Example sentences of "[noun sg] come [prep] [art] last " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Bush broadside came on the last day of the Republicans ' convention in Houston , Texas . |
| 2 | However , some tail end enterprise came from the last batsman Chris Young ( 32 ) who ended top scorer . |
| 3 | When the meter man came for the last time he spoke of my aunt , and of the many years he had been to the house , so that he felt himself to be almost an old friend . |
| 4 | This month 's front-lines-of-natural-history dispatch comes from the last stop before the North Pole — Norway 's Svalbard island , where assistant producer Amanda Barrett and cameraman Owen Newman — having arrived to shoot a film about arctic foxes — found themselves alone in a cabin outpost many miles across sea , tundra and ice from the nearest point of civilisation . |
| 5 | The doctor came for the last time and said , ‘ Yes , he 's going now . ’ |
| 6 | Perhaps the most moving sentence in the whole book comes in the last chapter as he takes his leave of his reader : ‘ For it is not what you are nor what you have been that God regards with his most merciful eyes , but what you would like to be . ’ |
| 7 | One was the absence of faction round an heir to the throne old enough to provide a focal point for political opposition , The only exception came in the last years of James III ; in 1488 , in the second and final crisis of his reign , his opponents could use his fifteen-year-old son , the future James IV , as their figurehead . |
| 8 | And a grievous weeping came from the last of the three reeds . |