Example sentences of "be [verb] [art] last " in BNC.
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| 1 | The three are singing the last bars of a song . |
| 2 | Still , in the next few days as the news began to filter in from Niki 's hospital that Niki had been given the last rites , that he had inhaled burning fuel and damaged his lungs , that his face had been appallingly burned , the facts did begin to sink in . |
| 3 | I 've er I 've only just I 've only been coughing the last couple of days , but |
| 4 | The event , which has been one of the most successful new launches in recent years , is now in jeopardy for the coming season , although both the RYA and James Capel are seeking a last minute sponsor . |
| 5 | the first bit yeah you 're remembering the last bit when you 're remembering that you 've forgot the first bit . |
| 6 | DO N'T scoff at Skodas , they 're having the last laugh . |
| 7 | No , well , he , you know , just at the end when they 're giving the last news just before nine o'clock |
| 8 | so I 'm actually taking the first three weeks and you 're taking the last |
| 9 | A schoolboy has been recalling the last minutes of a ski-lift crash in which his step brother died . |
| 10 | aye , you see , that 's why so it meant that we have been going the last week in each month , er each second month |
| 11 | We are promised the last word in London nightclubs , BBQ , dancing , live bands , cabaret , live band karaoke , mystery entertainments and a huge amount of fun . |
| 12 | It had been worn the last time the Mendozas beat the O'Briens in the Open and on every occasion they had met since . |
| 13 | Leaving Joy to help Miss Prescott with what are called the last offices ( Joy is also a trained nurse ) , Alan and I went back to the house and between us brought the coffin down from the loft . |
| 14 | Amongst them are found the last adepts of controlled altered states , out-of-the-body experience , psycho-navigation , environmental wisdom and time-honoured alternative methods of giving birth , healing , living and dying . |
| 15 | If he knew how old she was he might want her to tell him what she had been doing the last few years . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Plans by the Spanish government to irrigate large areas of steppe plain , with the aid of EC funding , are threatening the last European stronghold of the great bustard , together with 14 other birds protected by the EC Wild Birds directive . |
| 18 | If this excluded option is allowed back into the debate , and the claim that our existing intuitions should not be given the last word is seriously considered , the authority of the case for individualism is immediately questioned . |
| 19 | and I 'm born the last day in April . |
| 20 | MALCOLM ALLISON 'S return to English football with penniless Bristol Rovers could hardly be termed a last ride on the gravy train . |
| 21 | The sitting-room , then ; he would be having a last brandy in the sitting-room … |
| 22 | Must be entering the last lap . ’ |
| 23 | R. M. Harmer , author of the Corporation section of the first edition of this book , placed himself in such a position as to be issued the last ticket ( for a 6 pence fare ) . |
| 24 | Today 's obsession with preventing another round of hostile takeovers is like the habit of generals always to be fighting the last war . |
| 25 | At this late stage , with the time before 1 January as easy to count in days as in weeks , businesses should now be obtaining the last elements of these details . |
| 26 | Then he had to remember that even after the rounds had been allocated and the stetches accounted for , he still had to include the acre or so of headland , the land on the outside of the field where the ploughs turned , which had to be ploughed the last of all . ’ |
| 27 | Reuben Boll had been taking the last part of his annual leave . |
| 28 | I have been reading the last few pages and I think they are true and beautiful and just , recompense enough for the cold gloom of this untidy and lonely room . |
| 29 | ‘ No , I 've been freelancing the last couple of years . ’ |
| 30 | It is in these past two weeks that Faldo has been putting the last pieces into place . |