Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is the menu as recorded by the Colonel and solemnly consumed down to the last friandise : |
| 2 | What has been er what has been pleasing is that a n a number of the people who 've come in on the last two or three years or so er are younger people , people in their er late teens or twenties . |
| 3 | Then Beryl went on to outline a couple of job offers that had come in within the last few days . |
| 4 | This is the second new recording of Kismet to have come along in the last couple of years . |
| 5 | The doctor was too young to have come over in the last war . |
| 6 | Well the list has certainly took off over the last few days . |
| 7 | Some windows were still boarded up after the last attack . |
| 8 | ‘ But my advice is not to panic and to wait and see how many tickets can be picked up at the last minute . ’ |
| 9 | Although things have picked up in the last six months , the work is more likely to be restructuring , rights issues or corporate rescues . |
| 10 | Since a few ladies who had been at the tea would also be at the committee meeting , and , anyway , Boyd had messed up her best black afternoon dress , she wore now a pretty gown in green wool which she had picked up in the last sale at Eaton 's . |
| 11 | ( Research and development split between the two lines — currently 50–50 — will soon tip the balance in favour of AViiON , since three years ' worth of products are expected to be squeezed out of the last round of investment in the proprietary line . ) |
| 12 | As well as contributing to Oslobodjenje Camo is editor-in-chief of Nedjelja , a weekly magazine published by the same company , but which has n't come out for the last three months . |
| 13 | The Dorset , Devon and Cornwall holiday areas benefited from the good summer weather and from the upgrading of pubs carried out over the last few years . |
| 14 | The collection comes from almost fifty digs carried out over the last twenty years . |
| 15 | The collection comes from almost fifty digs carried out over the last twenty years . |
| 16 | For those who prefer scientific evidence for the effects of essential oils on the mind , let me draw your attention to some experiments carried out in the last ten years by John Steele ( an American research worker ) and Maxwell Cade , a British biophysicist . |
| 17 | As Area Manager Martin Ellis said ‘ Adele has accomplished a great deal in her current position of Area Field Biologist , not least in her QA work carried out in the last two years , her Mouse-Alert sales and the careful co-ordination of Sentinel contracts ’ . |
| 18 | The operation is one of hundreds that have been carried out in the last few years by keyhole surgery . |
| 19 | This is not to undervalue the change in judicial thinking which has come about in the last 30 years . |
| 20 | But wherever they end up , there 's a good chance they 'll be moved on again in the next few weeks — 28 groups have been moved on in the last 18 months and the County Council is moving on another group from Kirtlington , north of Oxford tomorrow . |
| 21 | Chris , Marius and the Swiss who had come from Lille were here ; Alex had been turned down at the last moment on a medical detail . |
| 22 | She had moved across the courtyard , flagstone by flagstone , to cheat the shadow ; now she was boxed in to the last corner of light . |
| 23 | Before the surrounding land was built over in the last century and subsequently , you could have seen it from miles away in every direction . |
| 24 | Volkov had been written off for the last five years . |
| 25 | It is a wonderful feeling to be able to experience the strength , suppleness and stamina that you have built up over the last three weeks . |
| 26 | Castle continues to value video copyrights on a historical cost basis because its catalogue has only been built up over the last two or three years and there is less earnings experience on which to base a valuation . |
| 27 | The small but very fine collection of Old Master paintings , drawings and works of art had been built up over the last decade on the encouragement and advice of Metropolitan Museum curators . |
| 28 | Building in opportunities for student progression is one of these , so that special courses , very necessarily built up over the last 15 years , do not become an end in themselves but rather a means towards mainstream education and training . |
| 29 | It 's just built up over the last coupla years really . |
| 30 | Whatever happened , the Virgin Group was secure , but the airline , 500 jobs , everything that had been built up over the last eighteen months , was suddenly in jeopardy through no fault of anyone at Virgin . |