Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [pron] last [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If , however , you are considering applying during your last year at school for deferred entry , you are strongly advised to consult the faculty in which you intend to study . |
| 2 | In 1879 Crookes sold the Quarterly Journal ; it lived on until 1885 , becoming in its last years a monthly-but it had never been a leading journal , and general scientific reviewing never caught on . |
| 3 | Leavis , a radical socialist before 1950 , turned briefly liberal before adopting in his last years a bitterly conservative stance that favoured no party of state , hating economic growth and the European Community , so that long before his death in 1978 his idealism had been soured by the varied spectacle of human folly ; but though always outside religion , he was in no way hostile to it , and admired its moral seriousness . |
| 4 | I managed to film this without Mr Bolt Head noticing at our last meeting . |
| 5 | You were looking for it last night . |
| 6 | He aimed his red-and-white bike down Decatur Street , towards a small brick pub in the Quarter , searching for his last friend . |
| 7 | It had settled already on the mounds still lying heaped on the field , white as quicklime ; flesh not yet cold and consigned already to ashes ; bone , juice , and fibre still consuming its fuel , deflating from its last action ; sponging off the last image and led already to dust . |
| 8 | But she was laying in bed listening to them last night were n't you ? |
| 9 | Almost the only thing he could think of coherently as he peered at the Dutch tiles and crazy paving was that according to his last statement of account he had 67 12s. 9d. in the bank . |
| 10 | ‘ When you were shouting at me last night I realised , perhaps for the first time , just exactly what you 'd gone through all your life . |
| 11 | No longer active sexually , he now invests his time and energy in caring for his last offspring . |
| 12 | Now for the really crucial thing — when you 're reducing your time , all you care about is improving upon your last effort for the same distance . |
| 13 | Turning to your last point , you 'll be pleased to hear that Word for Windows 2 features specific support for envelope addressing . |
| 14 | The whole sorry enterprise generated a cynicism that was to be heightened by the Watergate scandal , which emerged as the tragedy of Vietnam was moving to its last stages ( p. 104 ) . |
| 15 | The crowd were getting at them last night . |
| 16 | They were dancing for you last night . |
| 17 | I s that was the thing , Dave was moaning about it last night see . |
| 18 | Now one can make judgments about means and indeed as I was saying in my last lecture , the actual capability of the weapons you have can only really be found out when you use them and then you can see , very often , that they are in fact ineffective . |
| 19 | Now one can make judgments about means and indeed as I was saying in my last lecture , the actual capability of the weapons you have can only really be found out when you use them and then you can see , very often , that they are in fact ineffective . |
| 20 | Is that what she was saying to you last night ? |
| 21 | Now tell me , what were you doing at your last school ? |
| 22 | Early interviews saw Russell ranting lovingly about Tim Buckley , third single ‘ This River Never Will Run Dry ’ dabbled alluringly with woozy C&W miserabilism and — heaviest hint of all — a five-minute break for retuning at their last London headlining gig back in January was accompanied by ‘ Wichita Lineman ’ drifting through the PA and a slide of Glen Campbell projected on to the stage . |
| 23 | I was talking about her last week when our Queen came to visit me Elizabeth , with her white painted face , black teeth and red wig . |
| 24 | they were on about , talking about it last night were n't they ? , they , back in the fifties they were on eight pound a week |
| 25 | talking to him last night , he makes bread . |
| 26 | but , but this , I 'd like to know brother James from this other brother Taylor , and that 's he 's always been er sort of s a strong wave sort of opinionated sort of person , cos he 's changed all that , well I can tell by talking to him last week |
| 27 | So he , he , as I was talking to her last night on the phone the front door bell 's going and it 's our Fred from next door right looking after her and bringing forms for her to fill in to get dial-a-ride . |
| 28 | Michael Jackson reportedly paid a backing musician £1 million for playing on his last tour . |
| 29 | He was now in India , and judging by his last letter he appeared to be enjoying life out there . |
| 30 | ‘ You were not thinking about her last night , petite , ’ he taunted . |