Example sentences of "they were [prep] [art] last " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Sawyer and Darton wrote so tellingly in English Books : ‘ The Running Stationers , as they were at the last called , bore a light but precious fardel : just the Short History of the English People — no more . ‘ |
| 2 | By the time they started ‘ I Guess it Does n't Matter Anymore ’ they were onto the last saucepan and the table was covered with clean , dry things . |
| 3 | Few people are offended today , as they were in the last century , by the thought of man and the chimpanzee being classified together by virtue of a common ancestor which has been extinct for probably more than three million years ! |
| 4 | Women are not debarred from any legal statuses which are held by men , as they were in the last century . |
| 5 | Can the Prime Minister really take any comfort from the fact that , bad as today 's figures are , they are slightly less bad than they were in the last Tory slump ? |
| 6 | Two of the survivors assured me they were among the last girls to be admitted to the trade . |