Example sentences of "be [prep] [be] the last " in BNC.

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1 These were to be the last workmen 's cottages built at Wolverton by the Company .
2 The story of the Frome Titfords properly ends with the youngest of the four brothers whose fortunes we have been following ; his children were to be the last Titfords in the town , and he himself outlived William , Thomas and Charles .
3 By what were to be the last years of the silent cinema quite a few critics had become aware of some sense of life in the feature film .
4 They were to be the last to escape from the Teeth of the Storm .
5 It was like being the last man alive on earth .
6 I no longer cared about seeing the film , though it was to be the last with my great hero Sean Connery .
7 ‘ Tom ’ Ayliffe , who was to be the last miller .
8 Although neither party knew it , the Cherbourg visit was to be the last state meeting between the sovereigns .
9 Boyle had been , with one short break , continuously in Government office for eleven years and was to be the last Minister of Education , as Butler had been the first .
10 It was to be the last triumph Chapman was to see at Elland Road , for in the summer of 1916 he took a managerial job at a munitions factory at Barnbow , near Leeds .
11 The final touch to the forward line came with seventeen-year-old Cliff Bastin , costing £2,000 from Exeter City , who was to be the last in a long line of Chapman discoveries that began with Fanny Walden twenty years before .
12 made what was to be the last club trip out of Britain for many years when they travelled to Dublin , and played a football match on Easter Monday .
13 We made the excursion with ‘ the children ’ that had become traditional ; perhaps it was the most beautiful , and it was to be the last .
14 This was to be the last major action by the 14th .
15 It was to be the last occasion on which many of his friends saw him , for he and Tasker did not return from that 1982 Expedition .
16 But just once — it was to be the last time — we did get back .
17 Such measures brought it to heel for the time being ; but this was to be the last occasion before the end of the old monarchy when the government won a real victory over this increasingly dangerous opponent .
18 Barely two weeks after the Jarama carnage , Franco launched what was to be the last Nationalist attempt to take Madrid , with an attack to the north-east of the city , in the province of Guadalajara .
19 Val Fajr No 9 was to be the last set-piece operation in the north .
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