Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] for [art] last " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd been so preoccupied with the physical results of my condition for the last hour that I 'd forgotten its other effects . |
| 2 | I have been studeously avoiding doing my work for the last few hours . |
| 3 | ‘ Jason has been my boss for the last year , and as far as I was concerned a reasonably good one . |
| 4 | I never paid my bills for the last month |
| 5 | After putting up the tent , I sat outside , took the bandage off my shin for the last time , and undressed , before washing myself with a mug of water . |
| 6 | I could n't wait for the bell to ring at four in the afternoon when class would end and I could bang my lid for the last time before running all the way down the Whitechapel Road to help out on the barrow . |
| 7 | To paddle around Laguna Chica enjoying the idle drift of time , the depth of natural silence ; to go and rest my head for a last time between the fifteen-foot-high buttresses of Big Tree … |
| 8 | ‘ I 've had my greatest moments here on my birthday for the last 20 years and I do n't intend to stop now . |
| 9 | And you know it , it 's amazing how since my involvement for the last two years in Great Britain , all the problems that you have with critical illness , all the problems . |
| 10 | Their unpicking of our trade union law reforms , which would deliberately make strikes easier , longer and more frequent , their support for every last dot and comma of the European Commission 's social action programme , just one directive of which could add £5 billion to the costs of British employers — |
| 11 | The CDA 's share of the vote , at 32.7 per cent , although marginally up on its result for the last municipal elections in 1986 [ see p. 34309 ] , compared aversely with 35.3 per cent in the September 1989 general election [ see p. 36900 ] . |
| 12 | She says she wept nonstop for an hour during which she gradually began to realize that she had been out of her mind for the last six weeks . |
| 13 | Breeze , wedged in a corner of the crowded third-class compartment , cautiously massaged her left arm , which was cramped , and tried to wriggle away from her portly neighbour , whose big fur collar had been tickling her neck for the last half-hour . |
| 14 | Some approached the Santuario on their knees for the last part of the journey , saying the Rosary and imploring the Madonna 's help . |
| 15 | She 's been visiting the Compton family who have been without their car for the last two months . |
| 16 | British Citizens for Hong Kong renewed its campaign for a last resort right-of-British abode for all . |
| 17 | Nanny stood on the bridge that spanned the ornamental lake and looked back at the beautiful house that had been her home for the last thirty years . |
| 18 | Three months pregnant , yesterday Shelley Williams lost her baby , today she returned from hospital what 's been her home for the last two months , a tent pitched on a grass verge outside the home of her boyfriend 's parents . |
| 19 | ‘ They 've been encouraging local authorities to tighten their belts for the last 14 years , ’ he protests . |
| 20 | Investors have been expecting its publication for the last two weeks but are fearful it will be kept back for the week when Parliament goes into the Christmas recess . |
| 21 | The almost wordless scene in which Ma Joad , packing her belongings for the last time , comes across a pair of old earrings and tries them on , recalling some long forgotten happiness , is as touching as anything he ever directed . |
| 22 | Because i it is assumed management is learned by picking up the bad habits of your predecessor and their predecessors for the last five hundred years . |
| 23 | Its owner for the last 17 years , Keith Schellenberg , has been forced to put it on the market as part of a divorce settlement , agreed after more than ten years of legal wranglings . |
| 24 | Whatever enforced their absence for the last couple of years , it was n't an extensive search for a new musical direction . |
| 25 | Christies International , one of the world 's leading art auctioneers , yesterday revealed their profits for the last six months had been hammered by £1 million down to £2,112,000 . |
| 26 | It would have been a particular thrill to have met the man who could pen such material , she mused as she closed the lid on her suitcase for the last time on Tuesday morning , but she knew that that was out of the question . |
| 27 | In addition , the Treasury has offered an ex gratia payment of £580 to Ms Anouschka Zagorski , studying law at King 's College , London , to reimburse the cost of her fees for the last academic year . |
| 28 | With Stamm acting as chief engineer , the San Jose , California start-up has been readying its line for the last two years financed by a $3.5m first-round investment from venture capitalists Institutional Venture Partners , Matrix Partners and Menlo Ventures . |
| 29 | After they had gone , he said , he could n't remember whether they 'd said goodbye ; whether they had wrapped their arms around their children for a last loving embrace . |
| 30 | It was an astonishing performance in a first-rate production , and it led directly to her casting as Kitty MacVurrich in The Long Roads , McGrath 's TV film about a cancer-stricken Skye woman and her husband , visiting their children for the last time . |