Example sentences of "they [be] [verb] the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | They fail to appreciate that all elderly people are constantly aware that they are approaching the last great event in their lives : their own death . |
| 2 | DO N'T scoff at Skodas , they 're having the last laugh . |
| 3 | No , well , he , you know , just at the end when they 're giving the last news just before nine o'clock |
| 4 | They were passing the last of the houses now . |
| 5 | Men , I know , talk of such things with eagerness , with a little contempt ; it is as if they were describing the last meal they had , course by course . |
| 6 | They were saying the last time I heard them saying anything he was sort of going |