Example sentences of "be the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | While I am the last to recommend such surgery unnecessarily , there 's no doubt that in Sombro 's case it would be for his own good . |
| 2 | All I know is I am the last . ’ |
| 3 | I am the last one to leave . |
| 4 | I think I am the last British poop artist because the total effort of all groups now in 1990 is to be as international as possible … but I 'm not a part of it . |
| 5 | I am the last night of August , late . |
| 6 | I am half hidden in my bower , I am the last thing she sees , so I have time to examine her . |
| 7 | Now , I am the last man on Earth to cry , CONSPIRACY ! |
| 8 | ‘ I am the last person in the world who would want to inhibit the movement of the SMMB to its new form , ’ Mr Lang said , ‘ but there is little I or Michael Heseltine can do to influence the OFT . |
| 9 | Balanchine would have been the last person to break or contradict the thematic content and destroy the composer 's intentions . |
| 10 | He should have been the last person to be killed . |
| 11 | It must have been the last one left in London . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | As far as everyone knew , he had been the last person to see Zambia at the Club . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | A spitting , scratching , panic-stricken wild feline would have been the last kind of boat-companion they would have wanted . |
| 20 | This was not the first time and , if he had survived , certainly would not have been the last . |
| 21 | 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 ’ . |
| 22 | To be led through the streets of St Petrick 's by a policeman would have been the last straw ! |
| 23 | The tower must have been the last sight of land for hundreds of drowning mariners in peace and war . |
| 24 | He agreed missing his son 's engagement had been the last straw . |
| 25 | Too often in the past , when changes have been made , managers have been the last to know . |
| 26 | John had been the last of his generation . |
| 27 | Searching the flat had been the last thing on his mind , but Bodie said , ‘ Malone 's boys are on it now . ’ |
| 28 | Matchsticks would have been the last one at the Pessarane Behesht camp he would have chosen to accompany him on this mission . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |