Example sentences of "was [verb] the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was four days ( during which he was given the last rites ) before his doctors gave him a chance to live through . |
| 2 | He was eating the last of the pie with gusto . |
| 3 | I I found it when I was driving the last time . |
| 4 | She was re-reading the last line of the message which had n't sunk in till now . |
| 5 | She knew he was remembering the last time they had drunk Martinis together and what she had said to him then . |
| 6 | Dexter was pulling the last layer of bandages away , using the scissors to snip off any loose pieces , exposing the face beneath . |
| 7 | She was sipping the last of her coffee , however , when it suddenly came to her just how much Ven had been in her thoughts since she had awakened , also how very much she wanted to see him again ! |
| 8 | The trouble is , I ca n't for the life of me remember what I was wearing the last time I went to see Angy , or on the day she died . |
| 9 | But he was n't too keen on the idea of Donald arriving just as Elinor was wiping the last traces of chicken thallium off her lips . |
| 10 | Eichmann 's challenge in Budapest was to liquidate the last substantial urban Jewish community in Nazi-dominated Europe , some 230,000 trapped people . |
| 11 | For sinners , the death-bed was the stage on which was played the last act of the impending tragedy . |
| 12 | It was as she was approaching the last crest before the house came into sight that she suddenly had to stamp on the brakes as a Land Rover came pitching round the hillside . |
| 13 | James Halden returned just as she was finishing the last frill , and she jumped up as soon as she heard his steps on the stair . |
| 14 | It was late in the day and she was taking the last of the sun . |
| 15 | The sun was squeezing the last moisture out of the deserted landscape . |
| 16 | Phil was putting the last bow on the church gates when he fell on to the 6ft railings . |
| 17 | For some reason , she was finding the last few pages difficult to sort out . |
| 18 | Another of Gran 's memories was witnessing the last public hanging in Salisbury when she was twelve . |
| 19 | Now he was placing the last , low down on her wrist . |
| 20 | Nottingham Forest v Norwich Norwich 's manager Dave Stringer was playing the last time his team won at Forest — in 1974 . |
| 21 | And while she was having a whisky and eating a piece of cake at eleven o'clock , in a hapless impulse to demonstrate and somehow fix her freebooting mood — though she saw the irrationality of it on a day that had begun with a clear insight that at least she would try to equal his thinness even if she could never hope to achieve the frugality of his expectations — just as she was leaving the last part of the cake , she would think of a better way to write the note . |
| 22 | I was digging the last row next to the gravel path when my father returned . |
| 23 | The saint was to throw the last and feared lest the rock should dislodge the pile . |
| 24 | The loco is 45106 which was to become the last of its type to remain in service . |