Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [pron] last " in BNC.
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| 1 | they 're broken My last one |
| 2 | ‘ While you 're eating your last breakfast , I 'll make out your bill , ’ he concluded dismissively . |
| 3 | It has pretty much happened , we 're chasing its last desperate apologists down a hole of their own making . |
| 4 | He 's been doing it last year on this foot mm , I think it was claw . |
| 5 | There are , of course , those who have infinitely more experience that Squidgey when it comes to caring and sharing with people who are spending their last days in AIDS wards and/or hospices . |
| 6 | Robyn followed as a determined Melissa led Luke , whose expression resembled that of a prisoner about to be given his last rites , across the field and in through the french windows . |
| 7 | I even remember it was a Sunday and thinking that this was not day to be flying your last mission . |
| 8 | Instead he will , in best bib and tucker , be performing his last official act as the Masters champion . |
| 9 | After easily reaching the quarter-finals of the Compaq Grand Slam Cup with a 6-1 , 6-4 victory over sadly outclassed Swede Nicklas Kulti , McEnroe — who could be playing his last singles tournament — refused to attend the normal mandatory post-match press conference . |
| 10 | By the time the next issue of FlyPast hits the magazine shelves the Vulcan will be making its last appearances as a flying exhibit . |
| 11 | The intimacy of television meant that this strange animal that liked to subtitle itself ‘ intimate revue ’ had to be breathing its last . |
| 12 | The main topic of conversation was not which England players are playing their last Test , but which is the most useless advertisement around the ground , now that Durox Supablocs of blessed memory seem to have faded back into the mists of uncertainty from whence they came . |
| 13 | Most of the inhabitants of the block were walking their last circuits before being locked in , and there was an absence of noise which merged with the deepening gloom . |
| 14 | With Bath to play their last match at home , it looks as if the title will once again belong to the West Country , even if Orrell were to win their last two games , as Bath 's points difference is much the greater . |
| 15 | On our journey back home , we were to do one last activity , either ten pin bowling or white water rafting . |
| 16 | They were to spend their last days there with her aunt Nicolette 's family in Neuilly where they had just moved . |
| 17 | On 24 May they were given yet another destination — Hazenbrouck , in the S-W corner of the semi-circle round Dunkirk where the 1st Bucks were to make their last stand . |
| 18 | He 's keeping his last remaining beds for acute admissions and asks , not unreasonably , for the patient 's blood pressure . |
| 19 | Mrs Leinen is spending her last few days with the children taking them for trips , including to London Zoo and the seaside . |
| 20 | He is marrying a rich American heiress tomorrow and is spending his last night on the town as a free man . |
| 21 | So the best thing to do is to have it last thing at night as you plonk your head on the pillow . |
| 22 | ‘ Are you thinking about the fact that we might have been murdered ourselves last night ? ’ |
| 23 | He was given his last — and only — pair of trousers on his birthday nearly a year earlier by his father . |
| 24 | ‘ I was expecting you last Wednesday . ‘ |
| 25 | I broke my nail I was biting it last night . |
| 26 | The man in the car was making his last call . |
| 27 | Convinced that in keeping him with her , she was merely indulging her maternal regard for him , Richard was playing his last card . |
| 28 | The sun was throwing its last handfuls of sunlight into the sky and the gulls were crying as they circled around the school . |
| 29 | She 's got no children , she was telling me last night in bed , there 's none on the way either . |
| 30 | Yes Julie was telling me last night . |