Example sentences of "[verb] to [pron] [prep] the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 'll be a way to acknowledge the end of an era as well as to acknowledge the people who contributed to it over the last 20 years . |
| 2 | When he proposed to her on the last night I think she took him because , having been in her room for seven days , she 'd met nobody else and could n't bear to see her investment wasted . ’ |
| 3 | He remained silent , watching her , and her embarrassment grew until in the end she set her glass down with a bang and in desperation said , ‘ So are you going to tell me what 's been happening to you in the last five years ? ’ |
| 4 | It had come to him over the last year or so that there was only one thing that made him different from other men , and that was the weight he was carrying on his mind . |
| 5 | Again this was reported to you at the last meeting of this Committee . |
| 6 | I 've just had two presented to me in the last eight months . |
| 7 | ‘ At least 130 people have either rang or written to me in the last few weeks . |
| 8 | Mr Yeltsin stressed , however , that he would fight any attempts to cancel the emergency powers granted to him by the last Congress in October . |
| 9 | I have no memory of anything that happened to me in the last ten years . ’ |
| 10 | The examination he looks upon as completely separate ; he will attend to it at the last possible moment . |
| 11 | Even though it must have been obvious that he would not hold to it at the last , the threat was enough to make Stormy Petrel veer again to her original course , and though she was trying to increase speed , and was perhaps a little more powerful than Sea Otter , we , on our straight line , could hold her comfortably . |
| 12 | Once again she wished she understood what had happened to her in the last three months . |
| 13 | I may now have an inkling of what has happened to me over the last few years ; I may have lined up a few suspects , even tentatively put my finger on ‘ who done it ’ ; I may have my own private detectives working alongside the regular police , and we may have made an arrest or two , but the file has not been closed . |
| 14 | How lovely it would be to find the garden , and see what had happened to it in the last ten years ! |
| 15 | This short article is to let you know what has happened to us over the last few months . |
| 16 | One of the marvellous things about this record is that there 's so many references to all sorts of things that have happened to us over the last couple of years . |
| 17 | Now given the nature of the coastal economy and what has happened to us in the last ten years or so , we have calculated our conversions through to two thousand and six on a reducing level . |
| 18 | The Parish population , always minimal , had sunk to nil after the last two men had been hung for sheep-stealing . |
| 19 | And somebody said to me at the last children 's mass , thank you , you 're the only one that tells us we 're not needed . |