Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [prep] [art] last " in BNC.
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1 | You find yourself hanging on to every last minute together . ’ |
2 | THE danger of trying to limp to safety on goalless draws was graphically illustrated by Coventry 's last-gasp defeat which could have them hanging on to the last day of the season before knowing their fate . |
3 | Coventry slumped to a last-gasp 1–0 defeat at Notts County which could have them hanging on to the last day of the season before knowing their fate . |
4 | Not by someone else stepping in at the last moment . |
5 | Mum is singing along with the last hymn . |
6 | Now I think it 's a bit rich t to slam the Liberals for walking out on the last debate because the Tories did n't attend the Health Trust Select Committee which Council set up . |
7 | The stolen cars have been occurring now over the last year . |
8 | They seemed to have everything in command at Pickie on Saturday , but let the BLI come storming back over the last few ends to win on three of the four rinks . |
9 | What had been happening financially over the last five or six years is unclear but in 1932 the situation was regarded as ‘ serious ’ and it was to continue so ( as with other Clubs in the Depression ) until the late 1930's . |
10 | I 'm 32 and have been climbing seriously for the last 18 years , which helped me get accepted . |
11 | Hell 's teeth , baby — we 've been living together for the last two years or more . ’ |
12 | Some 44 per cent of the 65 advertisers interviewed saw the economy picking up in the last quarter of this year at the earliest , and a further 35 per cent did not envisage an improvement until 1993 . |
13 | The bedsides of the dying were therefore thronged , not only by pastors saying prayers , but also by relatives and friends , listening attentively for a last instructive word or , in the case of a sinner , for some hopeful indication that all was not lost . |
14 | The Devil , wriggling out of the last of his knitted tail , wiped the shiny grease off his face and neck before strolling over . |
15 | Looking back to the last war , I can clearly remember arriving at Abbeydale Council School in Sheffield to find it badly damaged by a bomb , having to transfer temporarily to Lowfields and Ann 's Road Schools and then to ’ home service ’ , which was simply a teacher in charge of a dozen or so kids in somebody 's front room . |
16 | Looking back over the last two years , portraits and townscapes , in Berlin or in other locations , predominate . |
17 | Looking back over the last 19 years he said : ‘ Having had the opportunity to set up and develop the education service in Lothian has been enormously challenging and satisfying and I believe it is an education service of good quality with many forward-looking policies now established . |
18 | I am especially pleased to welcome JCI back as a shareholder , a position they held from 1918 until 1979 , cementing the close relationship between our two companies dating back to the last century . |
19 | Areas found to be at risk include ancient woodlands dating back to the last ice age , internationally rare lowland heaths , meadows and marshes containing many rare species of plants , flowers , animals , birds and insects . |
20 | O7 ppm although naturally high concentrations of mercury have been found in a number of locations , including Lake Windermere where mud dating back to the last century contains 0.7 ppm . ’ |
21 | I have started divorce proceedings , as we have been living apart for the last two months , but now he is pleading with me to take him back . |
22 | I have started divorce proceedings , as we have been living apart for the last two months , but now he is pleading with me to take him back . |
23 | Going on to the last lap Dunlop had matters well in hand but further down the field behind McCallen there was drama when Alan Patterson , who had been in third place and going well , suddenly shot through the final bend and took the wrong road for the second time today losing his chance of a place . |
24 | The whiplash dynamics of Batman Returns represent the culmination of a process that has been going on for the last 15 years . |
25 | We 've actually had a recycling paper project going on over the last couple of months , which made paper out of shredded newsprint and then made Christmas cards out of them . |
26 | There I mean there was nothing like the bombing that 's been going on , well , at least that 's what we 're told , the bombing that 's been going on over the last twenty four , forty eight hours of Baghdad for instance . |
27 | What 's sort of going on since the last time I interviewed you . |
28 | He 'd seen a bit of that kind of thing going on in the last hospital he was in . |
29 | Tamar had allowed Victoria to stay up late to watch the leading in of the last load , which was a ritual joined in by all the estate workers . |
30 | People were coming out from Palm Sunday Mass at the church of Ognissanti , pausing to chat to families going in to the last service and then passing under his window carrying sprays of olive leaves . |