Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] a last resort " in BNC.

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1 Residential care has been viewed and therefore avoided as something of a last resort .
2 ‘ I only use it as a last resort , when the dog is impeding my progress .
3 Tom Poole suggested it as a last resort , and Coleridge , who remembered the cottage , immediately asked him to take it for a year .
4 Certain spiders also use it as a last resort .
5 ‘ But now I only use it as a last resort . ’
6 Gain-up does tend to make the picture look rather grainy , though , so it is best to look on it as a last resort and reserve it for those times when a grainy picture is better than no picture at all .
7 He said : ‘ They seemed to be using us as a last resort .
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