Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [prep] [art] last [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Abruptly she let go of the last protective remnants of self-deception , but , fearing questions she could n't answer without exposing the full extent of her vulnerability , she rushed on , ‘ I felt guilty to begin with , but I did come to terms with it eventually , and anyway , my parents had encouraged me to stay with radio even though it would take me away from them and they knew what was happening to Dad . ’ |
| 2 | now I 've got two little girls he said I hate to turn away knowing what he 'd done to the last little girl |
| 3 | At Rackhams in Birmingham , sales have already beaten last year 's figures after the store decided to open on the last four Sundays before Christmas . |
| 4 | The availability of water is the main constraint on food production and while traditional shifting cultivation and nomadic practices are inherently conservation-oriented , the trend towards permanent cultivation and settled herding over the last 50 years has led to widespread environmental change . |
| 5 | Blackburn managed to equalise in the last five minutes and won it 3–4 in extra time . |
| 6 | Some kind of crisis had developed in the last few minutes , and she did n't know why she felt afraid . |
| 7 | At home , amongst his people , Mr Kinnock 's speech provoked the most spontaneous and enthusiastic standing ovation he had received in the last three weeks on the campaign trail . |
| 8 | This quarter the RIBA asked over 300 practices what marketing activities they had undertaken in the last 12 months . |
| 9 | It was swollen with the heavy rain that had fallen during the last few days , and it looked fierce and dark . |
| 10 | Matt wanted to know how her parents had fared over the last few years , and as we were about to leave the table he asked her to stay and tell him about them . |
| 11 | Bowater 's retiring chairman , Norman Ireland , described the purchase as an ‘ exhilarating opportunity ’ and said trading in the last four months of 1992 had been good and this had carried on into the first two months of this year . |
| 12 | ‘ What 's the point ? ’ said the landlord , who for some reason had come in the last few weeks to regard the Mrs Machins as in an obscure way a rival show to himself . |
| 13 | Cos in actual fact there was a , a lot of sort of de facto redistribution because er some of these account settling things were just so ridiculous you know make them pay for crimes their family had committed over the last sixty years or whatever . |
| 14 | Indeed it is a feature of this scene that the tension is kept up to the very last pizzicato , and of course it is no accident that Britten , when he made the concert version of the fourth interlude , had to jump to the last two pages of the act to get his conclusion . |
| 15 | The fields and clouds were the same as those I had seen for the last half hour . |
| 16 | Mr McQuaker said he had just left work at the Haughton Road service station at 9pm as he had done for the last 25 years when the youths pounced . |
| 17 | He decided the wisest course was to pool all he had made over the last two years , enabling Julian to purchase the lease of a high street property . |
| 18 | Turning to the specific task on hand , he commended the gas turbine division as a whole for the great strides it had made over the last few years and stressed the important role that LTS had played in the division 's growth . |
| 19 | So the tumour , if tumour it was , had grown in the last six months . |
| 20 | Either the tumour in my lung had grown in the last three and a half weeks , in which case it must be even more in evidence , or it had stood still , in which case today 's X-rays must be much the same as the previous ones , or it had diminished . |
| 21 | Around the Stratford locomotive works a powerful cooperative movement had grown in the last third of the nineteenth century , and from the Beckton gasworks in 1889 new unionism had sprung . |
| 22 | As things turned out it was the Americans who made the greatest contribution , drawing heavily on the practice they had adopted in the last few years to incorporate the expertise available from industry and the unions into their CAB ( as they then were ) investigations . |
| 23 | Kaas had said nothing , had just wondered what they would say about his public image if they ever discovered the extent of the terrorist acts he had unleashed in the last few months . |
| 24 | I saw yesterday' in Markstadt a shelter which has beds for 100 of these children ; 42 children had died in the last 24 hours , but these places had been filled up . |
| 25 | His swift rise to international acclaim was nevertheless tragically cut short when at only 42 he died of a heart attack just when ‘ poised to take his place alongside Barere , Friedman and Horowitz as the natural successors to Hofmann , Rachmaninov , Rosenthal , Godowsky and Lhevinne , all of whom had contributed to the last golden age of pianism ’ as Bryan Crimp , the dedicated compiler of this anthology of Levitzki 's total surviving electrical recordings for HMV , puts it in the accompany booklet . |
| 26 | She did not know exactly how she had arrived at the last overwhelming conviction , only that she had . |
| 27 | Several foreign ships had arrived within the last twenty four hours . |
| 28 | In the editorial which he wrote for the last issue , he discussed the general political situation which had provoked in him a depression of spirit so different from anything he had experienced in the last fifty years as " to be a new emotion " ; but he also confessed to a feeling of staleness as editor . |
| 29 | The atmosphere in the tunnel had deteriorated in the last two hours as the cigarette smoke had grown thicker . |
| 30 | Whitely was all he knew and had known for the last sixteen years . |