Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] [be] the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our ride with Stig is the last ride we make . |
| 2 | ‘ Will ye shut up ? ’ from Nellie was the last thing the old couple heard as they watched the cart disappear down the track . |
| 3 | The third Thursday in May is the last one . |
| 4 | Equally it might be argued that since withdrawal from NATO was the last card he could play in his campaign against American influence , short of defecting from the West altogether , there were good reasons not to play it until it seemed likely to be effective or became absolutely necessary . |
| 5 | The meeting in Caracas was the last of a series of five meetings planned in February 1989 to reactivate the Andean Pact . |
| 6 | And this fossil tree from China is the last of family which predates the dinosaurs . |
| 7 | That the end of communism could also prove to be the end of the Catholic church 's unquestioned moral authority in Poland was the last thing the church hierarchy expected when the Solidarity leader , Tadeusz Mazowiecki , himself a long-time Catholic activist , became the first non-communist prime minister in 1989 . |
| 8 | Returning to Plumford was the last thing that Peter intended to do . |
| 9 | The bridge at Nuln is the last bridge before the sea , although there are ferries which cross the Reik at various points . |
| 10 | In one sense , the ‘ lights out ’ issue at Beida was the last straw ; when added to other grievances , it drove the students to risk punishment and protest . |
| 11 | The graveyard of the modest little church at Chapel-le-Dale is the last resting place of the many men who died from illness and disease during the construction of the Ribblehead railway viaduct in the 1870s as a result of the privations they suffered . |