Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] in the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Hayward said Roberts had tried to kill himself again in the last day or two with a drugs overdose . |
| 2 | Holwell got a second after the interval with the Exmouth captain , Rosie Goodridge , pulling one back in the last minute . |
| 3 | And in terrible conditions , erm , another country is Zaire where there is currently , I mean I 'd think there was a military coup or something there in the last few weeks , but these things are colonies which were n't connected to Britain , hoping I 'm being , I think it 's a French colony , they use a Belgian colony or is an ex Belgian colony , maybe in Belgium and France you would get more news about those two countries , but here we do n't , because they , we have n't got that colonial connection that makes us interested perhaps erm and , and when we do find out about South Africa because it used to be a colony , we do find out about , I mean Ethiopia I think we found out about because of the disaster that 's happening there in several of the countries all around it , used to be British colonies . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's absurd — I look on Margaret as my best friend , but I 've only seen her once in the last six months — I do feel guilty about it . ’ |
| 5 | I turned again to Ellen , pretty freckled Ellen with her high cheekbones and clever green eyes and flaming hair and mocking smile , and I suddenly wondered whether McIllvanney had spoken to her again in the last week . |
| 6 | " I knew him briefly in the last days before the Rising , but I know of his work of course . |
| 7 | He was a fan of the BCR though he came to know it only in the last few years of its life . |
| 8 | Leaving , Nicholas crashed the door open and then , remembering , closed it soundlessly in the last inch of its movement . |
| 9 | Remarkably it 's Derry fourth successive appearance in the final — they 've won it twice in the last three years . |