Example sentences of "[pers pn] for the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ! |
| 4 | Max joined me for the last nine of my eighteen-months ' stint in Sun City . |
| 5 | He 's been hiding me for the last couple of days . ’ |
| 6 | Bessie kissed me for the last time as I held tightly to her . |
| 7 | You 've put up with me for the last ten days . ’ |
| 8 | 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 … |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | But I 've not been taking them for the last week . |
| 12 | Others are saying , a lot of them for the last few years have been saying , this is ridiculous . |
| 13 | We stand with them for the last gloomy minutes till the clock strikes the hour . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'm telling you for the last time , Harvey . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'm telling you for the last time , Liz , get up and let's go home . |
| 16 | He said , ‘ No , I have statements , I have witnesses and we 've been surveying you for the last four months . ’ |
| 17 | It 's probably just as well I have n't been near you for the last week . |
| 18 | ‘ I want to thank you for the last five minutes . ’ |
| 19 | The sooner I 've seen your grandmother , the sooner I can say goodbye to you for the last time . |
| 20 | 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 ! |
| 21 | Of course there 's I do n't know whether you 'd well you wo n't if you have n't been involved but we for the last last year and this year we 've had this children from er there 's a a sort of Nottingham University |
| 22 | She 'd slaved for him for the last seven year , and before that ever since she was born — eight or nine year was it — at the Old Mint ? |
| 23 | The familiar house , the carpeted hall , were before him for the last time . |
| 24 | I walked back behind him for the last several hundred yards , and was shocked at the sheer , mindless , bestial ferocity of the crowd . |
| 25 | Though he was more like his old self , many suspected they were seeing him for the last time . |
| 26 | Subconsciously he must have been expecting something like this : his first reaction was not surprise but an intensification of the dull misery which had enveloped him for the last 24 hours . |
| 27 | Then Riven asked the question that had been gnawing at him for the last day : ‘ What about Murtach ? ’ |
| 28 | Would some lingering affection for the man she had once married have driven her to France to see him for the last time ? |
| 29 | One day soon she would see him for the last time . |
| 30 | ‘ We have him for the last five games of the League run-in . |