Example sentences of "was the last [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But my grandfather 's grave was the last on this hill . |
| 2 | Dr Jaffery 's room was the last on the corridor . |
| 3 | I went to two , and er , my name was the last on the , the form . |
| 4 | The final yesterday was the last under the auspices of the Men 's Tennis Council , which had controlled the Grand Prix circuit since 1970 . |
| 5 | The project was the last to be approved by the Department of Energy before it disappeared . |
| 6 | This car was the last to be constructed without a sponsor , although it has since been sponsored by several firms . |
| 7 | No. 31 was the last to be broken up in July . |
| 8 | No. 34 was the last to be broken up in June . |
| 9 | In England , the north-east region was the last to be penetrated fully by the London papers , with Newcastle and Darlington remaining important newspaper cities into the 1980s . |
| 10 | The Edinburgh Conference was the last to be held under the complete trade-union domination which had been noticeable since 1932 . |
| 11 | It was the last of several stops on the way down from Dún Laoghaire . |
| 12 | Aston Mill was the last of the Carrant Brook mills to be worked , finally going out of business in the early 1960s . |
| 13 | But Hamburg was the last of the great glass train-sheds . |
| 14 | After the flight of King James II on 11 December 1688 the legal fiction was adopted that this day was the last of his reign ( thus 4 James II is 6 February 1688 to 11 December 1688 ) , and there followed an interregnum until William III and Mary II were made king and queen for their joint and several lives on 13 February 1689 . |
| 15 | He was the last of his line . |
| 16 | I wanted to dig him in the ribs and tell him that Mrs F was the last of twelve children in her family and her father 'd been a maintenance man on the railways . |
| 17 | This windmill was the last of the Dutch barn type left in England and was in use until 1930 , but had to be pulled down in 1945 as it was in danger of collapse . |
| 18 | It was the last of the big parades . |
| 19 | Parry , nicknamed Popeye because of his bulging forearms , dropped two shots in five holes and title favourite Faldo moved menacingly alongside the Australian to share the lead on level par , while Lyle was the last of the 28 starters . |
| 20 | Mildred 's room was the last of all . |
| 21 | He was the last of the non-juror bishops to die , and his acceptance that cession or death gave legitimacy to the new bishops enabled most of the non-jurors to return to communion with the Church , though the extreme minority continued in schism . |
| 22 | DERBY ROAD Motive Power Depot was the last of a series of locomotive sheds built in Southport by the various pregrouping railways . |
| 23 | It was built as a shooting lodge in the old days , and then the Hamiltons bought it , and lived there most summers , but old Mrs Hamilton , she was the last of them , died this February , so it 's empty now , and likely to stay so . ’ |
| 24 | Built by the Hunslet Engine Co Ltd Leeds in 1954 , it was the last of 32 similar locomotives that worked on banking and freight duties . |
| 25 | For many the highlight of the sale was the last of the Rubens , ‘ The Entombment ’ , formerly in the Demidoff collection and unseen since 1921 . |
| 26 | Russell Reynolds was the last of the Big Four to enter the London market — in 1972 — but has been far and away the most consistently successful . |
| 27 | Sir Austin Robinson , a close associate of Keynes , was the last of the pre-war Cambridge economists . |
| 28 | She was the last of the Roxborough line , he 'd said , unless she found a way to fertilize one of her girlfriends . |
| 29 | The Heartaches fielded three slow left-arm bowlers ( Messrs Rice , T. , Rice J. and Edmonds P.H. ) , and of course , Mr Edmonds was the last of the trio to get a bowl . |
| 30 | In France itself the Valois family had good dynastic reasons for wishing to see Isabella removed from France and embroiled in English domestic politics : Charles IV was the last of the Capetians in the direct male line , and the question of Isabella 's title to the throne , or her right to pass the title to her son , might soon arise . |