Example sentences of "[verb] [noun prp] in the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | She found Helen in the last one of all , sitting on the floor with her head on her knees , crying as if she never intended to stop . |
| 2 | Hateley , who virtually single-handedly beat Leeds in the last round , said : ‘ We could have been 4–0 down . |
| 3 | Gaunt showed consistent loyalty to his father and , after 1377 , to his young nephew Richard II , but he lacked the charismatic authority of his father and eldest brother , and he was widely if unfairly blamed for the misfortunes that befell England in the last years of his father 's reign . |
| 4 | ( William and Dorothy Wordsworth rented Racedown in the last years of the eighteenth century . ) |
| 5 | Second seed Amanda Grunfeld , from Manchester , joined Durie in the last 16 with a 6–1 , 6–4 victory over Banbury 's Claire Spencer , while Devon 's third-seeded Sara Gomer , runner-up for the past three years , crushed Fulham 's Claire Spencer 6–4 , 6–2 . |
| 6 | McCann joined Corsie in the last four yesterday when he edged out East Lothian 's Graham Robertson 7-6 , 7-6 , 1-7 , 4-7 , 7-6 . |
| 7 | The severe storms that have affected Britain in the last few years may be linked with sea-surface temperatures which have been fractionally higher than the long-term average . |
| 8 | As a long time drinker of real ale , who has only joined CAMRA in the last year , I found this belly-aching very annoying . |
| 9 | Peter Baker , John Daly and Sevvy Ballesteros are all out ; Pavin , Elkington and Frost joining Monty in the last eight . |
| 10 | It is no green novice that top dressage rider Trish Gardiner is referring to , but Wily Imp , he class sixteen-year-old dark bay gelding who represented Britain in the last Olympics , and has every chance of doing so again in Barcelona . |
| 11 | I 've quartered Europe in the last few years . |
| 12 | Tottenham Hotspur who put Oxford United out of the F A Cup in the fourth round , found life difficult at Fratton Park where Portsmouth forgot their disappointing League form and led Spurs by a Chamberlain goal after forty one minutes , but Gascoigne who tormented Oxford in the last round , equalised for Spurs in the sixty second minutes , and seven minutes from time , that man Gascoigne popped up with a winner . |
| 13 | Japanese attempts to change Japan in the last 150 years have been both imitative and derivative , but have been accompanied by conscious and unconscious retention of indigenous characteristics and the ‘ simulation ’ of traditional Japanese attributes , plus a fair measure of originality . |
| 14 | Well … we ( England ) are all rooting for you to beat Holland in the last game : - ) |
| 15 | Benjamin and I left Royston in the last week of November , when the days grew dark early and the sun disappeared a few hours after noon . |
| 16 | Lagan Valley finished last and , despite beating RUC in the last meeting , could not avoid the drop to division two . |