Example sentences of "he be the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Clarke is not , after all , the first , nor will he be the last politician to find himself caught on the hop by a shrewd interviewer . |
| 2 | After the way he treated my sister , I would n't go with him if he were the last man on earth . ’ |
| 3 | At the age of 75 , he is the last of the four leaders of the original military junta , the last to talk still of the high crusade against communism . |
| 4 | By the protector 's command , Denby must leave upon the morrow — he is the last of my own loyal retainers . |
| 5 | He is the last great British man of letters . |
| 6 | In some respects , he is the last major social theorist directly to have confronted this issue in its own terms , despite the fact that this same quantitative rise in material culture has continued , and appears set to continue , at a most extraordinary rate . |
| 7 | ‘ He is the last one here I would have expected to think of doing that . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ He is the last of the Baskervilles . |
| 9 | He is the last person to be entitled to think of himself as a protector of jobs ; he is the destroyer of jobs . |
| 10 | He is the last line of defence but when was the last time he won us points with a save ? ? ? |
| 11 | ‘ The Duchess bred him , and he is the last one with three spots of Arkle 's blood in his veins . ’ |
| 12 | He 's the last guy in the world who should be given such power . |
| 13 | He 's the last person you 'd be thinking you 'd be picking up . |
| 14 | ‘ Ca n't you understand that he 's the last person on the staff I want to see upset ? ’ |
| 15 | When Teacher came out and rang his bell for the children to line up in neat rows , she held Frankie back so that he was the last to obey the signal . |
| 16 | He was the last king of England to attempt to create a new royal forest — the forest of the honour of Hampton Court , established in 1539 near his new palace of Nonsuch near Epsom . |
| 17 | Smith flew with the RAF at the end of the war in India and was a navigator in the aeroplane which flew Lord Mountbatten around the country when he was the last Viceroy . |
| 18 | He was the last manager with first-hand experience of Chapman 's methods and after he died in 1956 there set in the lean period which lasted until 1970 . |
| 19 | Robert England , after service in the 1914–18 War — he was the last officer left alive at Vimy Ridge and won the MC at Cambrai — graduated from Queen 's University , Kingston , Ontario and the Sorbonne and , after a series of educational , business , academic and government appointments , was chairman of the University Requirements Committee in Ottawa . |
| 20 | He was the last of his line . |
| 21 | He told himself that he was the last man who could reasonably be expected to advise or reassure on the problems of pregnancy and he sensed that Rickards 's unhappiness at his wife 's absence went deeper than missing her company . |
| 22 | Known as St John of Bridlington , he was the last English saint to be canonised in 1401 prior to the Reformation . |
| 23 | Without him , we would n't have won promotion when we did , and he was the last player I wanted to lose . |
| 24 | He was the last of the non-juror bishops to die , and his acceptance that cession or death gave legitimacy to the new bishops enabled most of the non-jurors to return to communion with the Church , though the extreme minority continued in schism . |
| 25 | And he was embarrassed further when he realised he was the last to finish . |
| 26 | He was tall , lean , shock-haired and deeply tanned : humorous of mien and colloquial of speech , he was the last person one would expect to find wandering through the groves of Academe . |
| 27 | That was in her favour , and if she did happen to be a female tea leaf , well , he was the last person entitled to throw stones . |
| 28 | He was the last passenger onto the aircraft . |
| 29 | And he was the last person Carver needed just now . |
| 30 | He was the last English king to spend time ( as king ) in Gascony : ten months in 1273–4 ; two years in 1286–9 ; so there was a need to establish an administration there which would function without the king-duke 's presence at all . |