Example sentences of "[prep] the last [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the last hour they had done justice to Molly 's superb cooking . |
| 2 | For the last year we have lived together in my flat . |
| 3 | I know , for the last year we 've been saying we 'll go to Norwich |
| 4 | For the last year he 's been setting out his story in his autobiography , a glimpse into decision making during operations like Desert Storm and an insight to his personal life . |
| 5 | There 's been a new headmaster for the last year I think so I do n't know what he |
| 6 | ‘ A study for the last head he ever made , ’ said Isambard , watchful and patient at his shoulder . |
| 7 | For the first three firms we can use the Gordon growth model ( 6.27 ) , while for the last firm we use the supernormal growth model ( 6.38 ) . |
| 8 | For the last thing I wish to see alongside skimping on the police is local authorities reducing the number of teachers where they are needed to teach pupils . |
| 9 | For the last week they had the company of Violet Anstruther , which Lily found trying , although it perked Alice up . |
| 10 | For the last week he 's been in a hospice with terminal cancer . |
| 11 | ‘ For the last week I 've had my head into Irish files , got me ? |
| 12 | Every day for the last month we 've been totting the Vortec back and forth to the local office , where it has been used to run an Alpha Four Database . |
| 13 | For the last month you have been signed off sick from work , which has meant that your confidence in your ability to cope has further diminished . |
| 14 | For the last month he has relished driving through the cold and the foggy damp from his Nottingham home to the Headingley indoor nets a few days a week for practice with the rest of the England team . |
| 15 | When the meter man came for the last time he spoke of my aunt , and of the many years he had been to the house , so that he felt himself to be almost an old friend . |
| 16 | During the last century they came to be conducted largely by the police and lawyers instructed by them , who were replaced for most purposes by the Crown Prosecution Service in 1986 . |
| 17 | During the last year I have played in several fun competitions most of these were what was called Texas scrambles they are where everybody in the team hits a ball off the tee then where the best shot lands everybody plays their shot from that position this happens until the ball is in the hole the winning team is the team in with the lowest score . |
| 18 | During the last war it was requisitioned by the Navy . |
| 19 | Over the centuries the border has moved more than a little — for instance in 1917 , Alsace was part of Germany and during the last war it was again occupied by the Germans . |
| 20 | During the last lesson she attended — about seven months ago — she actually managed to get the round peg into its correct hole . |
| 21 | I was sitting in a row exactly in front of Harold Wilson and his party , and during the last interval I heard him ask his neighbour whether anyone would ‘ have seen these plays right through ’ . |
| 22 | During the last stage it is not uncommon for the project team to spend the majority of its time in production departments . |
| 23 | ‘ At my former company [ French Gold Abbott ] we were inexperienced and no one viewed FGA as the last place they were going to work . |
| 24 | The military type shackles will fit your Land Rover and are probably best sourced from a Land Rover breaker as the last time we purchased new they were virtually impossible to obtain . |
| 25 | Rokeya 's flat was so precisely as Lee remembered it that she felt as if no time had passed between the last time she had been inside it and the present day . |
| 26 | And at a time when the Ingard lot are pressed for money , he 's about the last person you 'd have thought they 'd go to any trouble over . |
| 27 | We felt pretty helpless in the train , as we did not know whether any arrangements had been made to meet us at Canton , but at the station we were welcomed by a Min. of Education official , together with a teacher-interpreter from Canton university , who surprised us with his urbane manner , excellent English , and his knowledge that David Owen had just been made the substantive Foreign Secretary to replace Anthony Crossland ( and that , incidentally , is about the last news we have heard about affairs in the U.K. ! ) . |
| 28 | Just one or two people who were who were here from the start so they remembered you know th thi this was this was more or less where the builders finished off , this was about the last house they did |
| 29 | It seems quite a while ago now , but it 's about the last thing I remember . |
| 30 | The make-up girl went to work on me as Duncan and I reminisced about the last time we 'd worked together . |