Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [art] last [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Tebbit , the ex-party chairman and MP for Chingford , asked Mr Hurd ‘ whether the pledge that we have given for the last four general elections , that there would be no further large-scale immigration , still stands or not ? ’ |
| 2 | Now that the work has been completed I hope the church will continue to attract pilgrims to the shrine of St Melangell , as it has for the last eight hundred years . |
| 3 | My disagreeable reaction to the photos reminded me of the way I — and a host of others — responded to the last major American exhibition of Koons ' work two years ago . |
| 4 | That 's what we er we want , that 's what we require , because do n't forget old people er , in fact our present national treasurer , a Mrs Mary , is now serving as the national treasurer and has done for the last thirty five years . |
| 5 | As Jo Grimond he was MP for Orkney and Shetland for thirty-three years and was seen as the last traditional Liberal . |
| 6 | We have no choice ; when my father died in nineteen seventy-nine I had to come to an arrangement with the Capital Taxes Office , that , er for not paying the full value of the er death duties on the value of the contents of the house , I had to open it to the public , quite frankly , if then and even more now , if I had to pay the full amount , I 'd have had to sell everything which my family have collected over the last seven hundred years . |
| 7 | Yet a good deal of this diversification probably happened in the last 70 million years , during the Tertiary . |
| 8 | They also said that maybe Strandli will push Wallace for the first team place after scoring in the last 2 reserve matches . |
| 9 | It 's unlikey that you 're lucky enough to own a Sinclair Harding clock — they 're so exclusive , and take so long to make that only seven hundred have been produced over the last twenty five years . |
| 10 | Following amendments to update our Constitution approved at the last Annual General Meeting held on 27th April 1985 , three members of the Executive Committee will retire annually , which of course means that it will be necessary in future to hold elections each year to fill these vacant places . |
| 11 | The question of the truth of the Christian picture of the world has increasingly come to be raised during the last two hundred years . |
| 12 | The apprentices from RAF Halton In Buckinghamshire have been keeping the air force flying for the last seventy two years . |
| 13 | He has played in the last nine reserve matches . |
| 14 | Yeah , I attended , I used to run an A T C squad , well I used to run the two different ones in London , and A T C squadrons , and I must say I 've been invited to the last two open nights . |
| 15 | McManus plays in the last 32 this morning against local player David Roe after a 5-2 victory over Ulsterman Jason Prince . |
| 16 | Two million have enrolled in the last twenty one years . |
| 17 | Yeah I genuinely look all I can say about this new album is if I 'd have continued recording for the last twenty odd years and had a sustained recording career like Cliff continued singing , this would have been the album that I would 've ended up doing anyway . |
| 18 | Several foreign ships had arrived within the last twenty four hours . |
| 19 | was all a load of nonsense and you 've certainly proved over the last twenty five years how ridiculous whoever started that story was . |
| 20 | I think it 's it 's fairly reasonable particularly when you consider what we 've experienced over the last two three and four seasons . |
| 21 | As modernity has progressed in the last one hundred and fifty years , it is not only the world of work that has become secularised , but also government . |
| 22 | Strong science-based strategies for wildlife conservation have emerged over the last one hundred years . |
| 23 | Appointed since the last Annual General Meeting : |
| 24 | It is instructive to note that relative newcomers to the dinosaur scene , the mosasaurs ( the violent giant aquatic lizards referred to in Chapter 3 , who appeared in the last 25 million years of the Cretaceous ) , showed evidence of mammalian-like illnesses . |
| 25 | That er , er , little action has been taken in the last thirty forty years since this has been being discussed , erm , I think the first international conference erm , produced their own report in nineteen sixty . |
| 26 | A proposal concerning this motion was put to the last Annual General Meeting of Convocation , but was not favourably received by the members present . |
| 27 | In fact , Hainer Bastian see this exhibition as completing the vision of Picasso presented at the last great retrospective in New York twelve years ago , when the focus was on his Cubist , surrealist and classical phases . |
| 28 | Beaten in the last two annual fixtures , a hard-nosed Leicester were 17-3 ahead at half-time with tries by John Liley , John Wells and Rory Underwood . |
| 29 | The Baxters romped to the last four 7 & 6 and meet the Sykes in today 's semi-finals . |
| 30 | The first projection was immediately disconfirmed by Labour winning the 1964 and 1966 elections and the second was undone by the 1970 election and has been destroyed by the last three general elections . |