Example sentences of "[pron] for the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | For inexperienced pilots flying in light winds , a good general rule is to allow a maximum of 3 miles ' glide per 1,000 feet with nothing for the last 1,000 feet . |
| 2 | You look at the skill you did n't know you had , put a label on it and think : ‘ Yes I do do that ’ , whereas when you first walk in you think you 've done nothing for the last 18 years . |
| 3 | Tony finds several packets of banana custard that is hot and sweet ; it tastes bloody awful and neither Tony nor I like it , none the less he fights me for the last helping . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The record company had been lending it to me for the last six months , but they gave it to me at the London gig as a present because Andy MacDonald — the feller who owns the company — was so into the gig ! |
| 6 | Max joined me for the last nine of my eighteen-months ' stint in Sun City . |
| 7 | He 's been hiding me for the last couple of days . ’ |
| 8 | Bessie kissed me for the last time as I held tightly to her . |
| 9 | You 've put up with me for the last ten days . ’ |
| 10 | In October 1869 he wrote to Rohde : a whole lot of aesthetic problems and answers have been bubbling inside me for the last few years … of course , Wagner is in a very pregnant sense beneficial , especially as , an example incomprehensible on the basis of traditional aesthetics … ; and a few months later he was proclaiming to another correspondent a " marvellously new and changed … |
| 11 | Erm and if it 's not it 's er I 'm not going to deny the fact that some people say you know this has been good for me for the last eighteen months erm I 'm er I 'm used to being self employed I 'm going to stay that way but I 'm looking at other avenues . |
| 12 | As well as coaching many of Britain 's leading international crews , Spracklen is a key member of the Oxford University team , and he will be returning from Canada in March to look after them for the last fortnight before the Boat Race . |
| 13 | But I 've not been taking them for the last week . |
| 14 | Others are saying , a lot of them for the last few years have been saying , this is ridiculous . |
| 15 | We stand with them for the last gloomy minutes till the clock strikes the hour . |
| 16 | People cease to be rational even when they 've known and worked with someone for the last ten years . ’ |
| 17 | Gloucester were very fortunate in getting a late penalty kick and in fact the very last kick of the game saw Tim Smith come up to get one point which for the last 35 minutes looked the most improbable result of all . |
| 18 | The North York Moors National Park committee has agreed to expand its Moorsbus service which for the last ten years has enabled visitors to get to the heart of the moors without congesting roads and villages with private cars . |
| 19 | The purpose of his journey , which he revealed to the king 's sister , Adela , countess of Blois , was to excommunicate the king , ‘ for the injury which he had done to God and himself for the last two years and more . ’ |
| 20 | Mr Wilder , who for the last seventy years has been working on an exhaustive catalogue of English sporting prints 1750–1880 . |
| 21 | And remember , they are all products of Pakistan 's domestic cricket competitions , which are competed for by the commercial organisations and regional teams which have always been condemned by Imran — who for the last decade had not played domestic cricket in Pakistan . |
| 22 | And as I say ’ ( Morse looked slowly around his audience ) ‘ it was one of your own group who performed this grisly task — a man — a man who would have felt little squeamishness about first stripping the dead man of his clothes — for there had been much blood , much messy , sticky blood which almost inevitably would have transferred itself to the clothes of the man disposing of the body ; a man who for the last ten years of his working life had been inured to such gruesome matters , as a moderately competent ‘ mortician ’ in America . ’ |
| 23 | Anita Culley , who for the last six years has co-owned Walworth Castle with her husband , said the new plans could cost around £750,000 . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'm telling you for the last time , Harvey . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'm telling you for the last time , Liz , get up and let's go home . |
| 26 | He said , ‘ No , I have statements , I have witnesses and we 've been surveying you for the last four months . ’ |
| 27 | It 's probably just as well I have n't been near you for the last week . |
| 28 | ‘ I want to thank you for the last five minutes . ’ |
| 29 | The sooner I 've seen your grandmother , the sooner I can say goodbye to you for the last time . |
| 30 | I had to practically bite my knuckles to keep my hands off you for the last three weeks , and I did it because of your innocence ! |