Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [art] last [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was swollen with the heavy rain that had fallen during the last few days , and it looked fierce and dark . |
| 2 | Frankly , the only people I can think of who need to go as low as 850 calories a day in order to achieve a pacey weight loss on the F-Plan are small , rather sedentary women , only a few pounds overweight , and those struggling off the last few pounds of excess weight after a prolonged dieting campaign . |
| 3 | Why was Sharp dropped for the last few games , and did he play today ? |
| 4 | If you are one of the people who left the course at 4pm , I have enclosed a copy of the Action Plan that was considered during the last half hour . |
| 5 | It was a slow-going mile , but towards the end one could hear occasional cars along the road ahead and Gareth and Coconut with whoops crashed through the last few yards , again , as the week before , relieved to be back in the space age . |
| 6 | There could be a real dogfight for those places , with every point won in the last few matches of the season becoming vital and only Cornwall themselves totally out of the reckoning . |
| 7 | Utilitarianism has been both vigorously defended and attacked in the last few decades . |
| 8 | Despite the brisk sales reported in the last few days before Christmas , December saw a small decline in retail trade compared with the previous year , according to the Confederation of British Industry 's distributive trades panel , said on Tuesday that many retailers had reported a disappointing Christmas , although the results were an improvement on recent months and sales in January were expected to be up on a year ago . |
| 9 | ‘ What 's the point ? ’ said the landlord , who for some reason had come in the last few weeks to regard the Mrs Machins as in an obscure way a rival show to himself . |
| 10 | ‘ Have you noticed any change in your brother recently — say in the last few months ? |
| 11 | If " adornment " is to be identified in linguistic patterns which have no semantic utility , we can point to the alliterations clustered in the last few lines . |
| 12 | Do n't wait until the last few minutes ; it may be too late . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Fifteenth- and sixteenth-century maiolica has in the last few years returned to popularity ( the recent exhibition of the maiolica collections of the Metropolitan Museum was regularly crowded , to the amazement of Met officials ) , though most of its present day collectors are Italian . |
| 15 | This particular novelty was the third short orchestral piece to appear in the last few years , written , like the second , at Knussen 's prompting , and it rounded off a performance of all three as a suite , titled Three Occasions for Orchestra . |
| 16 | Competitively , snooker has until the last few years been confined to Britain and its old Commonwealth , but there have always been a few tables in the Far East , catering for the needs of expats . |
| 17 | Look back at any crises which occurred over the last few years . |
| 18 | Here McMillan 's draw weight with last stone was perfect but the stone did n't curl as expected over the last few yards . |
| 19 | Around Somerton in Somerset , for example , Roger Leech suggests that all the settlements that existed in late Roman times have been located over the last several centuries , and so the pattern we see is probably a true reflection of the state of affairs in the Roman era , showing farmsteads and hamlets 1–2 kilometres ( ½-1 mile ) apart , scattered evenly across the landscape . |
| 20 | If only the Department of Education and Science would take a leaf out of C&P 's book when introducing some of the fundamental changes that education has had to absorb over the last few years ! |
| 21 | These seem to have had their fears that the flood gates holding back university collections are now opening confirmed , as Edinburgh University announced last month that it was proposing to sell a sculpture by Adrian de Vries or a Ruisdael landscape , bequeathed by Sir James Torrie , to help put right a deficit permitted over the last few years by a Treasurer who has since resigned . |
| 22 | Matt wanted to know how her parents had fared over the last few years , and as we were about to leave the table he asked her to stay and tell him about them . |
| 23 | been attacked over the last few months of not wasting time on the hunt I spend an awful lot of time relieving heavy goods traffic in my area , concerned totally about the environment , about mineral extraction quarries , mining , open cast , things of that calibre . |
| 24 | Blenching at the last few miles , shivering as sweat and dew ran down their backs , they turned into Donald Gillies 's yard at Camserney sawmill . |
| 25 | He could n't go back now , not after all the planning and scheming of the last few months . |
| 26 | I was looking down at my plate , licking my finger and picking off the last few crumbs , transferring them to my mouth . |
| 27 | At the moment the price for North Sea oil is just over $18 , $4 less than average industry forecasts made during the last few years when we were building our portfolio . |
| 28 | These drawings were always made between the last few days of August and the end of October . |
| 29 | I 've miss I 've missed for the last few weeks . |
| 30 | The fields and clouds were the same as those I had seen for the last half hour . |