Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] last " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later the same morning Luke asked Merrill to list the dates of some previous meetings with a particular client , and Merrill , leafing through last year 's desk diary , came upon Elise 's name and address . |
| 2 | ‘ The show in the Village Troy was yabbering about last night , remember ? |
| 3 | Elsewhere in the capital , the Royal Lyceum claims it is recovering after last year 's £1.2 million debt crisis and ticket sales which were 10 to 15 per cent below target . |
| 4 | We 've gone from strength to strength from there qualifying for last year 's UK Team Chase Championships . |
| 5 | She lost 7–5 6–3 to Seles in the quarter-finals after disposing of last year 's finalist Jana Novotna , but she showed enough , as he has done before , to show the rest of the watching world that she is a major force waiting to erupt . |
| 6 | Producing three pages of detailed questions relating to last year 's accounts may entitle an interviewer to draw an adverse conclusion . |
| 7 | The Damages ( Scotland ) Act covers the cases of anyone dying since last July , when the bill was first raised by the Labour peer Lord Macaulay of Bragar in the House of Lords . |
| 8 | ‘ Secondly , I believe you will begin to see during the night the cracks opening at last in the moulds that have held British politics in sterile opposition between two major parties for so long . |
| 9 | ‘ Tim , it could be happening at last although the pain seems in the wrong place . ’ |
| 10 | When I was at the GLC , Ken Livingstone was in charge and I thought it was the beginning of Utopia , so many wonderful things were happening at last . |
| 11 | Oh Ernest , Charlotte , it 's happening at last ! ’ |
| 12 | Hallo , something was happening at last . |
| 13 | It 's happening at last . |
| 14 | Late May , the sun was returning at last , but it was still cold . |
| 15 | The route begins at the bonny little village of West Burton , climbs on to Penhill and then descends by drove road and field path to the ruined Crusaders ' chapel , returning at last by leafy lanes to the village . |
| 16 | LADY DAVERS : [ understanding at last ] Ah , brother . |
| 17 | Well it might be worth looking through last year 's list in the day . |
| 18 | The Grand Dru is no pussycat ; rather a scorpion , saving until last its tail sting . |
| 19 | The biggest police operation of its kind in the county ended successfully yesterday when Leonard Featherstone , 56 , of Tudwick Road , Tiptree , his son Brett , 24 , from the same address and Kenneth Hammond , 36 , of Banters Lane , Great Leighs admitted a total of 55 charges concerning false tacograph entries dating from last March . |
| 20 | The biggest police operation of its kind in the county ended successfully yesterday when Leonard Featherstone , 56 , of Tudwick Road , Tiptree , his son Brett , 24 , from the same address and Kenneth Hammond , 36 , of Banters Lane , Great Leighs admitted a total of 55 charges concerning false tachograph entries dating from last March . |
| 21 | I was chided for implying in last month 's notes that Somerset looked rather a better bet than Gloucestershire . |
| 22 | Already Mrs Thatcher was looking beyond last night 's result . |
| 23 | According to last week 's gossip , Sparc licencees Fujitsu Ltd and LSI Logic have been talking to DEC about Alpha ( UX No 385 ) . |
| 24 | K-III , the publishing arm of buyout specialists Kohlberg Kravis Roberts , has emerged as a leading bidder for Macmillan Inc in what looks set to be a keenly fought bid battle , according to last week 's Independent on Sunday . |
| 25 | According to last week 's fascinating piece in the Organ by Publishers Weekly 's bookselling boffin John Mutter , the newly emerging ‘ chain superstores ’ in the US are taking the market by storm , with ‘ 15,000 to 30,000 sq ft of selling space and stock between 75,000 and 125,000 titles ’ . |
| 26 | According to last year 's appraisal sheet I should have undergone training in : |
| 27 | The latest on Frank according to last nights local rag : — |
| 28 | The CIA 's code of conduct , which has been operating since last April , is now an integral part of the association 's Responsible Care programme , to which all CIA member companies have now signed up . |
| 29 | Funding Silotank has been operating since last year , but was officially opened yesterday at a reception attended by representatives of the organisations which have supplied funding for the venture . |
| 30 | Meredith 's forehead cleared , sensing that he was really listening at last . |