Example sentences of "[pron] was in [art] last " in BNC.
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1 | I was in the last category , I reckoned , which did n't stop me wishing I 'd been born into the first . |
2 | We leave the book with a clear image of war which was in the last line , we are just as bad as the boys on that island , that is what man is like . |
3 | and within the last say twenty five years there 's been a dramatic change in the young people 's way of thinking , maybe more of them have gone to university than they did the previous twenty five years and that there is such a difference now than there was that I mean for instance if there was a war there would n't , there would be far more conscientious objectors than there ever was before far more than erm young man saying no I 'm going to fight for my country , be patriotic I do n't think you would find , for instance , the youth of this country so patriotic as they was in the last war , your country needs you . |
4 | Academic analysts are unanimous that the British press is highly partisan , even if it is less so than it was in the last century and even though proprietors are strongly profit-motivated . |
5 | Yet the output is little over half what it was in the last five years before 1939 . |
6 | It was in the last year of the old century , 1899 , that Grahame began his love affair with Fowey and its river . |
7 | In registered motion paths , you click for each node , and so can accurately define where the actor will be in each frame relative to where it was in the last frame . |
8 | It was in the last Staff Association agreement . |
9 | From up here he had a panoramic view over a large part of the course and as he was in the last row could see behind as well as forward . |