Example sentences of "[vb past] been the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | As far as everyone knew , he had been the last person to see Zambia at the Club . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ’ . |
| 6 | He agreed missing his son 's engagement had been the last straw . |
| 7 | John had been the last of his generation . |
| 8 | Searching the flat had been the last thing on his mind , but Bodie said , ‘ Malone 's boys are on it now . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | From 1904 it had been the last Romanov 's main home . |
| 12 | Last night had been the last straw . |
| 13 | Anthony 's death had been the last straw . |
| 14 | I did n't know what had been the last meal eaten before leaving South America but it took me twenty minutes to coathanger my way through it , and consequently I had missed breakfast . |
| 15 | It was the era of Len Battersby , Inspector , who had been the last Chief Preventive Officer on the revenue crew of the old Vigilant . |
| 16 | The doctor was n't the only security failure in West German intelligence , but he had been the last straw for Sims . |
| 17 | Finally , there had been the last few months , when everything had fallen apart with such shattering swiftness . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | These had been the last words that had passed between them . |
| 20 | She looked behind and concentrated on speeding backwards down the track , giving silent thanks that she had been the last to arrive . |
| 21 | Crawford had been the last actor to audition for the role of Buddy . |
| 22 | Such sharing of the superego constitutes what we call religion ; and the particular religious form which he assumed was that of the animal totem , a choice appropriate in the new hunting culture and a consequence of the fact that the primal father had been the last of the truly animal hominids . |
| 23 | I had been the last to get on at the previous station , so I was standing with my back wedged against the window . |
| 24 | She had been the last to use it , when she unlocked it to get the morphia for Mrs Richards . |
| 25 | Torry Gillick , in 1938 against Hungary , had been the last man to score for his country on Rangers ' pitch . |