Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb base] in the last [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I suppose in the last resort , they must have thought that the less sophisticated engineering featured here is only likely to attract a specialist audience . |
| 2 | Although manager Billy Bonds refuses to give up , he admitted : ‘ I think in the last month we have always felt it was going to be very difficult for us . |
| 3 | I have in the last couple of lectures erm outlined or tried to outline erm Locke 's basic decision erm his concept of how we as individuals are related to nature , to each other and I 've emphasised the crucial importance of this notion of how we are related to God . |
| 4 | Erm y'know erm it 's also erm perhaps interesting the way things have er have shifted you know in the last decade or so , like that thing that erm used to be on in the seventies , It Ai n't Half Hot Mum , with um a number of people pretending to be Indians and and exhibiting all the stereotypes y'know it ai n't half racist mum is probably more erm er in fact there was a book called It Ai n't Half Racist Mum that er Leicester University library had er y'know going on about exactly that you know the sort of y'know racism of comedy . |
| 5 | The contrast is striking , and can not be dismissed as irrelevant to the social and other problems that we confront in the last decade of our century . |
| 6 | He is a warm , caring person underneath as we hear in the last sentence , spoken by the uncaring Carlson , |
| 7 | Since discourse unfolds in time , it seems natural that time-deictic words can be used to refer to portions of the discourse ; thus analogously to last week and next Thursday , we have in the last paragraph and in the next Chapter . |