Example sentences of "it [prep] a last [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Curtis , fully aware that this was the last night of the Prophet 's current crusade , had anticipated that he might choose it for a last hunting expedition , before retreating to his lair upstate . |
| 2 | Perhaps they saw it as a last call for help to come to a failing Britain . |
| 3 | I take it as a last question , comment . |
| 4 | ‘ I only use it as a last resort , when the dog is impeding my progress . |
| 5 | Tom Poole suggested it as a last resort , and Coleridge , who remembered the cottage , immediately asked him to take it for a year . |
| 6 | Certain spiders also use it as a last resort . |
| 7 | ‘ But now I only use it as a last resort . ’ |
| 8 | Gain-up does tend to make the picture look rather grainy , though , so it is best to look on it as a last resort and reserve it for those times when a grainy picture is better than no picture at all . |