Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] a last [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and then he came to me as a last hope |
| 2 | Get them for a last bargain . |
| 3 | Residential care has been viewed and therefore avoided as something of a last resort . |
| 4 | Was she genuinely reaching out to him as a last source of help ? |
| 5 | He wanted to dissipate it and leave her with a last impression of him that was not totally unpleasant . |
| 6 | Curtis , fully aware that this was the last night of the Prophet 's current crusade , had anticipated that he might choose it for a last hunting expedition , before retreating to his lair upstate . |
| 7 | Perhaps they saw it as a last call for help to come to a failing Britain . |
| 8 | I take it as a last question , comment . |
| 9 | ‘ I only use it as a last resort , when the dog is impeding my progress . |
| 10 | Tom Poole suggested it as a last resort , and Coleridge , who remembered the cottage , immediately asked him to take it for a year . |
| 11 | Certain spiders also use it as a last resort . |
| 12 | ‘ But now I only use it as a last resort . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | When I 'd completed this process I turned to the mirror to look at myself for a last time . |
| 15 | He said : ‘ They seemed to be using us as a last resort . |