Example sentences of "[verb] been the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | Balanchine would have been the last person to break or contradict the thematic content and destroy the composer 's intentions . |
| 2 | He should have been the last person to be killed . |
| 3 | It must have been the last one left in London . |
| 4 | Dot woke on that morning that could have been the last morning of her life and knew by the brightness reflected across the ceiling that she was safe , for the roads would still be blocked . |
| 5 | It must have been the last straw to a tired Lancaster crew to have home in sight , and then to be attacked by a fighter . |
| 6 | A spitting , scratching , panic-stricken wild feline would have been the last kind of boat-companion they would have wanted . |
| 7 | This was not the first time and , if he had survived , certainly would not have been the last . |
| 8 | To be led through the streets of St Petrick 's by a policeman would have been the last straw ! |
| 9 | The tower must have been the last sight of land for hundreds of drowning mariners in peace and war . |
| 10 | Matchsticks would have been the last one at the Pessarane Behesht camp he would have chosen to accompany him on this mission . |
| 11 | ‘ Must have been the last time I saw him . |
| 12 | The shows on that 1987 reunion tour are among the best we 've done and I remember a cracking night in the Olympia which would have been the last time we visited Dublin . |
| 13 | A possible explanation is that this jacket may well have been the last issue made to C/Sgt Nicholl in the last year or so of his service , and , as will be seen , may have been scarcely worn . |
| 14 | In what might conceivably have been the last chance of a diplomatic settlement , with the encouraging or surreal touches of a personally popular Ho walking up the Champs Elysees to lay a wreath on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and standing beside Bidault on the Fourteenth of July , these were the fundamental issues . |
| 15 | Max Beerbohm 's generation must have been the last to which the delicious syllabub was a familiar childhood treat . |
| 16 | it must have been the last he wrote — saying |
| 17 | It might as well have been the last rites . |
| 18 | And to slip in the mud must have been the last straw . |
| 19 | She would have been the last person in the world to interfere with that . |
| 20 | He must have been the last to drink it . |
| 21 | She wondered whether to ask Mrs Baggley if she realised that she might have been the last person to see or hear of Paul Gray alive . |
| 22 | Can not the right hon. Gentleman accept that the Para battalions should have been the last to be cut , and that , if cuts must be made , they should be made on the basis of operational effectiveness , not political expediency ? |
| 23 | And yet insiders think this may have been the last match of its kind , the end of an era . |
| 24 | If Louis , Martin 's brother-in-law , was in fact the son of Louis and Marie Francard , then he would have been the last Parisian descendant of the line of Louis I Marriage contract of Jacques le Romain , 1728 |
| 25 | Erm it must have been the last day , it must have been Friday , must have been Friday . |
| 26 | Bert Röling , the Dutch international lawyer who died in early 1985 , having been the last surviving judge from the International Military Tribunal for the Far East at Tokyo , addressed the nuclear weapons issue as much in terms of purported prudential policy-making as in terms of legal principle . |
| 27 | This seems to have been the last of Hope 's involvement in actual building , and with the founding of the Saturday , he turned to journalism , although in 1865 the Institute of British Architects elected him as their President . |
| 28 | This is said to have been the last contact between the Judaeo-Christian Nazareans and the coalescing orthodoxy based on Pauline thought . |
| 29 | The daughter told her mother and , said Mr Stevenson , that appeared to have been the last straw for her . |
| 30 | If the figure on the cross had been the last sight of him , we would have heard nothing more of him and there would have been no Church . |