Example sentences of "[pron] have [prep] [art] last " in BNC.
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| 1 | Professor Pearn and I had for the last ten years been interchangeably secretary and editor of the Burma Research Society , and when we discovered that the Society 's bank had been able to get our balance safely into India before the break-up , we conceived the plan of a series of Burma Pamphlets , describing various aspects of the national life . |
| 2 | ‘ I used mainly my green Ibanez that I had on the last tour , but for a Be-Bop solo on Giant Steps I used an Ibanez George Benson . |
| 3 | Now I 've past the last base and you want me to just run through a minefield okay ? |
| 4 | But I want you to understand that , in making up my mind , I did not forget the country or the Commonwealth which , as Prince of Wales , I have for the last 23 years tried to serve . |
| 5 | I have for the last ten years been writing software using Clipper database and would like to improve the front end on some of the software . |
| 6 | I have for the last two years been closely involved with an EEC forecasting study — The Forecasting and Assessment in Science and Technology ( FAST ) Biosociety subprogramme . |
| 7 | But I have over the last six months had occasion to discuss this very matter with a number of very highly placed Americans , and it seems to me that thinking in that country is much more far-sighted than that represented by their countryman here . |
| 8 | I have in the last couple of lectures erm outlined or tried to outline erm Locke 's basic decision erm his concept of how we as individuals are related to nature , to each other and I 've emphasised the crucial importance of this notion of how we are related to God . |
| 9 | LaBudde documented for the first time , on video and in his diaries , the suffering and death of thousands of dolphins in a tuna fishing practice known as ‘ fishing on porpoise' ’ , which has over the last 30 years killed between 6 and 12 million dolphins in the eastern Pacific . |
| 10 | But it is a feudalism where inequalities and poverty have been intensified by British colonialism and which has in the last thirty-seven years since independence been in a state of flux caused by the varying stages of capitalism which reach out to it from the towns and cities of the Indian sub-continent . |
| 11 | It consists of a fortuitous , almost accidental , alliance between a particular fraction of development capital and New Right political reformers , not always particularly clearly articulated , which has in the last few years managed to don the cloak of inner city concern . |
| 12 | You know you had to put how many operations have you had in the last ten years and have are you er receiving any treatment and all that bloody blah blah blah . |
| 13 | She had to the last a youthful enthusiasm , an erect carriage , and a firm step . |
| 14 | She was living with her boyfriend as she had for the last eight years and the hospital team were quite happy to talk to him about the proposed care plan for her . |
| 15 | It was an act of needlessly gratuitous violence and one which ensured for good and all , that Meryl Streep would be declining to take the female lead in the film version of this one , just like she had with the last two . |
| 16 | The only way to reverse what the hon. Gentleman alleges would be to go back to the sort of tax rates that we had under the last Labour Government — 83 and 98 per cent . |
| 17 | I 'm sure that if I was still living in England we would n't have got the push that we had on the last album and we would n't have got nominated for a Grammy . |
| 18 | All the discussion we had in the last few days . |
| 19 | Er passenger transport , er we have over the last three four years er taken sort of er in passenger transport . |
| 20 | We will continue to protect its value against price rises , as we have for the last 13 years . |
| 21 | We have tried to sum up the fragments of information which we have for the last three centuries in our second chapter , ‘ Glimpses of a Lost History ’ . |
| 22 | One of the contexts in which we are exercising ministry is that we have for the last fifty years well I have n't personally ! |
| 23 | Since discourse unfolds in time , it seems natural that time-deictic words can be used to refer to portions of the discourse ; thus analogously to last week and next Thursday , we have in the last paragraph and in the next Chapter . |
| 24 | that can be used for actually doing , doing the recycling on each of those , and and I would like to say that that this , this report had been erm prepared jointly by officers of the Transportation Department who were responsible for the operational side and wi and the officers and regulation side of , of the Authority Planning Environment Department and therefore the comments in the air have been shared between erm both sides er what I would like to say is that as well as the recycling activities which are carried out in our household waste facilities of glass , paper , waste - oil , etc. , er there are we have in the last twelve months started two initiatives which I think will fall in into erm the , the first part - composting . |
| 25 | It 's simply not good enough for them to say , as they have for the last forty five years , elect us , we 'll change everything and then things will be alright . |
| 26 | Now that the work has been completed I hope the church will continue to attract pilgrims to the shrine of St Melangell , as it has for the last eight hundred years . |
| 27 | The Gould machine was set like clockwork to continue ticking as methodically for the next two years as it had for the last eight . |
| 28 | For some reason , no one knew why , he had for the last four months taken to sleeping in the south porch . |
| 29 | 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 . |