Example sentences of "[art] last [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The writings of the rabbis repeatedly maintain that the Holy spirit departed from Israel after the last of the prophets , Haggai , Zechariah and Malachi ( e.g. T. Sota 13:2 ) . |
| 32 | It was only when everyone was thinking of bed and Jean and Tina had gone off to give their respective babies their last feeds and Hilda was in the kitchen clearing the last of the dishes , that Bruce said , ‘ Would anyone like a nightcap ? ’ |
| 33 | Kim turned away , taking the last of the objects from the bag and setting it down on the bedside table . |
| 34 | China has just freed the last of the students jailed after the pro-democracy demonstrations four years ago , and this is seen as a sign of wanting improved relations with the west . |
| 35 | The last of the mines had been closed around the time of Tace 's birth and the entrances to the shafts had been closed or blocked by rockfalls . |
| 36 | What began for us as the effort to capture a purely objective record of what we saw gradually dissolved into a quest , an odyssey of self-discovery which actually took place amongst the last of the lands of real living kings and queens , dragons and pirates , cannibals and headhunters , mystics and magicians . |
| 37 | ( Aside to the PLAYER , who is the last of the TRAGEDIANS . ) |
| 38 | As he travelled , so the last of the migrations travelled south past him — the arctic tern , the redwing , and some of the gulls . |
| 39 | He laughed and kissed her again , and somehow it was another hour before the last of the doughnuts and her third cup of tea were consumed and he decreed that the colour had returned to her cheeks and they could leave . |
| 40 | Granny picked up the last of the things they had cleared out of the cupboards and looked at it . |
| 41 | As the last of the boys arrived I thought that maybe I could just make my way to the back of the queue , or sprint back to the changing room on one pretext or another and conveniently lose my place in the line . |
| 42 | As the last of the militiamen were swallowed up by the forest a great roar of delight rose from the gipsies and they crowded around Noah to congratulate him on the unexpected victory he had scored over the Burford magistrate . |
| 43 | After morning service , when the last of the footsteps , and voices exchanging greetings , had died away , she heard the vicar ride off , the clip-clop of the horse 's hooves as clear as a bell on the cold air . |
| 44 | WELL THERE GOES THE LAST OF THE MEALS ON WHEELS . |
| 45 | In France itself the Valois family had good dynastic reasons for wishing to see Isabella removed from France and embroiled in English domestic politics : Charles IV was the last of the Capetians in the direct male line , and the question of Isabella 's title to the throne , or her right to pass the title to her son , might soon arise . |
| 46 | This , the last of the questions on the timing of courses , was the easiest to resolve . |
| 47 | Thomas unlocked it with the larger of his two keys , and taking from its sconce the last of the torches that burned along the passage , led the way through to a narrow spiral stairway , and began to descend without hesitation into the depths . |
| 48 | The North Shields fishing industry , life in which is interestingly and sympathetically described in Beter Mortimore 's ( 1987 ) The Last of The Hunters , is now pretty much what it was in the mid-nineteenth century . |
| 49 | The last of the bedsheets , ripped into ribbons , had been torn away but he believed that they were well north of the Makaa . |
| 50 | The Last of the Mohicans had been his favourite book at the time ; he had insisted on being Hawkeye and Tim Skerritt on being the treacherous Indian , Magua . |
| 51 | Michael Mann 's The Last Of The Mohicans , an adaptation of the classic James Fenimore Cooper tale starring Daniel Day Lewis and American Indian Movement ( AIM ) leader Rusell Means , looks the best bet to subvert old frontier stereotypes . |
| 52 | ‘ The Last of the Mohicans . ’ |
| 53 | There is no way anyone should see Michael Mann 's splendid panoramic epic The Last Of The Mohicans , based very loosely on James Fenimore Cooper 's classic novel , on anything but the best wide screen and in full Dolby sound . |
| 54 | Only Chingachook , the last of the Mohicans ( Russell Means ) , his natural son Uncas ( Eric Schweig ) and his adopted son Hawkeye , ( Day-Lewis ) remain resolutely unpartisan . |
| 55 | Cinema-goers in the North East gave THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS a warm reception . |
| 56 | The Last Of The Mohicans has romance and Lewis ' bare torso for the girls and action and Stowe 's wind-blown hair for the boys , history and literature for the high-brows and yards of bloody violence for the yobs . |
| 57 | These claims may be inflated for Crockett and Tubbs , but they do suggest strengths in Mann 's latest project , The Last Of The Mohicans , an American adventure story set in the 18th Century , written in the 19th and now given an energy forgotten by all but a few '90s action directors . |
| 58 | I have suggested that we use Maa with subtitles ( I am thinking of Dances With Wolves and The Last of the Mohicans ) . |
| 59 | One might say the same about portrayals of American disc jockeys , leukaemia victims , Martians , cowboys , millionaires or the Last of the Mohicans . |
| 60 | Pete , who honed his career up at Hope Street in productions like John McGrath 's The Bofers Gun , now finds himself in the thick of more flak in the new movie , The Last of the Mohicans , which opened last night . |