Example sentences of "been the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | Balanchine would have been the last person to break or contradict the thematic content and destroy the composer 's intentions . |
| 2 | He should have been the last person to be killed . |
| 3 | It must have been the last one left in London . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | As far as everyone knew , he had been the last person to see Zambia at the Club . |
| 7 | This seems to have been the last of Hope 's involvement in actual building , and with the founding of the Saturday , he turned to journalism , although in 1865 the Institute of British Architects elected him as their President . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | A spitting , scratching , panic-stricken wild feline would have been the last kind of boat-companion they would have wanted . |
| 12 | This was not the first time and , if he had survived , certainly would not have been the last . |
| 13 | No more than that , for we were all on renewable annual contracts and Clive never tired of reminding us just how many eager applicants there had been the last time he 'd had to ‘ let someone go ’ . |
| 14 | To be led through the streets of St Petrick 's by a policeman would have been the last straw ! |
| 15 | The tower must have been the last sight of land for hundreds of drowning mariners in peace and war . |
| 16 | He agreed missing his son 's engagement had been the last straw . |
| 17 | Too often in the past , when changes have been made , managers have been the last to know . |
| 18 | John had been the last of his generation . |
| 19 | Searching the flat had been the last thing on his mind , but Bodie said , ‘ Malone 's boys are on it now . ’ |
| 20 | Matchsticks would have been the last one at the Pessarane Behesht camp he would have chosen to accompany him on this mission . |
| 21 | Bert Röling , the Dutch international lawyer who died in early 1985 , having been the last surviving judge from the International Military Tribunal for the Far East at Tokyo , addressed the nuclear weapons issue as much in terms of purported prudential policy-making as in terms of legal principle . |
| 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 | ‘ Must have been the last time I saw him . |
| 24 | The immediate post-war years had been the last classic period of the film as social sermon and one can almost sense the relief as the studios discovered that social context did not need quite as much emphasis . |
| 25 | From 1904 it had been the last Romanov 's main home . |
| 26 | Last night had been the last straw . |
| 27 | Anthony 's death had been the last straw . |
| 28 | The shows on that 1987 reunion tour are among the best we 've done and I remember a cracking night in the Olympia which would have been the last time we visited Dublin . |
| 29 | This is said to have been the last contact between the Judaeo-Christian Nazareans and the coalescing orthodoxy based on Pauline thought . |
| 30 | 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 . |