Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] [be] the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ My father 's being released and I 'm the last to know ! |
| 2 | ‘ We made it , and Chapman and I were the last on to the train . |
| 3 | ‘ And I was the last man off of 17,000 because I was still in the bus when they all went to the start . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I expect it is , but it 's the truth , and you 're the last person to condemn me for telling the truth , even though it may offend you to hear it . ’ |
| 5 | And you were the last person to see her . |
| 6 | And she 's the last of the family . |
| 7 | And we are the last people on God 's earth , then we 'd be carrying it . |
| 8 | ‘ Say you 're a tailor , ’ whispered Avram , and they were the last words any member of his family was ever able to speak to him . |
| 9 | ‘ The Duchess bred him , and he is the last one with three spots of Arkle 's blood in his veins . ’ |
| 10 | Without him , we would n't have won promotion when we did , and he was the last player I wanted to lose . |
| 11 | And he was the last person Carver needed just now . |
| 12 | He thought she was Garry 's lover , and he was the last man to want another man 's discarded lover . |
| 13 | He was a self-opinionated , overbearing tyrant , and he was the last man she should want to tangle with . |
| 14 | And he was the last cooper . |
| 15 | ‘ I 've had a shoulder injury for the last three or four games and it 's the last thing you need when you are struggling to score your first goal . |
| 16 | You take the train from the middle of Liverpool , and it 's the last station , . |
| 17 | ‘ And it 's the last you 're going to get . |
| 18 | ‘ We are her close friends and it is the last thing we would do . |
| 19 | Classical theory , as applied in Butler Machine Tool Co Ltd v Ex-Cell-O Corpn ( England ) Ltd [ 1979 ] 1 WLR 401 , would suggest a mirror image rule , namely , each proffering of standard terms is a counter-offer , and it is the last document proffered which embodies the final offer when the recipient accepts by acting upon it . |
| 20 | Earl reluctantly asked North to bring Coy ‘ into the box ’ , and it was the last one he was brought into . |
| 21 | He was ‘ a great Labour man ’ , a non-smoker and non-drinker , an elder of the kirk until the minister mistakenly , suggested he had a hangover — ‘ and it was the last time my grandfather was ever inside a church . |
| 22 | I responded with a patient and well-informed explanation of how and why the SDP had no such plans and it was the last thing Mrs Williams would do . |
| 23 | It was the first time she had left little Bradley , the first time she had been out to celebrate his birth — and it was the last time he would ever see his mother again . |
| 24 | And it was the last sort of confession I 'd ever have expected from Oliver . |
| 25 | ‘ And it was the last real job he ever had , ’ said Auntie Ethel . |
| 26 | That was where he was herding them , and it was the last place she felt like going , especially now . |
| 27 | the last week in September and it was the last week it was open , so you 're better of going near the middle or I mean the beginning or |
| 28 | ‘ Yow tell yer Dad everythink but I 'm the last to be told . ’ |
| 29 | Yes , thought Berdichev ; but I 'm the last person you expected to see up here today . |
| 30 | In July 1939 , a group of fifteen children from Great Engeham and Whittingham Farm School left for Palestine , but they were the last until after the war . |