Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [art] last " in BNC.
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| 1 | Still , in the next few days as the news began to filter in from Niki 's hospital that Niki had been given the last rites , that he had inhaled burning fuel and damaged his lungs , that his face had been appallingly burned , the facts did begin to sink in . |
| 2 | We are promised the last word in London nightclubs , BBQ , dancing , live bands , cabaret , live band karaoke , mystery entertainments and a huge amount of fun . |
| 3 | It had been worn the last time the Mendozas beat the O'Briens in the Open and on every occasion they had met since . |
| 4 | Leaving Joy to help Miss Prescott with what are called the last offices ( Joy is also a trained nurse ) , Alan and I went back to the house and between us brought the coffin down from the loft . |
| 5 | Amongst them are found the last adepts of controlled altered states , out-of-the-body experience , psycho-navigation , environmental wisdom and time-honoured alternative methods of giving birth , healing , living and dying . |
| 6 | If this excluded option is allowed back into the debate , and the claim that our existing intuitions should not be given the last word is seriously considered , the authority of the case for individualism is immediately questioned . |
| 7 | and I 'm born the last day in April . |
| 8 | MALCOLM ALLISON 'S return to English football with penniless Bristol Rovers could hardly be termed a last ride on the gravy train . |
| 9 | R. M. Harmer , author of the Corporation section of the first edition of this book , placed himself in such a position as to be issued the last ticket ( for a 6 pence fare ) . |
| 10 | Then he had to remember that even after the rounds had been allocated and the stetches accounted for , he still had to include the acre or so of headland , the land on the outside of the field where the ploughs turned , which had to be ploughed the last of all . ’ |
| 11 | Niki Lauda displayed courage beyond all recognition in 1976 when , six weeks after being given the Last Rites , he was back behind the wheel of his Ferrari picking up points in the Italian Grand Prix at Monza . |
| 12 | We all got a rough average of the scale and the standard of these people , but somehow or other and — I never understood why this happened — I seemed to get the occasional chaps that were given a last chance . |
| 13 | Thus were removed the last measures remaining of the state of emergency first imposed in June 1986 and partially lifted in June 1990 [ see pp. 34663 ; 37522 ] . |
| 14 | An announcement , perhaps blessed by Microsoft , is expected the last week in January . |
| 15 | A famous passage in Virgil 's Fourth Eclogue gives expression to the concept of the ‘ Eternal Return ’ : ‘ Now is come the last age of the song of Cumae ; the great line of the centuries begins anew … |
| 16 | When this is done the last equation becomes . |
| 17 | Worse , he 's spent the last hour with someone from the Daily Express . |
| 18 | The former holder of the world land speed rapping record ( 'til Curve 's mate JC001 half-inched it ) Freddy 's spent the last couple of years in the US working on his next LP . |
| 19 | ‘ Potter 's spent the last fifteen years harming people like Geoffrey . |
| 20 | ‘ Do n't even know what they 'd talk about ; a member of the factory-owning Scottish gentry and a second mate — or whatever Lachy is these days — who 's spent the last few years in Oz . |
| 21 | ‘ Do you think I 'm jealous of Eleanor because she 's spent the last four years with you , and I have n't ? ’ |
| 22 | Tomorrow in the final part of the series , a farmer who 's spent the last ten years converting his farm puts the case for organic farming . |
| 23 | Phil Farrand says that he 's spent the last two years building the car and has put hours of work into it … his machine runs on the same amount of power that drives a toaster or a hair dryer so much for ceremony … with the sun blazing down its time to race south … the track is the main Stewart Highway … |
| 24 | When a total quantity of Q l films is purchased the last film yields exactly P 1 pounds worth of extra utility to consumers . |
| 25 | It was four days ( during which he was given the last rites ) before his doctors gave him a chance to live through . |
| 26 | For sinners , the death-bed was the stage on which was played the last act of the impending tragedy . |