Example sentences of "was [prep] last [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were no trouble to our mother , who was at last recovering from the dreadful ‘ flu ’ that killed more folk than the 1914 – 18 war itself . |
| 2 | She waited until the car vanished round the bend then waited some more until the whine of the engine was at last lost in the distance , then she slowly made her way into the house . |
| 3 | He was cooking ; murder was , for the moment at any rate , not in his thoughts , the sun was at last shining in the way it should do on a seaside holiday , and there were still three more days of holiday to go . |
| 4 | Peace was at last enforced on the Border . |
| 5 | In the event , however , it was not for several years — not until well after the composer 's death — that the missing portion of the overture was at last copied into the score . |