Example sentences of "to [be] [pron] last [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Marian grudgingly watched it disappear , it seemed to be their last link with the village , from now on the forest must feed them . |
| 2 | With the championship having been decided , this was likely to be their last chance to settle old scores . |
| 3 | The crew were in high spirits as they passed over the channel as this was to be their last mission before leave , away from the stress of bombing well protected targets over Germany . |
| 4 | And if this were to be their last meeting , then should they perhaps not waste it all in talk ? |
| 5 | Zola Budd , in what was to be her last season , was to resume rivalry with Ingrid Kristiansen and Maricica Puica . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's gon na have to be our last ride , is n't it , Sambo ? |
| 7 | Berkeley did after all turn out to be my last dalliance with the education system . |
| 8 | I , MARIUS LADISLAS STENIATOWSKI , commonly known as MARIUS STEEN , and hereinafter referred to as such , of 173 , Orme Gardens , London , W2 and ‘ Rivalon ’ , Streatley-on-Thames in the County of Berkshire , Theatrical Impresario , HEREBY REVOKE all wills and testamentary documents heretofore made by me AND DECLARE this to be my LAST WILL 1 . |
| 9 | I think The Tempest is going to be my last play . |
| 10 | This visit was to be my last tribute to the Ascendancy . |
| 11 | So this will have to be my last letter rill then … . |
| 12 | Well , crazy , I suppose I 'm crazy , I 've always thought runners were crazy , I 've always , you know , said friends and colleagues that used to run were mad , it only started off to get fit for skiing , and well , I hit , you know , I 've got the bug , and er well it 's going to be my first marathon and it 's definitely going to be my last marathon . |
| 13 | I expect next week to be your last chance to register before the shut-off date . |
| 14 | ‘ You ate that as if it was to be your last meal on earth . ’ |
| 15 | It 's likely to be his last film made purely on a research budget . |
| 16 | I envisage and this is what I believe to be his last film Not a Hope in Hell early in 1960 . |
| 17 | There seemed little left in the match except the question of whether Wright would get the 36 runs he needed for 5000 in Tests , in what was rumoured to be his last appearance . |
| 18 | Hope then made what was to be his last appeal to the House of Commons for a Gothic Foreign Office , as he was to be out of Parliament from May 1859 until 1865 , when the present building was being built . |
| 19 | It is a tour de force ; for the sculptor , who died shortly after its erection , it was to be his last monument . |
| 20 | David Hookes , in what could prove to be his last match at Sydney after 17 years , registered his highest score on the ground , 87 , for South Australia against NSW . |
| 21 | When he carne back from what was to be his last visit to the city of his youth his high temperature had worsened and he was advised to rest by the club doctor . |
| 22 | It is significant that what appears to be his last autograph , written in a shaky hand in a young girl 's album , is the final passage of the Immortality Ode , which teaches us to live by ‘ the human heart ’ . |
| 23 | Only 44 , and with 16 years to go before the official NatWest retiring age , this is , he agrees , unlikely to be his last job . |