Example sentences of "been the last [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sister Murphy had been the last nurse to be with Sister Edith Cavell , and King George V had honoured her by making her the first to receive a medal for bravery at one of his levees . |
| 2 | If the figure on the cross had been the last sight of him , we would have heard nothing more of him and there would have been no Church . |
| 3 | The tower must have been the last sight of land for hundreds of drowning mariners in peace and war . |
| 4 | In what might conceivably have been the last chance of a diplomatic settlement , with the encouraging or surreal touches of a personally popular Ho walking up the Champs Elysees to lay a wreath on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and standing beside Bidault on the Fourteenth of July , these were the fundamental issues . |
| 5 | He had taken some comfort from the fact that he had been the last man to board the cage , so at least he could watch Yorky and the others exit , before his turn came . |
| 6 | Torry Gillick , in 1938 against Hungary , had been the last man to score for his country on Rangers ' pitch . |
| 7 | Erm it must have been the last day , it must have been Friday , must have been Friday . |
| 8 | Balanchine would have been the last person to break or contradict the thematic content and destroy the composer 's intentions . |
| 9 | He should have been the last person to be killed . |
| 10 | As far as everyone knew , he had been the last person to see Zambia at the Club . |
| 11 | She would have been the last person in the world to interfere with that . |
| 12 | She wondered whether to ask Mrs Baggley if she realised that she might have been the last person to see or hear of Paul Gray alive . |
| 13 | A possible explanation is that this jacket may well have been the last issue made to C/Sgt Nicholl in the last year or so of his service , and , as will be seen , may have been scarcely worn . |
| 14 | This is said to have been the last contact between the Judaeo-Christian Nazareans and the coalescing orthodoxy based on Pauline thought . |
| 15 | Miss Gracie had been the last governess , a pale sad woman who had lived for the brief holidays she could get away to spend with a beloved brother and his family in Stirling . |
| 16 | A spitting , scratching , panic-stricken wild feline would have been the last kind of boat-companion they would have wanted . |
| 17 | I think that 'll been the last helicopter . |
| 18 | Dot woke on that morning that could have been the last morning of her life and knew by the brightness reflected across the ceiling that she was safe , for the roads would still be blocked . |
| 19 | It must have been the last straw to a tired Lancaster crew to have home in sight , and then to be attacked by a fighter . |
| 20 | To be led through the streets of St Petrick 's by a policeman would have been the last straw ! |
| 21 | He agreed missing his son 's engagement had been the last straw . |
| 22 | The fight , in which one Sardinian had slit another 's throat from ear to ear without succeeding in killing him , had been the last straw and had resulted in an unprecedented outburst of anti-Sardinian feeling that involved not just the affected area but the whole city . |
| 23 | Last night had been the last straw . |
| 24 | Anthony 's death had been the last straw . |
| 25 | And to slip in the mud must have been the last straw . |
| 26 | That had n't been The Last Straw ; far from it . |
| 27 | The doctor was n't the only security failure in West German intelligence , but he had been the last straw for Sims . |
| 28 | The daughter told her mother and , said Mr Stevenson , that appeared to have been the last straw for her . |
| 29 | After the shock of Valesio 's murder and his almost sleepless night , lunch with Luciano Bartocci had really been the last straw . |
| 30 | Never been away , it 's been the last month |