Example sentences of "[adv prt] for the last " in BNC.

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31 As Strachan was clearly knackered at the end of it , I thought he could have had a run out for the last 10 mins or so .
32 But with the base set to close , the planes have flown out for the last time .
33 They made it to the end of the road in Bombay where all the cars had to be steam cleaned inside and out for the last leg of the journey .
34 United had only one fit midfield man , Chris Leadbitter , after the suspension of Tony Dennis but Bailie out for the last five games proved his fitness in the reserves ' 4–1 victory over Aldershot in midweek .
35 If McHale reverts to a 4–2–4 system Thompson will push on the right flank with Mark Ash recalled to right-back after being left out for the last three games .
36 As well as contributing to Oslobodjenje Camo is editor-in-chief of Nedjelja , a weekly magazine published by the same company , but which has n't come out for the last three months .
37 I went on further , and their lightness and gleam had gone when I looked back for the last time .
38 Anyway , we met up , and we never did get back for the last act .
39 And when I got back for the last few weeks Mortimer had left … ’
40 ‘ Why do n't you tell me about it ? — Sorry I have n't been around for the last couple of days .
41 I figured my body was telling me to rest , so I 've flopped around for the last two weeks eating steaks and drinking beef tea , and getting stronger every day .
42 I did n't know that Ben had been following me around for the last five years !
43 Andy Norman , who 's a sort of Sam Goldwyn of our athletics , spotted this key to his character years ago during a wait at Helsinki airport where Christie was hanging around for the last plane on a ticket about one grade up from cargo .
44 The drug has been around for the last 20 years , but this is the first time the research has been carried out over such a lengthy period .
45 It 's a new one that 's only just been around for the last fifty years .
46 He seems to think that it is fair that I should have first crack since I am the one who has carried the worms about for the last umpteen days .
47 Mistakenly , he had agreed to let Brompton-Smiley travel with him in the Rolls and discuss the matter of some urgency he had been whining about for the last two days .
48 To date it is a subtle but important change of mood that , with luck , will grow stronger over the winter — allowing spring to bring those green shoots of recovery that the Treasury and the Chancellor have been banging on about for the last two years .
49 So we came about for the last time , since we were now south of the entrance , and motorsailed north , a little further off , to give the rock a good clearance .
50 She remembered also , the hand of one of the drowning men , rising up out of the torrent and clutching , clutching at empty air before being dragged under for the last time .
51 An exhausted Anabelle ambled to the gate and squeezed herself under for the last time .
52 Try explaining it to Ashley as he sits in the back of the minibus watching the streets of Salzburg slip by for the last time as — filming finished — we begin the journey back home .
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