Example sentences of "was [prep] [be] the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was like being the last man alive on earth . |
| 2 | I no longer cared about seeing the film , though it was to be the last with my great hero Sean Connery . |
| 3 | ‘ Tom ’ Ayliffe , who was to be the last miller . |
| 4 | Although neither party knew it , the Cherbourg visit was to be the last state meeting between the sovereigns . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | We made the excursion with ‘ the children ’ that had become traditional ; perhaps it was the most beautiful , and it was to be the last . |
| 10 | This was to be the last major action by the 14th . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | But just once — it was to be the last time — we did get back . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Val Fajr No 9 was to be the last set-piece operation in the north . |