Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pers pn] [prep] the last [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Largely instrumental , it 's like warm soapy water , soothing and enveloping you in the last bath of the day . |
| 2 | Harvey was there in a red-coat uniform , smiling and doing his neat little dances and pretending to drop plates and saving them at the last minute , and the girls were saying ‘ Ooo ’ and slyly studying each other 's hairdos and shoes . |
| 3 | That was it until handover on Monday , which she hoped would be enough time to shake off the cold that had been dogging her for the last couple of days . |
| 4 | And on sex he notes : ‘ The older women are best because they always think they may be doing it for the last time . ’ |
| 5 | And on sex he notes : ‘ The older women are best because they always think they may be doing it for the last time . ’ |
| 6 | We came very close to doing it at the last election . |
| 7 | Hundreds of soldiers doing it after the last war — and airmen . |
| 8 | Though he was more like his old self , many suspected they were seeing him for the last time . |
| 9 | But I 've not been taking them for the last week . |
| 10 | He 's been hiding me for the last couple of days . ’ |
| 11 | We thank Raymond and his bride Koti for not cancelling us at the last minute , and allowing BBC Good Food to share in their excitement . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm telling you for the last time , Harvey . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm telling you for the last time , Liz , get up and let's go home . |
| 14 | She stood up and looked round the room as though she were leaving it for the last time . |
| 15 | Suzanne Greenhill , 20 , had been blindfolded — depriving her of the last sense she could have used to identify the attacker — and her underwear had been stuffed in her mouth . |