Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] for [art] last " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd trusted for the last time . |
| 2 | He 'd come half past seven to eight to pay us as we came to work , to hand us the money we 'd earnt for the last week , always keeping about three days in hand . |
| 3 | Bush droned on about good and evil , right and wrong , Hitler , Munich , appeasement , using all the same phrases that most of us thought we had heard for the last time , after the revolutions of 1989 . |
| 4 | The fields and clouds were the same as those I had seen for the last half hour . |
| 5 | Mr McQuaker said he had just left work at the Haughton Road service station at 9pm as he had done for the last 25 years when the youths pounced . |
| 6 | Michael Sibele had known for the last two days why the gang of workmen was busy outside the main gates : repairing a burst mains pipe . |
| 7 | Whitely was all he knew and had known for the last sixteen years . |
| 8 | Neither man had spoken for the last few minutes . |
| 9 | He mounted the horse he had led for the last hour or so and walked it cautiously down into Buttermere which he entered with the utter conviction that he had been there before . |
| 10 | Nursing staff at the famous Beeson Ward had hoped for a last minute reprieve , but the Health Authority stuck by its decision to close down the only ward in the country where nurses , not doctors , have the responsibility for admitting and discharging patients . |
| 11 | In 1983 a hairy snail was discovered in the Thames marshes near Kew , where its ancestors had lived for the last 10,000 years . |