Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] for the last " in BNC.
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| 31 | The Gould machine was set like clockwork to continue ticking as methodically for the next two years as it had for the last eight . |
| 32 | For some reason , no one knew why , he had for the last four months taken to sleeping in the south porch . |
| 33 | He 'd have quite liked to have spent the night on the couch in Polly 's living room , as he had for the last few months of their marriage , but it had not been offered as an option and he supposed it was just as well . |
| 34 | In the editorial which he wrote for the last issue , he discussed the general political situation which had provoked in him a depression of spirit so different from anything he had experienced in the last fifty years as " to be a new emotion " ; but he also confessed to a feeling of staleness as editor . |
| 35 | As is usual with this event , everyone waited for the last competitors to finished , even though some took well over two hours . |