Example sentences of "[been] [verb] the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | Still , in the next few days as the news began to filter in from Niki 's hospital that Niki had been given the last rites , that he had inhaled burning fuel and damaged his lungs , that his face had been appallingly burned , the facts did begin to sink in . |
| 2 | I 've er I 've only just I 've only been coughing the last couple of days , but |
| 3 | A schoolboy has been recalling the last minutes of a ski-lift crash in which his step brother died . |
| 4 | aye , you see , that 's why so it meant that we have been going the last week in each month , er each second month |
| 5 | It had been worn the last time the Mendozas beat the O'Briens in the Open and on every occasion they had met since . |
| 6 | If he knew how old she was he might want her to tell him what she had been doing the last few years . |
| 7 | Reuben Boll had been taking the last part of his annual leave . |
| 8 | I have been reading the last few pages and I think they are true and beautiful and just , recompense enough for the cold gloom of this untidy and lonely room . |
| 9 | ‘ No , I 've been freelancing the last couple of years . ’ |
| 10 | It is in these past two weeks that Faldo has been putting the last pieces into place . |