Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [verb] [prep] the last " in BNC.
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1 | Part of the secret , as I tried to demonstrate in the last chapter , is the way in which we discuss again and again our ideas and proposals up and down the company , continuously adjusting , altering and probing our positions until , at last , we reach a conclusion which we can all accept and work to . |
2 | To a young doctor like myself , these were my ‘ valuables ’ — the Zeiss Ikon microscope in the scuffed leather case , its precious lenses protected from dust by silk covers ; the glass-lidded box of stainless-steel instruments — retractors , forceps , hooks , scissors and needles ; my much-thumbed copy of that heavy-going but essential tome , Gray 's Anatomy ; manuals of pharmacology and pharmacy ; Belding 's Textbook of Clinical Parasitology and Strong 's Prevention and Treatment of Tropical Diseases , both of which I 'd bought at the last minute in the hope that the young man in John Bell & Croyden in Wigmore Street was right when he assured me that they provided ‘ the answers to all tropical problems ’ ; and some bound volumes of the British Medical Journal which I had picked up cheap in Charing Cross Road . |
3 | Perversely , I enjoyed going beyond the last putt , and watching Augusta 's chairman , embodiment of America 's ‘ Establishment , ’ claim his share of world television with a speech of mind-bending banality . |
4 | ‘ I do think in the last couple of months he 's gone too far . |
5 | One of the things I did learn from the last tour was to rehearse enough material so that you do n't get fed up playing the same things over and over again . ’ |
6 | I did not see the trophy presented this time as I had to leave before the last race . |
7 | The fields and clouds were the same as those I had seen for the last half hour . |
8 | The first day I got back to work , my foreman asked me what I had gained in the last twelve weeks . |
9 | I mean if I 'd have if I 'd have , if I had come to the last one |
10 | I 'm not going to go into any length about the community arts budget , that is one area of service provision that we feel , and I 've said for the last two years , does not provide value for money . |
11 | I 've miss I 've missed for the last few weeks . |
12 | ‘ I 've suspected for the last two weeks . |
13 | V.W. Yes , I mean that 's something that when I first started I would n't have said , but I 've seen over the last six years changes in the governors and the role of the governors and I sense very much so that now they want Catholic appointments . |
14 | We 've created a new sector , I , I 've seen over the last three or four years , changes in the way that we 've tried to represent our membership in the Health Service from the old industrial conferences to combined industrial conferences into the er , current erm , section that we 've now got . |
15 | Er I suppose erm er the , most of the people I 've seen in the last ten years have been people either approaching retirement , planning for retirement or actually at the point of retirement and er we 've obviously looked at this course over a number of years and we try to sort of distil it down to the basics of things that we think are important er and that we think will be useful to you . |
16 | Although not directly connected to the constitutional difficulties being experienced by Canada , McKenna acknowledged the indirect connection when , speaking of the growing co-operation between the four provinces , he admitted that he had " seen more co-operation during the last six months than I 've seen in the last five years that I 've been Premier " . |
17 | all I 've eaten in the last week and one day is salads |
18 | similar to well the girl mentioned earlier on , that , since then I 've had within the last couple of years |
19 | I think one of the biggest problems we 've got or I 've I 've had in the last couple of years is that we 've got so many primary schools that we get children from Spring Gardens and Western are now producing national curriculum information for which Marian has got . |
20 | One thing I 've learnt in the last half hour is the speed at which the rules of debate seem to be changing and it will not surprise you to hear that as Mr Allenby and Harrogate District Council have moved towards Professor Lock 's point of view , they have moved away from the Civic Society 's point of view . |
21 | I 've changed over the last couple of years . |
22 | ‘ I feel deeply honoured to have been given the opportunity of continuing the work I 've started in the last 16 months , ’ he said . |
23 | In spite of the occupations I have followed for the last thirty years , shreds of science remain . |
24 | All that I have said in the last chapter about preparation and being able to sort out important issues is again not possible given this scenario . |
25 | I have searched through the last Conservative party manifesto . |
26 | I hope and pray that you will win — God willing , you will because you have all the ability in the world — but I have discovered over the last few days that there are people prepared to go to great lengths to stop you . |
27 | Here 's the list I 've made so far — all the children I have seen in the last three weeks . |
28 | Despite much discussion these days of the ‘ entrepreneurial personality , ’ few of the entrepreneurs with whom I have worked during the last 30 years had such personalities . |
29 | In the village I have known for the last 10 years , they openly regret that things were better under Marcos . |
30 | I mean , now I 've got several hundred pounds resting on it if I have to walk in the last few miles I will , but er pride I 'm sure I 'll keep going . |