Example sentences of "[pers pn] in the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's been so dreary for you in the last couple of weeks . |
| 2 | Largely instrumental , it 's like warm soapy water , soothing and enveloping you in the last bath of the day . |
| 3 | And after all the running around I 've done for you in the last couple of days . |
| 4 | He remained silent , watching her , and her embarrassment grew until in the end she set her glass down with a bang and in desperation said , ‘ So are you going to tell me what 's been happening to you in the last five years ? ’ |
| 5 | He had had no private income , pension , or — which had surprised me in the last few years — life insurance . |
| 6 | She pretty well knew how things had stood between Father and me in the last few years . |
| 7 | I 've just had two presented to me in the last eight months . |
| 8 | I have no memory of anything that happened to me in the last ten years . ’ |
| 9 | These gloomy thoughts have kept coming back to me in the last few days in the national Art Library at the Victoria & Albert Museum , collecting reference material on all those women artists who should have been included in Gravity and Grace : the Changing Condition of Sculpture 1965–1975 at the Hayward Gallery . |
| 10 | ‘ At least 130 people have either rang or written to me in the last few weeks . |
| 11 | ‘ I represent about 12 players at Tottenham Hotspur , and they 've all told me in the last couple of days that they certainly will put in for transfers and leave Tottenham Hotspur . ’ |
| 12 | " Then I must have applied to half of them in the last four years . " |
| 13 | Ruthin join them in the last four after routing Rhos on Sea 8–1 , Arwyn Pierce and Stephen Flanagan and Geraint Wyn Jones and Dave Fuller with three wins and Sid Smith and Stefan Dowitcz two . |
| 14 | I 've done lots of work for them in the last couple |
| 15 | We betrayed the Arabs over the Balfa declaration , we betrayed them after they cleared Africa and the Middle East under Lawrence , we betrayed them in the last war when they backed our rear and allowed the ninth army , and I was there , to join the eighth army and get out , and directly the last war was over , we betrayed them again — there 's a complete betrayal of the Arabs in the Middle East . |
| 16 | However , for the third time this season , Wantage could not hold on to a lead given them in the last five minutes , and allowed Andy Martin to shoot home for the equaliser for Bicester . |
| 17 | During the campaign itself Healey was noticed by only about 12 per cent on average but that concealed some sharp variations : 28 per cent noticed him in the last two days of the campaign , immediately after a spectacular on-screen row with TV-am presenter Ann Diamond . |
| 18 | This sort of nonsense could have been fairly innocuous had it not been for the fact that under Napoleon I , the frequent employment of courtiers in great and influential offices of state had led to a gradual isolation of the Emperor , which in turn gave too much power to those close to the throne , many of whom , it should be noted , actively worked against him in the last years of the reign . |
| 19 | Notice the bust of Dobrovský standing in front of the charming garden house which the Nostics gave him in the last years of his life . |
| 20 | You will remember that we met him in the last commercial . |
| 21 | A lot of humans had been in to look at him in the last few minutes . |
| 22 | I hardly made a bean from him in the last five . |
| 23 | ‘ How much money have you given him in the last three weeks ? ’ |
| 24 | If he races on Saturday New Level will line up against the much fancied Ringa Hustle and the dog which beat him in the last round , Apres Soleil , which is on offer at 80–1 . |
| 25 | Friends have been of paramount importance to her in the last ten years and she has not deserted them . |
| 26 | He had grown fond of her in the last few days . |
| 27 | He shot her a grin and she thought of what he 'd been to her in the last week and a half . |
| 28 | Once again she wished she understood what had happened to her in the last three months . |
| 29 | IN A POEM called History Peter Porter piles a number of state crimes — reminiscent of those attributed to the Stasi — on top of one another in a seemingly solid pillar of evidence , only to explode it in the last line with the simple but logical detonation : ‘ Their story will not be told . ’ |
| 30 | I soloed back up it in the last light , an orgy of vertical but easy bridging on huge holds . |