Example sentences of "[pers pn] was the last [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was the last person anyone thought would get pregnant . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Paul I was the last Tsar who actually enjoyed his office . |
| 4 | ‘ And I was the last man off of 17,000 because I was still in the bus when they all went to the start . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I was the last time I checked , ’ nodded the man . |
| 6 | I was the last thing which I had anticipated , and the last thing which I sought . |
| 7 | I moved to clear it as I was the last defender in front of goal . |
| 8 | She was the last person living to speak the language of the native islanders , so it was a pity that she could no longer use her tongue , except now and then to rasp out a harsh fragment of a song . |
| 9 | If she was the last woman on the face of the earth I would n't fuck her ! ’ |
| 10 | She was the last woman to be hanged in Scotland . |
| 11 | There was no looking back ; I wanted to remember Fiona as she was the last time we met , standing in the doorway of the croft , her black hair blowing in the breeze as she waved me goodbye . |
| 12 | She was the last passenger to set off across the tracks , laden with parcels from her shopping trip , and the little boy tagging along behind . |
| 13 | ‘ I do n't know , ’ he said smoothly , ‘ I can think of a couple of occasions when patronising you was the last thing on my mind . ’ |
| 14 | She picked up her book and began reading , making a show of turning the pages so that he was left in no doubt that his presence next to her was the last thing she needed . |
| 15 | But , as it turned out , it was the last instance of a complete Blitzkrieg triumph accompanied by the minimal losses which were once more a central element in the popular response to the Balkan success . |
| 16 | The young men had been playing football against a team from the small local college at Adrar , the town which was for me the end of tarmac and the beginning of the desert ; for these city boys , it was the last outpost . |
| 17 | ‘ Liz automatically had a rest after New York as it was the last race of the season ’ |
| 18 | It was the last person in the world he wanted to talk to , apart from Charmaine . |
| 19 | In legend , it lost its tail because it was the last animal to board the ark . |
| 20 | It was the last word to come out of St Pierre . |
| 21 | Zipped up the inside , and with a squared off toe , it was the last word in futuristic chic that was to be adapted and toned down for the mass market . |
| 22 | Maybe it was because it was the last school day of the week ; maybe it was because the house was especially tidy that day ; maybe it was because I was in the wrong house , at the wrong time , in the wrong Galaxy . |
| 23 | It was the last day of local working between Nottingham and Sheffield and therefore the Chesterfield Loop . |
| 24 | Ruth surveyed the freshly-turned earth and looked around for a flower she could place on the grave , but it was the last day of December and there was nothing in bloom . |
| 25 | It was the last day of shooting and they did n't need us till nine o'clock that morning , so Keenan [ Wynn ] and me went over to the bar and had a couple there and I said , ‘ You know , Keenan , it 's gon na be a long hot day so we 'd better stop off at the drug store and buy a jug . ’ |
| 26 | It was the last day of March , and overnight the belated wind had arrived to clear every vestige of fog from the brick and stone of London . |
| 27 | It was the last day of term at the University of Montreal . |
| 28 | when I was sixteen because it 's then I started to get these free passes and I had a sister then who lived at Rye and I had never been across London so the next door neighbour came with me to see me across London er because I was so young you see and I said right as long as you show me across London I can come back alone , you see , and so I came back alone and I , that 's when I started , so from sixteen and er and as I say I went to Cambridge in the nineteen thirty one , it was the last day of well say nineteen thirty two , you see , and , and also in the twenties I was going on holiday alone and I went to once er to the Isle of Man and when I was er I , I sat next , well being by myself , you see , they put me in , to a little table near the wall . |
| 29 | ‘ It was the last day of school and I had intended to phone you later although I had n't decided what to say . ’ |
| 30 | It was the last day of the fifth test between England and Australia . |