Example sentences of "[vb past] [be] [verb] for the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | It could be the day you deleted the thesis you 'd been writing for the last year , or the time the system crashed while you were giving a presentation in front of a thousand people . |
| 2 | He said he 'd been followed for the last week or so . |
| 3 | ‘ I asked what you 'd been doing for the last five years … ’ |
| 4 | Then Andy took his wedge , which he had been swinging for the last ten minutes , and hit the perfect , or apparently perfect shot , straight at the flag . |
| 5 | His own firm had been picketed for the last five months in a dispute over the use of new technology . |
| 6 | The fact was that Algy had been living for the last year with a working-class architect called Len in a basement flat in Maida Vale . |
| 7 | Her East Coast American accent deceived most people , it was so like , and yet in some ways so unlike , that of the society in which she had been living for the last six months . |
| 8 | He had borrowed it from a fellow inmate of the lodging house in Kennington where he had been staying for the last week . |
| 9 | Mike noticed a group of heavy gamblers , most of them Greek , move towards the baccarat room , where the Sultan of Rupolei had been losing for the last hour . |
| 10 | Now , however , she sat up in bed and wondered , as she had been wondering for the last few days , what had happened to the spider . |