Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [pron] [prep] the last " in BNC.
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1 | It would be misleading to corrall all the donated works into feminist questioning of gendered identity ; one of the freedoms women have won for themselves over the last 20 years has been precisely those freedoms from conventional definition by gender . |
2 | Had Louis been inclined to forget the destiny his father had mapped out for him , he would have been forcefully reminded of it in the last decade of his reign , when his chief adviser was Suger , abbot of St Denis between 1122 and 1151 , a man of humble birth consumed by a passionate devotion to the cause of monarchy in the Carolingian mould . |
3 | It had come to him over the last year or so that there was only one thing that made him different from other men , and that was the weight he was carrying on his mind . |
4 | Again this was reported to you at the last meeting of this Committee . |
5 | And after all the running around I 've done for you in the last couple of days . |
6 | How much business have you done with them over the last year ? |
7 | I 've just had two presented to me in the last eight months . |
8 | ‘ At least 130 people have either rang or written to me in the last few weeks . |
9 | Forgive the typed letter — bit impersonal , but I am trying to get to speedy grips with the little apple laptop powerbook 100 which I got when George was home — heaven alone knows how I would have done without it in the last few weeks . |
10 | Mr Yeltsin stressed , however , that he would fight any attempts to cancel the emergency powers granted to him by the last Congress in October . |
11 | he 's not , he 's not , he 's not a , he 's not stupid , Christopher , he , he 's certainly not stupid , and er he must have seen , I mean I assume he keeps his bank statements , I mean I 'm afraid we have one or two bank statements which show thousands of pounds that he 's received from us over the last year erm and , you know , he ca n't blind because they 've all gone through his bank account , you know , he must |
12 | In fact the1880s main building , a Grade I listed extravaganza modelled on Chambord , is in a structurally sound condition , having had money from the Pilgrim Trust , the Wolfson Foundation and the University Funding Council spent on it over the last ten years . |
13 | This sort of nonsense could have been fairly innocuous had it not been for the fact that under Napoleon I , the frequent employment of courtiers in great and influential offices of state had led to a gradual isolation of the Emperor , which in turn gave too much power to those close to the throne , many of whom , it should be noted , actively worked against him in the last years of the reign . |
14 | People cease to be rational even when they 've known and worked with someone for the last ten years . ’ |
15 | Oh I think there 's no doubt about that and also their their their wages were low in the beginning you know and and their their their hard work that they 've put into it for the last you know I mean it had it I mean David Price says at the best of times is not easy to run a quarry you know you know and they they ha all work in a quarry so it had to be a cooperation and you know the management said you come up with us and and they were n't complaining actually about the wages it was quite good wages for . |
16 | Once again she wished she understood what had happened to her in the last three months . |
17 | I may now have an inkling of what has happened to me over the last few years ; I may have lined up a few suspects , even tentatively put my finger on ‘ who done it ’ ; I may have my own private detectives working alongside the regular police , and we may have made an arrest or two , but the file has not been closed . |
18 | How lovely it would be to find the garden , and see what had happened to it in the last ten years ! |
19 | This short article is to let you know what has happened to us over the last few months . |
20 | One of the marvellous things about this record is that there 's so many references to all sorts of things that have happened to us over the last couple of years . |
21 | Now given the nature of the coastal economy and what has happened to us in the last ten years or so , we have calculated our conversions through to two thousand and six on a reducing level . |
22 | The Parish population , always minimal , had sunk to nil after the last two men had been hung for sheep-stealing . |
23 | In between these two new efforts sits Filip 's Advanced Workstations & Systems which has , he notes , taken unto itself over the last year all the ingredients needed to be a stand-alone company bar a dedicated sales force . |
24 | She 'd slaved for him for the last seven year , and before that ever since she was born — eight or nine year was it — at the Old Mint ? |
25 | She could not know the things he had discovered about himself in the last few days . |