Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [prep] [art] last [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | And that got me into the last three so I had to do it all again at the Barbican which I think was to see if I could fill that theatre with enough presence and vocal range . |
2 | However , for the third time this season , Wantage could not hold on to a lead given them in the last five minutes , and allowed Andy Martin to shoot home for the equaliser for Bicester . |
3 | He said , ‘ No , I have statements , I have witnesses and we 've been surveying you for the last four months . ’ |
4 | The norw. team who looked sure to qualify have vasted it in the last two games by loosing away and have no chance to qualify . |
5 | I have you and all at your magazine to thank for your support , but listening to the troubles of fishkeepers on the telephone and when meeting them over the last twelve months I am left in no doubt that there is a vast array of undetectable contaminants in our tapwater , apart from just chlorine , which consistently depress fish condition and render them less able to resist stress and infection . |
6 | What 's really moved me over the last three or four years , as AIDS has become a major threat in this country , and especially since spring 1985 with the rising public hysteria about it , is that it 's brought out tremendous reserves of strength in lesbians and gay men which show the importance of the achievements of the previous fifteen years . |
7 | His friends hail him as the last great artist of the 20th century . |
8 | During the campaign itself Healey was noticed by only about 12 per cent on average but that concealed some sharp variations : 28 per cent noticed him in the last two days of the campaign , immediately after a spectacular on-screen row with TV-am presenter Ann Diamond . |
9 | But Faldo has reserved his most barbed comments for Alliss and the press , even though the publicity afforded him over the last 16 years has brought a £2 million home and bulging bank account worth more than £10m . |
10 | If you are using two strands of 2/30s for your jacquard then add one extra strand for the welt and remove it after the last two CX rows . |
11 | No I put it in the last two times . |
12 | And the big , one of the big things that affected us in the last few years was er Dallas . |
13 | ‘ I want to thank you for the last five minutes . ’ |
14 | Max joined me for the last nine of my eighteen-months ' stint in Sun City . |
15 | He had had no private income , pension , or — which had surprised me in the last few years — life insurance . |
16 | He had to be assisted as he flayed himself , but he got most of the skin off as easily as a cardigan , and the minister only had to help him with the last few strips . |
17 | That stubbornness had got him through the last four years , but he had finally had to admit that walking out on his wife had been the biggest mistake of his life . |
18 | The BBC 's film review programme is 21 years old today — and Barry , 59 , has been presenting it for the last 20 . |
19 | Years ago I used to think this was a fun sport but the reason for thinking this has escaped me for the last 2 weeks . |
20 | Dozzell said : ‘ I thought about wearing it for the last few minutes , but I did n't think it would go down too well . |
21 | ‘ I kept sending the demands back and when I went in I was told not to worry , they had to send them to the last known address . |
22 | Subconsciously he must have been expecting something like this : his first reaction was not surprise but an intensification of the dull misery which had enveloped him for the last 24 hours . |
23 | Rain watched her for the last few yards , noting how the morning 's cheerfulness had been replaced by anxiety . |
24 | Causes of change are many — the government , the unions , OPEC , the Argentines , company mergers , new brooms , technological change , recession , unemployment , legislation , EEC — you name it , you 've experienced it in the last few years . |
25 | ‘ How much money have you given him in the last three weeks ? ’ |
26 | After the meeting a lot of people wanted to talk to Karen and ask her about the last few days . |
27 | At the beginning of this erm programme he admitted that we had an excellent education service in Oxfordshire , and he 's now , having taken no part in managing it for the last five years , he is now claiming that in fact it 's due to what happened before . |
28 | Women who were currently taking the pill or who had stopped taking it in the last 12 months had a significantly lower rate of endometriosis than those who had stopped for longer periods . |
29 | Of the leading English contenders , Peter Marshall , Chris Walker and Del Harris made it to the last 16 . |
30 | In competition with 800 other boys , he made it to the last five , but nerves got the better of him during a final audition at the Criterion Theatre , in London 's West End . |