Example sentences of "was [v-ing] [prep] the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | Harry Holmes senior was competing for the last time , having raced thirty-seven times between 1933 and 1969 . |
| 2 | Cos one of the things that I said , you know , just when I was looking through the last five or six months is that it did seem er , to be inconsistent in terms of certain areas like the first floor , there 's an awful lot of reporting going on but , there was very little from the other , from the other areas . |
| 3 | Along with Graham Nearn of Caterham and Chris Smith of Westfield , Marsh — Marcos founder and mainstay of the UK 's cottage industry of component car makers — was exhibiting at the last motor show , where anyone could legitimately call him a ‘ kit car ’ maker . |
| 4 | So everything was riding on the last day … |
| 5 | Burun estimated that the party of riders beneath it was coming through the last of the little valleys which led out onto the plain . |
| 6 | KF 's core business , however , has always been retailing , although its rank in the market was slipping in the last ten years . |
| 7 | Then the dome was echoing with the last anthem : she was walking out into the September sunshine on João 's arm ; the crowds were cheering in the streets , gasping at the splendour of her dress and showering her with flowers and petals . |
| 8 | Norman Pinder was creeping through the last few yards of shrubbery before he would reach the window of the small seminar room . |
| 9 | Mrs Fletcher was bending over the last of a bed of weeds , hoping finally to rid herself of them before her husband returned from the potato harvesting . |
| 10 | The lengthy obituaries which he earned in the British press deserve to completed now by the publication as soon as possible of his memoirs , on which he was working to the last . |
| 11 | Both John Lehmann 's books and Ealing Studios ' film posters point up the fact that Minton was working in the last great era of illustration , before graphic means were ousted by photographic . |