Example sentences of "last [noun sg] was [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only , the last laugh was on the dealer the client 's sense of humour subsiding into resentment . |
| 2 | Sweden 's GNP fell by 0.5% in 1990 ; the last fall was in the year to the first quarter of 1987 . |
| 3 | Scaffolder Watson 's last job was on the Channel Tunnel . |
| 4 | The £190,000 contract signed by Jim Grant last month was for the installation of a pilot GOMIS system at Desnogorsk . |
| 5 | Our last recording was with the cellist António Meneses , which I admired very much because of the great beauty of line Meneses was able to bring to the epilogue . |
| 6 | Time and again in England and Wales , the company that bought the bus undertaking in the first instance proved to be only a halfway house to resales , mergers and splits , and all the time the very last consideration was for the interests of the travelling public . |
| 7 | His last expedition was to the volcanoes of Indonesia and the Philippines . |
| 8 | The last time was during the War , while he was living in London . |