing on his mind . |
| 25 | The only bureau to ‘ fail ’ our test was The Last Word — we can only assume that someone simply had a brainstorm and left all the important bits out . |
| 26 | Russell Reynolds was the last of the Big Four to enter the London market — in 1972 — but has been far and away the most consistently successful . |
| 27 | Ivan Lendl was the last top-seeded US Open champion in 1987 . |
| 28 | England was the last nation to tour the Republic in 1984 ( I discount the Cavaliers ’ tour as a pirate operation ) , while France sent the largest contingent of international players , including the then captain and now national coach Pierre Berbizier , to play the SARB Centenary tour a couple of seasons ago . |
| 29 | Their Blenheim was the last to return , landing at 11.12 . |
| 30 | Bridget Culross was the last name with which he felt he need concern himself . |