Example sentences of "[art] last [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hoare was born in Southampton , and received education at no fewer than three Catholic establishments , leaving the last with an arts degree and red spiky hair . |
| 2 | Gorias was the last of the Cities to fall , and even mortals remember it . |
| 3 | It was more than an hour since the last of the horsecarts had clattered through Cotton Lane and now the fog was thickening . |
| 4 | On the day that the last of the articles appeared , the Zionist Federation staged a demonstration outside the London offices of The Times , some of their supporters holding placards which announced that the paper was ‘ a new Arab secret weapon ’ and that the PLO would be the next owner of The Times . |
| 5 | The last of the boxes were being transferred from the back of the truck now , carried by men who sweated under the effort despite the chill wind that had come with the onset of the night . |
| 6 | Erm as I say he was a he was brilliant man er I mean we all we I 'm about one of the last of the ones that were taught under him . |
| 7 | Behind him , behind the last of the houses , the ancient terraces , which his forebears have shaped and which now shape this community , rise up steeply to the rock escarpment dominating this side of the island . |
| 8 | We had passed the last of the houses and were driving in grey early-morning light through a landscape of scorched earth , blackened trees . |
| 9 | Wayne was driving now as they left the last of the houses behind , following the lake shore for a while until the wooded hillside of the Step rose up and screened it from their sight . |
| 10 | They were passing the last of the houses now . |
| 11 | Already weak and exposed where Midnight was concerned , this unexpected consideration broke down the last of the barriers Jess had constructed against the old woman . |
| 12 | He was the last of the Americans loyal to the city when New York was assuming its predominant role in the contemporary art world . |
| 13 | The Court of Appeal , on his appeal against his conviction for theft upon one count covering all three consignments , on the ground that the count was bad for duplicity in that there were three separate appropriations , held that there had been no appropriation until the last of the goods were loaded , or probably until the defendant deviated from the route to the proper destination . |
| 14 | Sadly , that was not even the last of the clubs to deny me membership . |
| 15 | The last of the cuirassiers were driven from the village just as darkness fell , leaving a thousand corpses and a heap of rubble to the French as the fruits of victory . |
| 16 | I get out I get out of bed at eight o' clock when the last of the lodgers has gone well the last of the two lodgers |
| 17 | Corbett stopped his horse to watch some labourers in the fields below working to bring in the last of the crops . |
| 18 | It had taken her four years to get over him ; four years to get to the point where she could tell herself with some conviction that she had shaken off the last of the memories and was really ready to get on with her life . |
| 19 | out on the roads the last of the runners are walking home … |
| 20 | It seemed a long way away but before we knew it we were paying the last of the deposits . |
| 21 | As the last of the lorries went in , the trouble started . |
| 22 | The last of the daffodils along the walk to the chapel died back and were hidden in new grass . |
| 23 | Now we come to probably the last of the Bishops to use Halling Palace . |
| 24 | Here , have the last of the eggs . |
| 25 | It began very early in September and has really come to an end today with the last of the leaves falling overnight and the first serious snow on the mountains . |
| 26 | Should one see him as the last of the Pre-Raphaelites ? |
| 27 | The police do n't think we 've heard the last of the attackers who seem prepared to endanger many lives in an attempt to reach their targets . |
| 28 | The last of the mercenaries were running , flinging away their weapons as they went . |
| 29 | It was during this period that savage Turkish reprisals against Balkan nationalist movements gave the last of the sultans an unsavoury reputation for religious persecution which has coloured the writings of some western historians in their assessment of the whole record of the Ottoman empire . |
| 30 | The unsavoury reputation which the last of the sultans acquired during the late nineteenth century — especially Abdülaziz ( 1861–76 ) and Abdülhamid II ( 1876–1909 ) — has coloured the view which many western historians have taken of the Ottoman empire as a whole , but to many Christian subjects the Ottoman empire in its heyday was far from the horrific picture conjured up by the use of the phrase ‘ the long Turkish night ’ . |