Example sentences of "[v-ing] [art] last few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Practically sprinting the last few yards to the cottage , he pushed inside and dumped her belongings on the kitchen table before dashing out again and after the Land Rover as it groaned and grunted its way up the track to the colonel 's house , presumably driven by the garage mechanic . |
| 2 | He moved slightly in the bed , and felt the warm , naked body beside him and smiled , remembering the last few hours . |
| 3 | A gush of tears took her by surprise , swamping the last few words . |
| 4 | For the browsers there is Golf : The Golden Years , a pictorial anthology by Sarah Baddiel celebrating the last few years of the 19th century and the first 40 or so of the 20th . |
| 5 | Heart pounding , Polly stumbled one-handed down the companionway and dumped mugs , flask , and the plate containing the last few sandwiches in the nearer sink . |
| 6 | Trent waited for a squall to hit , then moved fast , dropping to the ground and crawling the last few yards . |
| 7 | Jenny sensed she was losing a friend , or rather , cutting the last few strands which held their friendship together . |
| 8 | It will certainly be a dramatic change of scenery after spending the last few weeks in the reserves . ’ |
| 9 | If he knew how old she was he might want her to tell him what she had been doing the last few years . |
| 10 | As I said , he certainly has nt been alone in fading the last few games — and he does do the work to begin with , so maybe has more right to fade . |
| 11 | I have been reading the last few pages and I think they are true and beautiful and just , recompense enough for the cold gloom of this untidy and lonely room . |
| 12 | Descending the last few stairs , she turned on her elegantly shod heel , and walked off towards the kitchen . |
| 13 | For some reason , she was finding the last few pages difficult to sort out . |
| 14 | If you encounter such words , practise them systematically by a ) tapping the rhythm , b ) mimicking the last few syllables and then gradually building up to the beginning of the word , c ) putting the long word in different position on a series of sentences and practising them , like in following example : Word stress is often modified when the word occurs in a sentence . |