Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [adv] [prep] [art] last " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's painted them continually for the last 6 years . |
| 2 | But one artist is so entranced by their beauty that he 's painted nothing else for the last six years . |
| 3 | Remarkably it 's Derry fourth successive appearance in the final — they 've won it twice in the last three years . |
| 4 | He was a fan of the BCR though he came to know it only in the last few years of its life . |
| 5 | Mr Hayward said Roberts had tried to kill himself again in the last day or two with a drugs overdose . |
| 6 | Put them together at the last possible moment and cover with a damp tea towel until you serve them . |
| 7 | Wait until I let you through into the last cellar , and then I must take the keys back to the steward . |
| 8 | Or walk out and let you down at the last minute . ’ |
| 9 | And he blames AC Scotland for the sabotaging of his plans to raise a second round of finance by stockbrokers in Europe who let him down at the last minute . |
| 10 | ‘ It 's absurd — I look on Margaret as my best friend , but I 've only seen her once in the last six months — I do feel guilty about it . ’ |
| 11 | We agreed to set it up at the last meeting . |
| 12 | he 's done nothing , put it right for the last year . |
| 13 | I 'm terribly lazy and always put it off until the last minute . ’ |
| 14 | At last he was freed , and gritting his teeth , Jack took the small forearm firmly in his hands and lifted it quickly off the last spike . |
| 15 | I gather that he 's got himself together over the last 18 months and it has certainly paid off . |
| 16 | They would only have had you in as a last resort . ’ |
| 17 | Holwell got a second after the interval with the Exmouth captain , Rosie Goodridge , pulling one back in the last minute . |
| 18 | He opened it up at the last minute , came flying over and it was a terrific shot . |
| 19 | It 's been really getting me down for the last four seasons — I 've been running disgustingly . |
| 20 | And Steve obediently went off , taking with him a jar of Marmite in a garden trowel as a substitute for coal in a shovel , and he stood out there on the front porch in the cold listening to the silence and looking at the stars , waiting for them to let him in on the last stroke of Big Ben on the radio : a faint , feeble echo of some once meaningful ritual , though what it had meant or now could mean nobody there knew or had ever known . |
| 21 | They manhandled her out of the vehicle and through the front doors , down the corridor and into the small , windowless and empty room that had become her home for the last nine hours . |
| 22 | I 've had to put it together over the last three days . |
| 23 | There were seven of us sharing the place , the Carters ' eldest son and his girlfriend having invited themselves along at the last moment , and their movements were completely unpredictable . |
| 24 | One , two , three , four five six , seven , eight no one , two three , four there 's nine so we 'll probably have to take some stools in , but I wo n't take them in till the last minute . |
| 25 | He implants ideas , gives clues , prompts proposals , and avoids committing himself publicly until the last moment . |
| 26 | She rode him out over the last furlong and finished some six lengths behind Shine On . |
| 27 | The design is produced by threading the weft strands through a number of the warp strands , rather than directly from edge to edge , and then looping them back around the last warp thread used . |
| 28 | This and his link with Stevenson 's had served him well over the last few years , and he had become something of an expert in railway funding , especially in European railways . |
| 29 | " I knew him briefly in the last days before the Rising , but I know of his work of course . |
| 30 | ‘ I took her there for a last relaxing evening before we threw ourselves into the election campaign . |