Example sentences of "[noun sg] was the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | Puddephat 's murder was the last item in the bulletin . |
| 2 | Right now the well-being of his car seat was the last thing on her mind . |
| 3 | This car was the last to be constructed without a sponsor , although it has since been sponsored by several firms . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | His air of innocence was the last straw . |
| 7 | It clearly pleased Ana but pleasure was the last thing Candace felt . |
| 8 | Dana would be startled to see her , and a scene was the last thing either of them needed . |
| 9 | Jason was quite firm that marriage was the last thing he wanted . |
| 10 | Cold was the last thing she felt right now . |
| 11 | Indeed a precipitate British withdrawal was the last thing Washington wanted . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Lunch was the last thing on Juliet 's mind at that moment : she was far too excited . |
| 15 | When he arrived , getting down to work was the last thing on his mind . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The boy 's fate was the last and the least reverberation of that disastrous thunder , but not the least pitiful . |
| 18 | New South Promenade was the last major extension to the Blackpool system , completed on 2 October 1926 and opened by Lord Derby . |
| 19 | Aston Mill was the last of the Carrant Brook mills to be worked , finally going out of business in the early 1960s . |
| 20 | The old chieftain was the last . |
| 21 | Feast Sunday was again the traditional date for the sing , but Mapplewell and Staincross Feast was the last Sunday in July . |
| 22 | A law of nature was the last word ; and just as God could not break a law of logic ( by making something both red and green all over , for example ) , so it was felt that He could not break a law of nature . |
| 23 | The only low point was the last album , with a photo of his son in hospital . |
| 24 | The Edinburgh Conference was the last to be held under the complete trade-union domination which had been noticeable since 1932 . |
| 25 | Phipps 's latest conquest — he rarely went long without excitement — had been the childless and bored Mrs Venables , whose cake was the last he 'd tasted , and whose husband was the local chemist . |
| 26 | In the event , the February 1956 crisis was the last time that Franco was able to apply old methods to new situations . |
| 27 | Roman was the last man to turn aside once he had decided on a course of action . |
| 28 | The sermon that evening was the last straw . |
| 29 | The meeting was the last scientific gathering to be held in Thames Water 's New River Head building from which the laboratories have now moved to the new Docklands site . |
| 30 | The Poll Tax was the last straw . |