Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] [art] last " in BNC.
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| 1 | As regards the anatomical studies of late times , with very varied utilization of the microscope , and the otherwise greatly improved means of minute structural investigation , I need hardly say that , by them during the last thirty years , great parts of the science of disease have been completely transfigured . |
| 2 | We read , for instance , that Spalding ‘ has now a very neat and generally modern appearance , having more than doubled its population and buildings since 1811 , and most of its ancient houses and public buildings have been rebuilt ; many of them during the last twenty-five years ’ . |
| 3 | They secured eight but also lost three wickets including two run outs , one of them off the last ball . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ! |
| 7 | Max joined me for the last nine of my eighteen-months ' stint in Sun City . |
| 8 | He 's been hiding me for the last couple of days . ’ |
| 9 | Bessie kissed me for the last time as I held tightly to her . |
| 10 | You 've put up with me for the last ten days . ’ |
| 11 | 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 … |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | and then he came to me as a last hope |
| 14 | Get them for a last bargain . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | But I 've not been taking them for the last week . |
| 17 | Others are saying , a lot of them for the last few years have been saying , this is ridiculous . |
| 18 | We stand with them for the last gloomy minutes till the clock strikes the hour . |
| 19 | He would meet me off the last train … . |
| 20 | What has frankly surprised me about the last decade is the way in which social scientists who make no claim to a Christian profession have been talking openly about the relevance of religious values to our current economic problems in the Western world . |
| 21 | Tom gave a slow , satisfied nod and left them after a last reassuring pat on Faye 's shoulder . |
| 22 | We have studied the sediment from the bottom of Loch Ness and Loch Morar to discover whether the sea entered either of them after the last ice age . |
| 23 | The average Council Tax payer , the council tax ca n't be more than , around four percent erm which reminds me of the last miracle budget we had , ninety eighty nine I think it was , again a Labour budget which I think was three point nine per cent increase then and the lowest rate of increase for twenty years erm and the highest level of growth erm . |
| 24 | Towards the end of ‘ Stately As a Galleon ’ I get cramp in both feet and they curl up under me like the last Empress 's fingernails and stay cramped through waltzing finale , curtain calls and notes from director , friends and husband . |
| 25 | You times the last 6 ways by 4 to get 24 . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'm telling you for the last time , Harvey . |
| 27 | ‘ I 'm telling you for the last time , Liz , get up and let's go home . |
| 28 | He said , ‘ No , I have statements , I have witnesses and we 've been surveying you for the last four months . ’ |
| 29 | It 's probably just as well I have n't been near you for the last week . |
| 30 | ‘ I want to thank you for the last five minutes . ’ |