Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] [verb] the last [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On to golf now and Colin Montgomerie has reached the last four of the Toyota World Matchplay at Wentworth . |
| 2 | We refer , of course , not to vast numbers of physically appealing American females , but to the stunning vistas of the Norfolk coast , which Richard Denyer has spent the last few years painstakingly photographing |
| 3 | Palacio has won the last two , but I doubt whether he has much ambition left to extend McMillan past the eighth round . |
| 4 | The A 38 , David Buss has spent the last 20 years working at different places along the road that join Nottingham and Cornwall . |
| 5 | The A 38 , David Buss has spent the last 20 years working at different places along the road that joins Nottingham and Cornwall . |
| 6 | Britain has spent the last 100 years fighting against the facts of German power : indeed our modern national identity has to a great extent been forged in the fires of the great conflict with Germany while our sense of our moral worth rests in part on our role in the defeat of Nazism . |
| 7 | Mr Rushdie has spent the last few months in Helsinki , Finland , completing a new book . |
| 8 | Evelyn Lachennes widow of a British war-time spy , Pierre Lachennes has devoted the last ten years to studying the effects of chemical weapons on civilian populations wherever they 've been used . |
| 9 | With his long arms , thick eyebrows and perpetual five o'clock shadow , Hughes has spent the last few years translating these daily drunken ramblings into a series of highly successful stage shows that have smoothed the way for his successful transition to our television screens . |
| 10 | The Gloucestershire company has spent the last five years building up an export market in America with department stores now taking their products . |
| 11 | Vice president of development , Saiid Zarrabian , admits the company has spent the last three years ‘ in perpetual transition , desperately trying to find out what it is good at … in doing this the company has lost time and money trying to make good the things it started . ’ |
| 12 | Reportedly UI has spent the last six months explaining its vision to these companies ( UX No 391 ) . |
| 13 | Dr Mitchell has spent the last five months getting people to write to the Royal Mail Stamp Programme Manager in London to lobby for a set of stamps honouring his father 's work . |
| 14 | Reid has won the last two Ulster rounds in the series at Temple and the Mid-Antrim 150 while James Courtney sneaked in to take the round at Dundalk . |