Example sentences of "[v-ing] [noun] for the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | Derek says … they 've broken a few boats in testing … they 've been building prototypes for the last six months and have been putting in hours at sea to make sure everything is right |
| 2 | IAN RUSH believes Kenny Dalglish made a terrible mistake when he walked tearfully out of the Liverpool dressing room for the last time . |
| 3 | Sheila and Jim Smith from Abingdon have been fostering children for the last twenty-five years . |
| 4 | Scanning teletext for the last 2 days has only revealed ‘ Gerry Francis has denied rumours he is selling Bardsley to Leeds ’ |
| 5 | It was getting time for the last bus across London Bridge for the District Line . |
| 6 | ‘ She 'd been taking hush-money for the last ten years . ’ |
| 7 | Although widely described as boat people , a large number of the January arrivals had made most of the journey to Hong Kong aboard Chinese buses , only boarding boats for the last leg of their journey . |
| 8 | Communication becomes difficult in a big team , and slack rope is more likely between the climbers , creating potential for the last member of a large team to fall and pull off those above . |
| 9 | In fact , we in methodism we 've been ordaining women for the last twenty-five years , and it has become as natural as breathing to us . |
| 10 | And yet , as er as Linda said women have been playing football for the last seventy , and before that , I mean op , throughout the century women have been playing football ! |
| 11 | Although I have n't been making records for the last six years , I have been working behind the scenes at Artists Against Apartheid , and me the Mandela concert last month , seeing that speech go out live on the BBC to all those people , was a culmination of all that work . |
| 12 | Melanie , their new PR , has been watching proceedings for the last few minutes . |
| 13 | I suggested a little time ago that the surface indications offered both by Joyce 's life and by his writing up to including The Portrait — he does leave Ireland to live with his Nora in Triest , in Switzerland , in France , in Switzerland again , until his death in nineteen forty one , visiting Dublin for the last time in nineteen hundred and twelve — he does give us in Dubliners and The Portrait a sharp sense of the traps he feels he must escape from , the church tentacular , pervasive , the seedy provincialism , the narrowness , the philistine complacency . |