Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [adv] [prep] the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's painted them continually for the last 6 years . |
| 2 | Remarkably it 's Derry fourth successive appearance in the final — they 've won it twice in the last three years . |
| 3 | He was a fan of the BCR though he came to know it only in the last few years of its life . |
| 4 | Put them together at the last possible moment and cover with a damp tea towel until you serve them . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 6 | he 's done nothing , put it right for the last year . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I 've had to put it together over the last three days . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | " I knew him briefly in the last days before the Rising , but I know of his work of course . |
| 12 | For these deaths we tried to identify and then interview the people who could tell us most about the last twelve months of the lives of the people who died . |
| 13 | But I 've been watching you closely over the last few weeks , Aurora . |
| 14 | I had been telling him so for the last few weeks . |
| 15 | ‘ He 's been my guardian spirit for years and it 's interesting to be forced to suppress all my own creativity in order to copy him slavishly to the last detail . |
| 16 | In 1979 he voted for Margaret Thatcher , backing her again at the last election after a switch to the SDP in 1983 . |
| 17 | Leaving , Nicholas crashed the door open and then , remembering , closed it soundlessly in the last inch of its movement . |