Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pers pn] [prep] the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said , ‘ No , I have statements , I have witnesses and we 've been surveying you for the last four months . ’ |
| 2 | Largely instrumental , it 's like warm soapy water , soothing and enveloping you in the last bath of the day . |
| 3 | Harvey was there in a red-coat uniform , smiling and doing his neat little dances and pretending to drop plates and saving them at the last minute , and the girls were saying ‘ Ooo ’ and slyly studying each other 's hairdos and shoes . |
| 4 | I have you and all at your magazine to thank for your support , but listening to the troubles of fishkeepers on the telephone and when meeting them over the last twelve months I am left in no doubt that there is a vast array of undetectable contaminants in our tapwater , apart from just chlorine , which consistently depress fish condition and render them less able to resist stress and infection . |
| 5 | The plan is foiled but Magwitch escapes the gallows by dying in hospital , with Pip tending him to the last . |
| 6 | That was it until handover on Monday , which she hoped would be enough time to shake off the cold that had been dogging her for the last couple of days . |
| 7 | The BBC 's film review programme is 21 years old today — and Barry , 59 , has been presenting it for the last 20 . |
| 8 | Dozzell said : ‘ I thought about wearing it for the last few minutes , but I did n't think it would go down too well . |
| 9 | And on sex he notes : ‘ The older women are best because they always think they may be doing it for the last time . ’ |
| 10 | And on sex he notes : ‘ The older women are best because they always think they may be doing it for the last time . ’ |
| 11 | We came very close to doing it at the last election . |
| 12 | Hundreds of soldiers doing it after the last war — and airmen . |
| 13 | Though he was more like his old self , many suspected they were seeing him for the last time . |
| 14 | But I 've not been taking them for the last week . |
| 15 | He 's been hiding me for the last couple of days . ’ |
| 16 | At the beginning of this erm programme he admitted that we had an excellent education service in Oxfordshire , and he 's now , having taken no part in managing it for the last five years , he is now claiming that in fact it 's due to what happened before . |
| 17 | Women who were currently taking the pill or who had stopped taking it in the last 12 months had a significantly lower rate of endometriosis than those who had stopped for longer periods . |
| 18 | Well have they withdrawn one of their submissions to South Oxfordshire that they 've tried to claim that they were using it over the last twelve years and it has now been withdrawn because they know very well that their claim to South Oxfordshire can not be justified about the use . |
| 19 | We thank Raymond and his bride Koti for not cancelling us at the last minute , and allowing BBC Good Food to share in their excitement . |
| 20 | Attempting to duck the consequences of hard decisions by leaving them to the last possible minute or by creating distance through solely informing parents by letter places the initiative in the hands of others . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'm telling you for the last time , Harvey . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'm telling you for the last time , Liz , get up and let's go home . |
| 23 | She stood up and looked round the room as though she were leaving it for the last time . |
| 24 | Suzanne Greenhill , 20 , had been blindfolded — depriving her of the last sense she could have used to identify the attacker — and her underwear had been stuffed in her mouth . |