Example sentences of "and [pers pn] [was/were] the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We made it , and Chapman and I were the last on to the train . |
| 2 | ‘ And I was the last man off of 17,000 because I was still in the bus when they all went to the start . ’ |
| 3 | And you were the last person to see her . |
| 4 | ‘ Say you 're a tailor , ’ whispered Avram , and they were the last words any member of his family was ever able to speak to him . |
| 5 | Without him , we would n't have won promotion when we did , and he was the last player I wanted to lose . |
| 6 | And he was the last person Carver needed just now . |
| 7 | He thought she was Garry 's lover , and he was the last man to want another man 's discarded lover . |
| 8 | He was a self-opinionated , overbearing tyrant , and he was the last man she should want to tangle with . |
| 9 | And he was the last cooper . |
| 10 | Earl reluctantly asked North to bring Coy ‘ into the box ’ , and it was the last one he was brought into . |
| 11 | He was ‘ a great Labour man ’ , a non-smoker and non-drinker , an elder of the kirk until the minister mistakenly , suggested he had a hangover — ‘ and it was the last time my grandfather was ever inside a church . |
| 12 | I responded with a patient and well-informed explanation of how and why the SDP had no such plans and it was the last thing Mrs Williams would do . |
| 13 | It was the first time she had left little Bradley , the first time she had been out to celebrate his birth — and it was the last time he would ever see his mother again . |
| 14 | And it was the last sort of confession I 'd ever have expected from Oliver . |
| 15 | ‘ And it was the last real job he ever had , ’ said Auntie Ethel . |
| 16 | That was where he was herding them , and it was the last place she felt like going , especially now . |
| 17 | the last week in September and it was the last week it was open , so you 're better of going near the middle or I mean the beginning or |