Example sentences of "it [was/were] the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | The exchanges were exceptionally unfruitful because of Mr Berge 's way of delivering every reply as if it were the last word any resonable man would wish to hear on that particular matter . |
| 2 | It was the last days of the old tradition , I suppose and I 'm glad I was lucky enough to be part of them . |
| 3 | Gavin Laird , the general secretary of the Amalgamated Engineering Union , said that it was the last ‘ burning issue ’ Labour needed to resolve before the next election . |
| 4 | ‘ I would n't say it was the last ditch for the capercaillie . |
| 5 | It was the last Labour government which spent more on defence than the NHS . |
| 6 | Even if it was the last thing she was ever able to do , Phoebe would have known it , and would have to notice her now . |
| 7 | ‘ It was the last thing she talked about . ’ |
| 8 | It was the last of several stops on the way down from Dún Laoghaire . |
| 9 | In the first three months of 1990 , the guess is that they were again about 13% lower than in the first quarter of 1989 , but there are now hopes that it was the last drop for a while . |
| 10 | For some reason that Jinny did not quite understand , it was the last straw . |
| 11 | It was the last time I saw him alive . |
| 12 | I always left the dollop of jam in the middle of my mother 's puddings until it was the last mouthful . |
| 13 | But , as it turned out , it was the last instance of a complete Blitzkrieg triumph accompanied by the minimal losses which were once more a central element in the popular response to the Balkan success . |
| 14 | It was the last temporary lifting of morale in the final phases of the war . |
| 15 | Earl reluctantly asked North to bring Coy ‘ into the box ’ , and it was the last one he was brought into . |
| 16 | Even Shirley Christian 's relatively cosy interview with North for the New York Times on December 1st — an interview that gained in suspiciousness and oddity because it was the last North gave for two years — plunged suddenly into an action-man world . |
| 17 | It was the last statement of faith in the church by this most enigmatic and perplexing of kings . |
| 18 | Ironically , it was the last great European conflict in which religion played a dominant role . |
| 19 | Secretly Sam vowed that he would find it again if it was the last thing he did . |
| 20 | It was the last verse of the song . |
| 21 | It was the last one . |
| 22 | The aluminium sulphate was added to the ‘ contact tank ’ , a bad place because it was the last stage in the treatment process before the water left for the town . |
| 23 | It was the last time Endill would believe anything a teacher told him . |
| 24 | It was the last day of local working between Nottingham and Sheffield and therefore the Chesterfield Loop . |
| 25 | ‘ It was the last ship from which the passengers were permitted to stay legally in Palestine . |
| 26 | He was ‘ a great Labour man ’ , a non-smoker and non-drinker , an elder of the kirk until the minister mistakenly , suggested he had a hangover — ‘ and it was the last time my grandfather was ever inside a church . |
| 27 | It was the last great age of travel — by ship and by train — before the joys and mysteries and individualism of travel were overtaken by the bland , pre-packaged age of tourism when daily long-distance flights , with their second-rate movies , plastic food , and attendant jet lag , replaced for ever the slow boat to China and the stopping train to Samarkand . |
| 28 | It was the last age when the railway station was an essential ingredient of every traveller 's itinerary : point of departure , point of arrival , point of contact en route with everyday life as it teemed and flowed outside the protective cocoon of the train . |
| 29 | It was the last block in the street and the side wall was supported by a network of wooden scaffolding that stretched all the way up to the fifth floor . |
| 30 | It was the last word to come out of St Pierre . |