Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] [adv] [prep] last " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I saw that sort you 've been knocking about with last night . |
| 2 | This is a topic which the E E F has been promoting hard since last October . |
| 3 | After a long approach slog , reaching the crest of a ridge usually means you 're getting somewhere at last . |
| 4 | ‘ Do you know , ’ the Doctor said , ‘ I rather think we 're getting somewhere at last . ’ |
| 5 | There are a number of problems caused by a protracted campaign — and arguably , this election has been going on since last autumn when everyone started wondering whether Major could pull it off . |
| 6 | Talks have been going on since last night and the former Celtic and Manchester United star is set to travel north to sort out the details of his contract . |
| 7 | It 's still , it 's been , in the first two months it 's been going down on last year in volume terms . |
| 8 | Carpet sales are running ahead of last year . |
| 9 | ‘ Whoever it is has presumably been coming regularly since last November so he or she must have been seen by other people . |
| 10 | Things seemed to be looking up at last , ’ she says . |
| 11 | Bulls argue there are increasing signs that America 's manufacturers may be pulling out of last year 's recession , when the whole economy kept growing only because of the dominant service industries . |
| 12 | FIGURE 4 I 'm getting somewhere at last and feel quite happy . |
| 13 | ‘ The economy probably is better than it was a year ago , the computer retail business is strong and the general consumer electronics business at the present time seems to be running ahead of last year , ’ Roach said . |
| 14 | Ma and Luke are relieved to see that I 'm settling down at last . |
| 15 | The RIBA is still supporting the schooling of six black South African students , three of whom are new while the others are carrying on from last year . |
| 16 | with a s as we were picking up from last week , a c a c in , in a sense that land reform is , is already taking place , there is this sort of groundswell from the masses that to move beyond the , the moderate policy and that is then formalized in the May the fourth directive which marks like the return to land reform going back to and then y y y y you 've got the implementation of that May the fourth directive and then out of a very difficult position in nineteen forty seven when they , they are under attack from the Kuomintang and i in the spring of nineteen forty seven is actually taken by Kuomintang . |
| 17 | Well that , that 's why I think I went down so hard when I did n't get that job cos she said , I , I took , I took the erm , I went , I was the first , to go , first of all I did n't put in for this job it 's one that 's been laying around since last September , I wrote to , kept to St. Mary 's for this mental health thing and I got in touch with this Mrs and she said I 've got nothing I can offer you at the moment but I , I will be in touch and I went down the job centre one day and erm , there was this thing to say that they wanted mental nurses |
| 18 | On a happier note for Parrott , his manager Phil Miller is recovering well from last week 's heart bypass operation . |
| 19 | THE cost of borrowing is coming down at last . |
| 20 | Nice to see the kitchen 's coming on at last . |
| 21 | ‘ She 's coming round at last . ’ |
| 22 | Party workers have been rallying around since last Thursday night 's arson attack which caused tens of thousands worth of damage . |
| 23 | Convinced that he was getting somewhere at last in his search for admissible evidence , Shaughnessy now turned to several other lines of inquiry . |
| 24 | Controversy was brewing even before last November when Francisco Rodriguez Partearroyo , the architect who designed the proposed extension , unveiled his plans . |
| 25 | So Nigel was leaving home at last . |