Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pers pn] [prep] the last [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | However , for the third time this season , Wantage could not hold on to a lead given them in the last five minutes , and allowed Andy Martin to shoot home for the equaliser for Bicester . |
2 | The norw. team who looked sure to qualify have vasted it in the last two games by loosing away and have no chance to qualify . |
3 | What 's really moved me over the last three or four years , as AIDS has become a major threat in this country , and especially since spring 1985 with the rising public hysteria about it , is that it 's brought out tremendous reserves of strength in lesbians and gay men which show the importance of the achievements of the previous fifteen years . |
4 | He had had no private income , pension , or — which had surprised me in the last few years — life insurance . |
5 | That stubbornness had got him through the last four years , but he had finally had to admit that walking out on his wife had been the biggest mistake of his life . |
6 | Years ago I used to think this was a fun sport but the reason for thinking this has escaped me for the last 2 weeks . |
7 | Subconsciously he must have been expecting something like this : his first reaction was not surprise but an intensification of the dull misery which had enveloped him for the last 24 hours . |
8 | Causes of change are many — the government , the unions , OPEC , the Argentines , company mergers , new brooms , technological change , recession , unemployment , legislation , EEC — you name it , you 've experienced it in the last few years . |
9 | ‘ How much money have you given him in the last three weeks ? ’ |
10 | With surprise , Juliet realised he was referring to his hospital episode , when she had nursed him for the last two weeks of his stay . |
11 | I 've managed it for the last four years , have n't I ? ’ |