Example sentences of "[v-ing] for the last [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | CHRISTO VAN RENSBURG , one of the world 's leading doubles players , went on court at the Albert Hall yesterday believing he would be competing for the last time in the official season-ending doubles championship . |
| 2 | CHRISTO VAN RENSBURG , one of the world 's leading doubles players , went on court at the Albert Hall yesterday believing he would be competing for the last time in the official season-ending doubles championship . |
| 3 | Harry Holmes senior was competing for the last time , having raced thirty-seven times between 1933 and 1969 . |
| 4 | Following a last salute to all old friends and listeners everywhere , we finished with that popular cowboy dirge , ‘ I 'm Headin' for the Last Round-Up ! ’ |
| 5 | The fact was that Algy had been living for the last year with a working-class architect called Len in a basement flat in Maida Vale . |
| 6 | While waiting , she gazed solemnly at the sinister Bridge of Sighs a few yards away and thought of the prisoners who 'd gazed out of its thickly grilled windows , looking for the last time on the beauties of Venice before they were incarcerated — or executed for causing the displeasure of powerful nobles . |
| 7 | It could be the day you deleted the thesis you 'd been writing for the last year , or the time the system crashed while you were giving a presentation in front of a thousand people . |
| 8 | racing for the last time this season are swindon speedway … it 's the riders championship there on Sunday … a meeting not to be missed |
| 9 | Then she turned again and started to walk away , waiting for the last stone to strike her . |
| 10 | As we sat waiting for the last half-hour to grind away , the young Sheikh lifted the phone and telephoned his grandmother — his mother 's mother , not Sheikha Grandmother , who was still on her visit to her daughter . |
| 11 | As I write , he nods down at me from the wall beside my desk ; shining brass-reel in place , cast and flies still ready for action , waiting for the last trumpet to sound . |
| 12 | ‘ What the ‘ ell do you think we 've been doin' for the last hour ? ’ asked Tommy . |
| 13 | He had borrowed it from a fellow inmate of the lodging house in Kennington where he had been staying for the last week . |
| 14 | Fakrid 's heavy eyelids were closing for the last time . |
| 15 | What TC said , most people have been saying for the last couple of seasons . |
| 16 | Mike noticed a group of heavy gamblers , most of them Greek , move towards the baccarat room , where the Sultan of Rupolei had been losing for the last hour . |
| 17 | Well , many thanks indeed for fighting for the last hour on this programme . |
| 18 | THE DEATH OF TWO NORTH WEST INSTITUTIONS HAS CAUSED SADNESS WITH A PIT SHUTTING AND A FAMOUS STORE 'S TILLS RINGING FOR THE LAST TIME |
| 19 | Crossing for the last time that stretch of dusty plain which lay between Krishnapur and the railhead , the Collector experienced more strongly than ever before the vastness of India ; he realized then , because of the widening perspective , what a small affair the siege of Krishnapur had been , how unimportant , how devoid of significance . |