Example sentences of "to be the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | She also turned out to be the last close friend I had for an awfully long time . |
| 2 | Needless to say , this is not going to be the last word in the debate between the constructivists and the nativists . |
| 3 | I no longer cared about seeing the film , though it was to be the last with my great hero Sean Connery . |
| 4 | What appeared to be the last rites were then administered by Kevin McDonald , whoise storming try was converted by Pugh , but with three minutes to go Moon , not to be eclipsed , cut loose for his third try and Watkins landed the match-winning conversion from far out on the left . |
| 5 | The reunion is held every two years and although this year 's was intended to be the last , organiser John Gray of Plymouth , said : ‘ Every time I say I 'm not going to do it again , they twist my arm to plan another . ’ |
| 6 | I haul my kayak up with what seems to be the last of my strength . |
| 7 | The recruitment of 40 top staff from Indian companies , including some from Bangalore-based Wipro Information Systems , proved to be the last straw . |
| 8 | The film was made in 1987 and turned out to be the last chance for outsiders to trace the old route to China before Burma 's political blow-up of 1988 . |
| 9 | Promoters World Wide Productions said it was likely to be the last party of its kind before new legislation comes into effect . |
| 10 | I had a record company screaming for final mixes , not even sure that they wanted this album because ‘ Space Oddity ’ did n't do too well and as far as they were concerned this was going to be the last they had to do with David Bowie , and I was n't delivering the goods . |
| 11 | It is likely to be the last chance to rescue the economy from chaos . |
| 12 | Suppose you knew that this was going to be the last day of your life . |
| 13 | ‘ So — is this going to be the last day of my life ? ’ |
| 14 | I happened to be the last person of my family there . |
| 15 | This is going to be the last party for quite a bit . ’ |
| 16 | It proved to be the last London double-decker bus with the passenger 's entrance at the rear . |
| 17 | ‘ Tom ’ Ayliffe , who was to be the last miller . |
| 18 | Although neither party knew it , the Cherbourg visit was to be the last state meeting between the sovereigns . |
| 19 | The very last inscription is that of President Beshara al-Khoury of Lebanon , who in 1946 recorded the evacuation from Lebanon of what he supposed to be the last foreign troops . |
| 20 | What was destined to be the last series of operations of the desert war was another of Stirling 's grand concepts , intended to tie in with Montgomery 's attack on Tripoli and beyond into Tunisia which was to start on 15 January 1943 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | It is believed to be the last living relic of the days when these islands were joined to Europe and the Thames was a tributary of the Rhine , where the same species of snail is still found . |
| 23 | The driver , anxious to be the last word in customer care , drove at a snail 's pace so that passengers could walk beside the train and pick flowers . |
| 24 | Suffice it to say that such is the complexity of this area of the law that one case on the subject , discussed in Chapter 13 , has already reached the House of Lords ; it is unlikely to be the last . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | These were to be the last workmen 's cottages built at Wolverton by the Company . |
| 28 | In 1798 he exhibited No. 447 , ‘ Derwent Water from Castle Rigg ’ , and in 1801 , No. 649 , ‘ View from Kirby Lonsdale Churchyard Westmorland ’ , but this appears to be the last entry , probably because once he had moved to Ambleside he concentrated on his one man shows in the area . |
| 29 | The Irish , thought by the EEC to be the last in Europe to take B17 off the market , say that the product has now been withdrawn . |
| 30 | We sometimes surprise ourselves as well as our near and dear ones by suddenly exploding into unreasonable anger over a trifling offence which just happens to be the last straw that breaks the camel 's back . |