Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] [verb] the last " in BNC.

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1 ‘ If we had gone out over two legs to Leeds and failed to reach the last eight of the European Cup , Rangers would have been branded failures .
2 Dana was opinionated and liked to have the last word in an argument .
3 Janet added : ‘ My husband had a wicked sense of humour and had to have the last laugh in life and death .
4 Tammuz Malamute had stepped off the shuttle port outside Arcady and had delivered the last fateful message to his a.i .
5 I do remember we 'd already put his full name on the car and had to remove the last part of it . ’
6 But anyone who could understand English and had watched the last Liberal broadcast , an exercise in pure Paddiography , would know perfectly well how she could say that .
7 We reached the yard and stood watching the last preparations as usual .
8 Within the last few years a small piece of wall has been restored and recapped to preserve the last few remains .
9 A substitute had been required , therefore , in haste — and Daniel , who had never reached France or Italy after all but had spent the last two years at the London office of the Chartist Northern Star , had seemed as good a choice as any .
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