Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] the last [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Frankly , the only people I can think of who need to go as low as 850 calories a day in order to achieve a pacey weight loss on the F-Plan are small , rather sedentary women , only a few pounds overweight , and those struggling off the last few pounds of excess weight after a prolonged dieting campaign . |
| 2 | Blenching at the last few miles , shivering as sweat and dew ran down their backs , they turned into Donald Gillies 's yard at Camserney sawmill . |
| 3 | He could n't go back now , not after all the planning and scheming of the last few months . |
| 4 | I was looking down at my plate , licking my finger and picking off the last few crumbs , transferring them to my mouth . |
| 5 | With the crews overlapping until the last few minutes of the 4¼-mile race , it had been a gruelling test for all . |
| 6 | Almost everyone has a story to tell about dream incorporation — for instance dreaming about Arctic exploration only to wake up and find that the covers have slipped off and he is freezing cold , or dreaming of bells ringing only to wake up eventually to find that the alarm clock has been clattering for the last few minutes . |
| 7 | Now , however , she sat up in bed and wondered , as she had been wondering for the last few days , what had happened to the spider . |
| 8 | What the hell do you think I 've been talkin' about the last few minutes ? |
| 9 | The buzzard population in the province has been growing over the last few years and is believed to currently stand at 650 . |
| 10 | Then nine tenths of the rubbish they 've been printing for the last few weeks will be seen for what it is . |
| 11 | Cornwall has kept the Championship flag flying for the last few years and has continued to emphasise my own view that such a competition could have an important place . |
| 12 | Her body was already responding , although her mind was still stubbornly clinging to the last few threads of resistance . |
| 13 | Because I am delighted to report that education standards in Wales have been rising over the last few years following the introduction of the national curriculum and our other reforms . |
| 14 | ‘ What I 've been doing in the last few weeks , long overdue , is to match up these various components . |
| 15 | That 's what I 've been doing over the last few days . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ What we have been doing over the last few weekends is exercising our right to search someone if we have a reasonable belief that they are carrying a weapon , ’ said Mr Wood . |
| 17 | Numerous food scares and the dramatic rise in reported cases of food poisoning over the last few years , plus the need to comply with European Community requirements led to the Food Safety Bill , now nearly two years old . |
| 18 | From dealing in the last few chapters with the language of individuals , we now turn , in Chapter 6 , to a discussion of how language is used within Caribbean families in London . |
| 19 | Norman Pinder was creeping through the last few yards of shrubbery before he would reach the window of the small seminar room . |
| 20 | erm he is a member of Vanroch Caerphilly at URC and has done I think he is currently at and erm have felt a gentle call emerging over the last few years and erm all started in Cambridge , that 's about it , that 's all I can say . |
| 21 | It will be a real chance to learn in a practical way many of the things we have been studying over the last few months . |
| 22 | Er thinking about the last few weeks about how many hours a week on average ? |
| 23 | In common with many bass amplification manufacturers , Trace Elliot have been trying over the last few years to build powerful , yet compact bass gear to ease the strain on the poor bass player 's back . |
| 24 | Sleep-drugged figures stumble quietly around their bivouacs , feeling for the last few items of rain-sodden kit to stow in their bergens . |
| 25 | With the considerable degree of replanting in the last few centuries it is possible that the Weald now exhibits a more wooded aspect than at any time since the early medieval period . |
| 26 | A commentary on the effect of Government planning in the last few years is found in the recent report of the Working Party on the Building Industry : ‘ The producers of building materials … found that their assessment of the demand for their goods was liable to be upset by sudden changes of policy which they could not possibly foresee . ’ |
| 27 | Jealousy of her friend had been steadily mounting in the last few months . |
| 28 | The Beaverton , Oregon-based company has been working over the last few months to staff up a new business unit to concentrate on low-end multi-processors , an area it feels offers great potential . |
| 29 | To a degree some of the rise in prices resulted from market makers scrambling to acquire shares to meet investor demands but the Conservative victory has restored confidence in the City , something which has definitely been missing over the last few weeks . |