Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [verb] for the last " in BNC.

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1 ‘ It 's now a tradition that she comes for the last week of the campaign , ’ he says .
2 I think what I 'm trying to say is , in the minutes that we produced for the last meeting , it says that a copy of it will be available for the next meeting
3 One of the contexts in which we are exercising ministry is that we have for the last fifty years well I have n't personally !
4 Professor Pearn and I had for the last ten years been interchangeably secretary and editor of the Burma Research Society , and when we discovered that the Society 's bank had been able to get our balance safely into India before the break-up , we conceived the plan of a series of Burma Pamphlets , describing various aspects of the national life .
5 But you 've got to make a mental leap , because I mean for the last five years , things have been pretty horrible , since eighty seven really , I mean we 've only had the pick up in the last year .
6 She was living with her boyfriend as she had for the last eight years and the hospital team were quite happy to talk to him about the proposed care plan for her .
7 We will continue to protect its value against price rises , as we have for the last 13 years .
8 It 's simply not good enough for them to say , as they have for the last forty five years , elect us , we 'll change everything and then things will be alright .
9 The Gould machine was set like clockwork to continue ticking as methodically for the next two years as it had for the last eight .
10 As I understand it the Cleveland structure plan proposes the same number of dwellings for erm its next period which happens to be fourteen years , as it did for the last fourteen of the of the previous structure plan , fifteen thousand seven hundred .
11 Now that the work has been completed I hope the church will continue to attract pilgrims to the shrine of St Melangell , as it has for the last eight hundred years .
12 He 'd have quite liked to have spent the night on the couch in Polly 's living room , as he had for the last few months of their marriage , but it had not been offered as an option and he supposed it was just as well .
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