Example sentences of "[verb] in the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He 's probably had two hours sleep in the last seven months , but he does n't care . ’ |
| 2 | There could be a real dogfight for those places , with every point won in the last few matches of the season becoming vital and only Cornwall themselves totally out of the reckoning . |
| 3 | They 'd probably be better off on the erm soft going tonight , but erm in the past few results erm it 's been evenly balanced Peter , you know , but every trap 's won in the last two or three meetings . |
| 4 | Utilitarianism has been both vigorously defended and attacked in the last few decades . |
| 5 | 1990-91commitments in support of macroeconomic and structural policies totalled only SDR5,600 million , two-thirds of which had been committed in the last four months to five countries — Bulgaria , Czechoslovakia , Hungary , Poland and Romania . |
| 6 | Earned in the last war , no doubt , and that stiff , awkward leg too . |
| 7 | because it 's come out a lot in this discussion that is there 's a big gap between the biological , biological and medical knowledge that 's accrued in the last ten or fifteen years , and the actual social consequences of these developments and there has n't been enough discussion and consideration of what will happen . |
| 8 | Mr Motion should be pleased enough by the compliments paid to his work , but most of these appear in the last paragraph or so as a sort of afterthought when the reviewer has finished giving his own version of the poet . |
| 9 | Expected in the last half of 1993 , the company is intent on doubling Pentium 's performance and moving three instructions through the 2.2m transistor chip every cycle . |
| 10 | He moved to the window , walking with a pronounced limp on his left leg , the result of a shrapnel wound in the last days of the Korean War . |
| 11 | Well , no what I 'm , what I 'm denying is I 'm questioning your assertion on what 's been happening in the last couple of weeks that we should react to that on a pa on er er report that has n't been released , right ? |
| 12 | for example , for the typical dieter we described in the last chapter , her goals for Week 1 are as follows . |
| 13 | As we described in the last chapter , blueprints ( some of which are not available to conscious recall ) weigh heavily among the factors which determine our motives , choices and behaviour . |
| 14 | The legal bond can be a useful container while partners struggle to come to terms with the ‘ me in you ’ , the phenomenon we described in the last chapter . |
| 15 | Clive and Rose Greenacre , also described in the last chapter , continued to live out their shared problem of fearing abandonment . |
| 16 | The closer we allow ourselves to get to another , the more we are affected and influences both consciously and unconsciously through the projective system or defence we described in the last two chapters . |
| 17 | The debate started from agreement about the outcome to be explained — the kinds of data given in the previous section — and about the broad changes , also described in the last section , which had been involved . |
| 18 | This is the anti-socialist , specifically anti-Marxist bent of the elitist theory as it unfolds in the last decade of the nineteenth century ’ ( Meisel , 1958 , p. 10 ) . |
| 19 | Reports of military gains by the Cambodian resistance have almost certainly been exaggerated in the last week , and estimations by the Thai and Chinese military intelligence agencies of the number of Vietnamese troops supposedly left behind in Cambodia appear little more than fanciful . |
| 20 | The High Elf sorcerers had succeeded in opening the vortex but were trapped within it , eternally keeping it open , eternally trapped in the last moments of their battle with Chaos . |
| 21 | Despite the brisk sales reported in the last few days before Christmas , December saw a small decline in retail trade compared with the previous year , according to the Confederation of British Industry 's distributive trades panel , said on Tuesday that many retailers had reported a disappointing Christmas , although the results were an improvement on recent months and sales in January were expected to be up on a year ago . |
| 22 | ‘ I have obtained the police accident reports for each junction that you will drive through and have counted all accidents that have been reported in the last three years on any part of the junction . |
| 23 | He lacked the confidence that has come in the last three or four years to make decisions and stick to them . |
| 24 | ‘ What 's the point ? ’ said the landlord , who for some reason had come in the last few weeks to regard the Mrs Machins as in an obscure way a rival show to himself . |
| 25 | ‘ Have you noticed any change in your brother recently — say in the last few months ? |
| 26 | Right , so erm , what 's happened to , to world trade over time , say in the last century , what major changes have taken place in world trade ? |
| 27 | Before we come on to look at that , can somebody tell me what 's happened to world trade say in the last century , what are the major trends in world trade ? |
| 28 | Oxford 's Mark Carlsson was the first casualty crashing out of heat eleven … then it was Troy Butler 's turn to tumble in the last race … |
| 29 | Hundreds of thousands of small , sometimes hidden , cameras have been installed in the last decade , mainly to detect crime or monitor traffic . |
| 30 | The large house on the corner is the Bylandt-Rheidtovsky Palace ( 13/171 ) built in the last quarter of the 17C . |