Example sentences of "[pers pn] was [prep] the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | Must say , I know some of you do n't like boxing , erm , I was at the last tournament in Honiton . |
| 2 | I was at the last Olympics and it was a tremendous experience . |
| 3 | I was about the last one with a tanker er before er strike I mean they 've been there afterwards but er and er a certain tank was empty . |
| 4 | I was in the last category , I reckoned , which did n't stop me wishing I 'd been born into the first . |
| 5 | Twice weekly she went to Bath to meet Edward , though ever afterwards he made sure she was on the last bus home . |
| 6 | She was on the last mouthful . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Assuming that I 'd been able to drag the dinghy in a fairly straight line — though I might have gone astray a bit when I was stumbling in the mud — Joanna should be lying more or less straight ahead , and a good deal nearer than when I 'd left , for it was near high water then , and now it was about the last of the ebb . |
| 9 | In spite of the recent very regrettable rises in unemployment , in his constituency and in Sheffield as a whole unemployment remains a quarter lower than it was at the last election and a third below its peak in 1986 . |
| 10 | It was on the last day of 1988 that he began the experiments whose data were to appear in the published paper . |
| 11 | Ca n't tell you how long a journey it was back in the fog from Liverpool that day , and then when we were relegated back again to the third division it was on the last match of the season against Charlton , and the heavens opened and a big thunder storm and it just flooded the pitch and the referee just called the match off and they had to play it again the following Friday and Charlton ran out two-one winners and Walsall finished with nine fit men and still that 's the football I suppose . |
| 12 | Again the warning is vital as it was for the last two techniques . |
| 13 | When Mellor joined colleagues for yesterday 's Cabinet meeting , he knew it was for the last time . |
| 14 | It was during the last years of the reign of Anne Boleyn 's daughter Elizabeth that the curative effects of lemon juice on scurvy victims was observed , although neither cause nor effect were understood . |
| 15 | Does my hon. Friend agree that , at 3.7 per cent. , the rate of inflation is half the lowest level that it was under the last Labour Government ? |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Yet the output is little over half what it was in the last five years before 1939 . |
| 18 | It was in the last year of the old century , 1899 , that Grahame began his love affair with Fowey and its river . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | It was in the last Staff Association agreement . |
| 21 | He was among the last representatives of this kind of Anglo-French noble before the Hundred Years War , and the peace that subsisted between 1303 and 1324 enabled him to remain loyal to both his overlords . |
| 22 | 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 . |