Example sentences of "[vb past] [art] last [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1922 Parma became the last city in Italy to give in to Mussolini , and then only after violent fighting Oltre Torrente . |
| 2 | ‘ We got the last ring in the shop in my size , ’ said Mrs Williams , who also has fond memories of their wartime honeymoon in Scarborough . |
| 3 | Chairman , he wo n't have to , it 's like this , he wo n't have to worry as they did when the televisions which caused the last fire in the House of Commons , I mean , set fire to them and er , caused that one . |
| 4 | Half way down he heard a commotion below and quickened his heavy step in time to see , as he turned the last bend in the staircase , a slight figure slip out through the iron gate at the main entrance . |
| 5 | There was no water , though , for an artificial Thames ; and the whole relic , presently used as a backdrop for the film of A Passage to India , is patrolled by a pensioner who served the last war in South Shields . |
| 6 | And then my erm my mother saw him and then I went to see him and Then I started the last week in July with him after the school closed . |
| 7 | Kitty spoke of a new lair , a vixen biting the ear of a cub , an owl on a rat , the sound of a wolf although everyone knew the last wolf in England had been killed some years before about forty miles to the south , near the Bay . |
| 8 | I now knew the last thing in the whole world I wanted was to go into the mountains again with FAKINTIL . |
| 9 | More generally , almost in a caricature of Dicey 's views , a belief grew during the early decades of the twentieth century that , because of the destruction in the balances in parliamentary mechanisms wrought by the rise of party government , the courts formed the last bastion in the protection of liberties immanent in constitutional arrangements . |
| 10 | After a buffet rijstafel of gargantuan proportions-thirty dishes concluded with a chewy sweet much beloved of the malais which resembled nothing so much as toenail pie — the Colonel served Tia Maria which he and his wife thought the last word in cosmopolitan sophistication . |
| 11 | Lucille took a last look in the mirror , decided there was nothing that could be done to make herself any more elegant or beautiful , and so picked up her small bag that contained the precious pasteboard ticket . |
| 12 | There might be a possible history in which the Labour party won the last election in Britain , though maybe the probability is low . |
| 13 | Though Huw Davies had the last word in that game , Gallagher 's work at the back of the line-out was missed . |
| 14 | ROBIN Smith , Hampshire 's defiant middle-order maestro , yesterday had the last word in his summer-long bitter duel with Waqar Younis . |
| 15 | Pool had the last laugh in the FA Cup a few weeks later . |
| 16 | However , had the last element in p been other than 4 , the three pairs of equations would have given three different answers . |