Example sentences of "could [verb] the last [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alborne seemed content to sit on their eight-goal lead but , when four Whaddon players left the pitch with ten minutes to go so they could catch the last bus , it was too good an opportunity to miss , and Alborne finally ran out winners by eleven goals to nil . |
| 2 | Meanwhile she had many friends who took up her cause : memorial concerts were given in Prague and Vienna ; she received a gratuity from the Elector of Cologne ; and the King of Prussia offered to purchase several compositions for 100 ducats each ( including the Requiem which Constanze made sure was ‘ completed ’ by Süssmayr so that she could collect the last instalment of money due from Count Walsegg ) . |
| 3 | No one could remember the last time anyone had stayed there , or , indeed , if anyone ever had . |
| 4 | Above the nervous chatter that continued once the corporal had left , Charlie could hear the last post being played on a bugle from the castle battlements . |
| 5 | Instead , he gambled on finding someone who could play the last card in the British deck — independence — and then , with nothing further to offer , keep sufficient control of the situation to extricate Britain from India with honour and possibly with glory . |
| 6 | Gran could recall the last outbreak of cholera which hit Salisbury in 1849 , it was especially severe in her own parish of Saint Edmund and many people in the city died as a result . |
| 7 | In 1921 , The Waste Land clearly on his mind , Eliot complained that the anti-Georgian poets were ‘ mostly such as could imagine the Last Judgment only as a lavish display of Bengal lights , Roman candles , catherine-wheels , and inflammable fire-balloons . |