Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] for [art] last [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Pat Nevin , our other scorer , has not been able to train properly for the last five weeks because of an ankle problem . ’ |
| 2 | I 'm 32 and have been climbing seriously for the last 18 years , which helped me get accepted . |
| 3 | I put this on the agenda erm the phrase at the moment seems to be flagging things up and my concern is opposite Dave is the but as everybody I 'm sure is aware we 've got erm divisional A L O's based within as Crime Prevention Officers , the main concern for my particular area is Bill although based at has actually for the last three years built up a good working relationship and inspected staff from and . |
| 4 | They had done so for the last forty-five years . |
| 5 | They had done so for the last forty-five years |
| 6 | I have done so for the last seven or eight weeks . ’ |
| 7 | Hell 's teeth , baby — we 've been living together for the last two years or more . ’ |
| 8 | The bedsides of the dying were therefore thronged , not only by pastors saying prayers , but also by relatives and friends , listening attentively for a last instructive word or , in the case of a sinner , for some hopeful indication that all was not lost . |
| 9 | I have started divorce proceedings , as we have been living apart for the last two months , but now he is pleading with me to take him back . |
| 10 | I have started divorce proceedings , as we have been living apart for the last two months , but now he is pleading with me to take him back . |
| 11 | I mean , I 've been analyzing every dream I can remember now for the last twenty one years and er I think I 've got rather good at dream interpretation I must admit . |
| 12 | Mark ‘ Zippy ’ Pretty has finally got over his mid-life crisis by red-pointing Mecca at Raven Tor , and has been celebrating continuously for the last six weeks . |
| 13 | What I 'd like you to do just for the last ten minutes is to think of a member of staff you have who has a training need and think about how you will go about training them and the methods that you will use . |
| 14 | The numbers are in green for par and above , for ‘ go ’ as in you might as well go home , and red for below par , for ‘ stop ’ as in you can stop here for the last two rounds . |
| 15 | About three years ago I was running a workshop for students training to be secondary teachers at the Institute of Education in London , something I and colleagues have been doing annually for the last ten years or so . |
| 16 | ‘ IT 'S been disappointing coming here for the last 20 years — so let's not get carried away with this defeat ’ . |
| 17 | Because I 've had my hair highlighted regularly for the last ten years it gets really dry . |
| 18 | The thick grey hair had been tinted a reddish brown , a process to which she had succumbed only for the last two years , having previously been free in expressing her opinion of those stupid women who aimed to camouflage their age by dyeing their hair . |
| 19 | Murrells spent ten years in the reserve , kept there for the last few years against his will because Mitchell considered him indispensable . |
| 20 | Turn inland for the last few miles . ’ |
| 21 | But what makes HP 's claims more convincing than most is the support from traditional IBM mainframe software suppliers , something HP is said to have been putting together for the last 18 months . |
| 22 | Checking his watch he saw it was time to swim back to the canoe and his rendezvous with Roger Courtney , who had been paddling offshore for the last few hours , keeping the canoe head or stern towards the beach so that it was less likely to be seen . |
| 23 | A party from the Ordnance Survey left after having been stationed here for the last six months . |
| 24 | Yet the Crown derived little profit from the herds of deer which still remained in some forests : the Forest of Dean , for example , had in 1788 ‘ supplied only Four Bucks and Four Does Annually for the last Seven Years ’ . |
| 25 | Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel have been touring seriously for the last three years , having played to over a million people in a stint of two hundred and eighty-five concerts . |
| 26 | I 've been working abroad for the last twenty years , I 've just come back to the U K and my family 's all died , and I do n't know anybody , and I 'm going to start off working here . |
| 27 | The aerospace team in Celomer has been working hard for the last nine years to get Deutsche Airbus approval for paints supplied from Celomer , and one year ago Celomer secured the first 100 tons contract . |