Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [prep] [art] last [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her body was already responding , although her mind was still stubbornly clinging to the last few threads of resistance . |
| 2 | More serious still , during his reign the lack of contact and sympathy between ruler and people , already growing during the last two decades of the life of Louis XV , became more marked . |
| 3 | The church has had to decide whether it 's going to be on the side of the rich , the landowners , the establishment , who are a very small minority , or the poor , and generally speaking over the last fifteen or twenty years in Latin America it 's opted to be on the side of the poor and underprivileged , and theology has grown out of that terribly real situation , not something you learn from books , but something you do because you do n't have enough food in your belly , you ca n't provide for your family , the father 's been locked up , and that kind of theology , that kind of understanding of God , is really rather alien , I think , still to the kind of concerns most Europeans will have because they do n't face those very extreme conditions . |
| 4 | But the furore is certain to bump up Rogan 's sales among Smiths fan who — even after all these years — are still pining for the last great rock band . |
| 5 | A new wave in British sculpture set the art world here bussing during the last two decades of the 19th century when the status quo of classically austere , cold , funerary white marble was disturbed by the throbbing emotional statements of talented young men like Alfred Gilbert ( who gave us Eros in Piccadilly Circus ) George Frampton , Alfred Drury , Hamo Thorneycroft and others . |
| 6 | that lady is on , been on the corner , standing there talking for the last twenty minutes which must mean that Mark was late to school this morning so then |
| 7 | Jealousy of her friend had been steadily mounting in the last few months . |