Example sentences of "[verb] [pos pn] [noun] 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 | ‘ They 've been encouraging local authorities to tighten their belts for the last 14 years , ’ he protests . |
| 3 | Christies International , one of the world 's leading art auctioneers , yesterday revealed their profits for the last six months had been hammered by £1 million down to £2,112,000 . |
| 4 | This year , as the locos dropped their fires for the last time , the cash bag totalled more than £1243.72 . |
| 5 | I never paid my bills for the last month |
| 6 | Eleven people will lose their jobs when the slaughter house closes its doors for the last time on November 26 . |
| 7 | But today it closes its doors for the last time . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Eight days ago we heard his voice for the last time . |
| 10 | I have been studeously avoiding doing my work for the last few hours . |
| 11 | The Frank Cooper Marmalade Shop , which forever linked the name Oxford with marmalade , is closing its doors for the last time . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Whatever enforced their absence for the last couple of years , it was n't an extensive search for a new musical direction . |
| 15 | Eddie 's death had been a nightmare that had haunted her family for the last ten years . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | A hospital for pensioners that opened almost a hundred years ago is about to close its doors for the last time . |
| 19 | The almost wordless scene in which Ma Joad , packing her belongings for the last time , comes across a pair of old earrings and tries them on , recalling some long forgotten happiness , is as touching as anything he ever directed . |
| 20 | After two pitches I suffered one of those inexplicable aberrations and instead of following the blatantly curving crack into which we had been cramming our limbs for the last 60ft I launched up an unerringly straight vertical groove above the belay . |
| 21 | The manufacture of pins continued at Frogmarsh until 4 May 1934 , when the company closed its doors for the last time . |
| 22 | How one charity helps another The Goodwill charity shop in Court Arcade , Darlington , closed its doors for the last time on Tuesday after four years of fund-raising for a children 's village in India . |
| 23 | EMPLOYEES of Courtaulds Fibres , Canada , gathered for a Christmas party in December , just weeks after the viscose rayon plant closed its doors for the last time . |
| 24 | It was an astonishing performance in a first-rate production , and it led directly to her casting as Kitty MacVurrich in The Long Roads , McGrath 's TV film about a cancer-stricken Skye woman and her husband , visiting their children for the last time . |
| 25 | 28th August 1930 was a sad day , as the islanders closed their doors for the last time . |
| 26 | 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 . |