Example sentences of "[be] [prep] the last [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh , I wish I could have continued as I 've been for the last year or so , with no hopes or fears , and no pleasures and no sadness . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Ethel turned me into a frog and that 's where I 've been for the last day , and it was her fault . |
| 3 | If our climate continues to be as mild as it has been for the last couple of winters we may yet challenge our French and German competitors ! ’ |
| 4 | Where has she been for the last decade ? |
| 5 | It was only when everyone rose to their feet , shook hands and made a beeline for the cooking tent — where , it emerged , Balvinder Singh had been for the last half-hour — that I realized that the ceremony was over . |
| 6 | ‘ Yes , it has been for the last hour . ’ |
| 7 | My suit case was ready packed and had been for the last week . |
| 8 | Categories are as the last competition i.e. HUMAN PORTRAITURE , PICTORIAL , LANDSCAPES , FLORA AND FAUNA , ARCHITECTURE/BUILDINGS/RECORD AND ANY PRINT ( the latter is for exhibitors not having previously won a prize ) . |
| 9 | It must have been after the last job we did for you . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm sure we 're on the last lap now . ’ |
| 11 | The places she 's been in the last couple |
| 12 | I I simply do n't know but the paperwork I 've seen says that erm it is as likely in the next four or five years that major inward investors could be in the B one office type of employment as they happen to have been in the last couple of years in the manufacturing class . |
| 13 | It has only been in the last year or so that the Government has started to grapple with major areas of social policy like education and housing . |
| 14 | IF Gidon Saks has been in the last year the bovver boy of Scottish Opera , singing splendidly but speaking out of turn , he has surely redeemed himself this week directing the RSAMD Opera Class in two productions at the New Athenaeum . |
| 15 | BELOW : Stanley Mill in 1987 , but it could have been in the last century , with its elegant , yet functional iron arches , which allowed plenty of room for line-shafting . |
| 16 | There has been in the last decade a considerable strengthening of links with philosophy , sociology , cognitive science , discourse analysis , literary criticism . |
| 17 | ‘ You ca n't have been in the last war , ’ said Tallboy invitingly . |
| 18 | But of course it is only reassuring if the person can be relied on to be there whenever the need arises — and you can be sure that that is bound to be during the last class hour on the longest teaching day of the week . |
| 19 | It might be for the last time . ’ |
| 20 | She climbed into the carriage knowing it would perhaps be for the last time ; maintaining the horses and the grooms was a luxury she would have to forgo . |
| 21 | She knew that if she were whirled down again it would be for the last time . |
| 22 | This is my speech , not the hon. Gentleman 's , and I warn him that if I give way now it will be for the last time . |
| 23 | The Noble Earl , Lord has been wounded by the suggestion he confessed to be in the last debate that Mr Howard has the intention of putting political friends into these jobs . |
| 24 | How strong this support will prove to be in the last analysis remains to be seen , but Labour 's treatment of Mr Gould and its refusal to back calls for a referendum on the Treaty suggest that any hopes of altering the movement towards European Federalism remain with the Conservative Party . |
| 25 | But Silverstone 's position as one of the world 's premier circuits could be on the last lap … |
| 26 | The Unionist fear is that we may be on the last verse of another . |
| 27 | We could be on the last flight . ’ |
| 28 | In the schematic dating we apply to this period it seems to be around the last century of the second millennium that an upward turn becomes traceable , notably in pottery and specifically the pottery of Athens . |
| 29 | Two men could n't get any closer than those two have been over the last couple of years , could they ? ’ |
| 30 | If you are on the last field of an option and you press TAB , an error message is reported at the foot of the page . |