Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [noun sg] for the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | Trish , who has been representing her country for the last twelve years with such good horses as Manifesto and Michelangelo , only allows her horses to compete on decent surfaces . |
| 2 | Investors have been expecting its publication for the last two weeks but are fearful it will be kept back for the week when Parliament goes into the Christmas recess . |
| 3 | Eight days ago we heard his voice for the last time . |
| 4 | I have been studeously avoiding doing my work for the last few hours . |
| 5 | he was a development manager , I 've been giving 'em earache for the last year and a half , saying , you are falling behind man . |
| 6 | I could n't wait for the bell to ring at four in the afternoon when class would end and I could bang my lid for the last time before running all the way down the Whitechapel Road to help out on the barrow . |
| 7 | It is probably fanciful to cast Mrs Moore as Phaedra , or the P'daytabird as Theseus , but now Lewis was crossing the sea to see his father for the last time . |
| 8 | Whatever enforced their absence for the last couple of years , it was n't an extensive search for a new musical direction . |
| 9 | Eddie 's death had been a nightmare that had haunted her family for the last ten years . |
| 10 | Then he shook his feet free of the stirrups and , lifting his horse for the last time , sent it rearing into the enemy mass to crash and sink amongst them . |
| 11 | With Stamm acting as chief engineer , the San Jose , California start-up has been readying its line for the last two years financed by a $3.5m first-round investment from venture capitalists Institutional Venture Partners , Matrix Partners and Menlo Ventures . |
| 12 | Breeze , wedged in a corner of the crowded third-class compartment , cautiously massaged her left arm , which was cramped , and tried to wriggle away from her portly neighbour , whose big fur collar had been tickling her neck for the last half-hour . |