Example sentences of "[vb past] be the last [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The clue to what he meant is the last sentence from Lewis : ‘ The lines and masses of a statue are its soul ’ . |
| 2 | What Dickens liked was the last thing he wished to have lying in , or rather on , his stomach . |
| 3 | Miss Gracie had been the last governess , a pale sad woman who had lived for the brief holidays she could get away to spend with a beloved brother and his family in Stirling . |
| 4 | Sister Murphy had been the last nurse to be with Sister Edith Cavell , and King George V had honoured her by making her the first to receive a medal for bravery at one of his levees . |
| 5 | As far as everyone knew , he had been the last person to see Zambia at the Club . |
| 6 | He had taken some comfort from the fact that he had been the last man to board the cage , so at least he could watch Yorky and the others exit , before his turn came . |
| 7 | Torry Gillick , in 1938 against Hungary , had been the last man to score for his country on Rangers ' pitch . |
| 8 | From 1904 it had been the last Romanov 's main home . |
| 9 | If the figure on the cross had been the last sight of him , we would have heard nothing more of him and there would have been no Church . |
| 10 | These had been the last words that had passed between them . |
| 11 | He agreed missing his son 's engagement had been the last straw . |
| 12 | The fight , in which one Sardinian had slit another 's throat from ear to ear without succeeding in killing him , had been the last straw and had resulted in an unprecedented outburst of anti-Sardinian feeling that involved not just the affected area but the whole city . |
| 13 | Last night had been the last straw . |
| 14 | Anthony 's death had been the last straw . |
| 15 | The doctor was n't the only security failure in West German intelligence , but he had been the last straw for Sims . |
| 16 | Searching the flat had been the last thing on his mind , but Bodie said , ‘ Malone 's boys are on it now . ’ |
| 17 | I did n't know what had been the last meal eaten before leaving South America but it took me twenty minutes to coathanger my way through it , and consequently I had missed breakfast . |
| 18 | Crawford had been the last actor to audition for the role of Buddy . |
| 19 | No more than that , for we were all on renewable annual contracts and Clive never tired of reminding us just how many eager applicants there had been the last time he 'd had to ‘ let someone go ’ . |