Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [was/were] the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | So suddenly fatherless , and so abruptly given to a husband , translated from the familiar company of her sisters at Brecon to this barbarous foreign court where she was the last and loneliest of the children , Isabella had looked round her forlornly for an anchorage to which she might ride in safety . |
| 2 | Summarising prospects for a US-Soviet summit , Baker said : " I think we are right where we were the last time . " |
| 3 | She looked at me unsmiling and I opened my mouth to protest that I was the last person in the world to take such a thing for granted , that I was the only person in the world who held a low opinion of sexual experience . |
| 4 | I ca n't do that I tell you , I mean I do n't mind , do n't get me wrong it 's just that I was the last one back up and I got up there , still got a little bit of to do and they got more than they did |
| 5 | Because I was going to the hospital wing I did n't get taken up until about nine o'clock , so I was the last one . |
| 6 | ‘ So I was the last one to see her ? ’ said Coffin . |
| 7 | ‘ It seems likely that you were the last person to see Glynn alive , apart from his murderer , but at the moment I am more interested in what you can tell me about him — the sort of man he was — and about his friends and his enemies as far as you can . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's Captain America 's big birthday in 1992 , 50 years or something , so we were the last thing Marvel wanted around . |
| 9 | Well , I could hardly say no , although it was the last thing I wanted . |
| 10 | Although it was the last thing on their minds . |
| 11 | Gavin Laird , the general secretary of the Amalgamated Engineering Union , said that it was the last ‘ burning issue ’ Labour needed to resolve before the next election . |
| 12 | In the first three months of 1990 , the guess is that they were again about 13% lower than in the first quarter of 1989 , but there are now hopes that it was the last drop for a while . |
| 13 | There is still a perverse pride in the modern county that it was the last area in England to be converted from paganism . |
| 14 | A recollection of John Davies , the minister for Europe in Heath 's cabinet , indicated the mood , ‘ We were at home in Cheshire , and I said to my wife and children that we should have a nice time , because I deeply believed then that it was the last Christmas of its kind that we would enjoy . ’ , |
| 15 | In a wider sense , however , the real significance of what had happened at Bleiburg on 15 May was that it was the last major surrender of the European war . |
| 16 | They were both too conscious that it was the last , the knowledge weighing heavily on them , giving rise to complex emotion each time their eyes met , until eventually they started avoiding looking at each other . |
| 17 | Will my hon. Friend confirm that it was the last Labour Government who introduced a value added tax of 25 per cent . |
| 18 | On Feb. 4 Hor Nam Hong announced that it was the last extension of the Assembly 's mandate , and that elections would be held in 1992 with or without a political settlement . |
| 19 | When Teacher came out and rang his bell for the children to line up in neat rows , she held Frankie back so that he was the last to obey the signal . |
| 20 | He told himself that he was the last man who could reasonably be expected to advise or reassure on the problems of pregnancy and he sensed that Rickards 's unhappiness at his wife 's absence went deeper than missing her company . |
| 21 | He believed that he was the last hostage left . |
| 22 | He was the last missioner to the deaf to be Chairman of the BDA , and it is virtually certain that he was the last hearing person to hold this office . |
| 23 | In view of the evasive comments he later made on this latter episode ( Canon Demant tells of his being pressed by some German students and saying that he was the last person to be able to answer them ) , I believe that he had experienced a moment of horrifying self-revelation ‘ of all that he had done and been ’ and thought , which had opened up a wound that could not heal . |
| 24 | A man who 's recently died called Percy Stalwood who lived next door reckons that he was the last person to use the well . |
| 25 | ‘ We made it , and Chapman and I were the last on to the train . |
| 26 | ‘ And I was the last man off of 17,000 because I was still in the bus when they all went to the start . ’ |
| 27 | Well I think you can go home now cos I was the last . |
| 28 | It was only a ten minute thing , and everybody , cos I was the last one , of course , out of us , a group of twenty , and was so like freezing at the top of this mountain , I was n't exactly popular . |
| 29 | And you were the last person to see her . |
| 30 | If she were the last lassie in the world I couldny |