Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] last " in BNC.
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| 1 | I need n't be frightened of the mole-woman : she 'd be too busy making beds and totting up last night 's proceeds to wonder whether I was a truant from a Youth Custody Centre or a prostitute on an overnight break . |
| 2 | I thought that they were cribbing up last night 's French homework but it turns out that they were playing a game called ‘ Ouija ’ . |
| 3 | In the recession that followed , output fell steeply , levelling off last Summer . |
| 4 | They all speak excellent English and going on last year , are so pleased to be in Britain and so appreciative of everything arranged for them that they make an easy and rewarding group to entertain . |
| 5 | We just thought we 'd better come and explain what had been going on last night . ’ |
| 6 | I remember joking about us going down last year when we were briefly third from the bottom but there 's no funny side this time . ’ |
| 7 | With only going in last night and |
| 8 | But nearly a third of the supporters who took advantage of the offer did so with only the Republic game in mind — and did n't bother turning up last night . |
| 9 | Noriega loyalists were holding out last night in a key barracks , despite overwhelming US firepower . |
| 10 | With 30 or more Tory Euro-sceptics still holding out last night , tonight 's vote threatens to be a cliffhanger . |
| 11 | Driving back into town , he put them down near their homes , Nutty , Nails and Gary getting out last down by the bus-station . |
| 12 | Martin Johnson and Vinny Cunningham will play their first matches of the tour after flying out last week as replacements . |
| 13 | It is now up to 305 members , the last five coming in last week alone . |
| 14 | So er oh thi , this is finishing off last years , I ai n't started on this years yet ! |
| 15 | My Lords , I took the opportunity knowing this question was coming up last Friday to spend an entire morning on the site in the building |
| 16 | er li er big girls I tell you she 's got her birthday coming up last today , she had her birthday |
| 17 | I thought you were n't coming out last night ? |
| 18 | The Chancellor 's admission that the PSBR will reach £50 billion in 1993 is no more than City economists were bandying around last autumn . |
| 19 | Rick , 29 , confessed about his ghostly arm to Lynn Redgrave on BBC TV 's Fighting Back last Wednesday , but his revelations were never broadcast . |
| 20 | Although there was never any chance of rival armies fighting out last June — that was a fantasy nourished by pro-democracy propaganda and the American networks — there were considerable tensions of which we now have a better understanding . |
| 21 | It 's the page setting out last year 's calendar and the calendar for 1986 . |
| 22 | ‘ When we were messing around last year , we were playing the same songs to the same music biz people , ’ asserts softly-spoken guitarist Bernard Butler , softly . |
| 23 | It 's er the title song is er and the second version which is a remix version which I 've done , which I was working on last night . |
| 24 | Vic feels his blood pressure rising at the thought of his eldest son , who dropped out of university four months ago and has not been usefully occupied since , now swaddled in a duvet upstairs , naked except for a single gold earring , sleeping off last night 's booze . |
| 25 | I 've had another word with Personnel and they say that even though I ca n't have any more full-timers , I can have a part-timer to help me with making the sandwiches in the morning and clearing up last thing at night . |