Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pron] [noun] for the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | Trish , who has been representing her country for the last twelve years with such good horses as Manifesto and Michelangelo , only allows her horses to compete on decent surfaces . |
| 2 | Investors have been expecting its publication for the last two weeks but are fearful it will be kept back for the week when Parliament goes into the Christmas recess . |
| 3 | I have been studeously avoiding doing my work for the last few hours . |
| 4 | The Frank Cooper Marmalade Shop , which forever linked the name Oxford with marmalade , is closing its doors for the last time . |
| 5 | he was a development manager , I 've been giving 'em earache for the last year and a half , saying , you are falling behind man . |
| 6 | Then he shook his feet free of the stirrups and , lifting his horse for the last time , sent it rearing into the enemy mass to crash and sink amongst them . |
| 7 | With Stamm acting as chief engineer , the San Jose , California start-up has been readying its line for the last two years financed by a $3.5m first-round investment from venture capitalists Institutional Venture Partners , Matrix Partners and Menlo Ventures . |
| 8 | The almost wordless scene in which Ma Joad , packing her belongings for the last time , comes across a pair of old earrings and tries them on , recalling some long forgotten happiness , is as touching as anything he ever directed . |
| 9 | After two pitches I suffered one of those inexplicable aberrations and instead of following the blatantly curving crack into which we had been cramming our limbs for the last 60ft I launched up an unerringly straight vertical groove above the belay . |
| 10 | It was an astonishing performance in a first-rate production , and it led directly to her casting as Kitty MacVurrich in The Long Roads , McGrath 's TV film about a cancer-stricken Skye woman and her husband , visiting their children for the last time . |
| 11 | Breeze , wedged in a corner of the crowded third-class compartment , cautiously massaged her left arm , which was cramped , and tried to wriggle away from her portly neighbour , whose big fur collar had been tickling her neck for the last half-hour . |