Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pers pn] [prep] the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , for the third time this season , Wantage could not hold on to a lead given them in the last five minutes , and allowed Andy Martin to shoot home for the equaliser for Bicester . |
| 2 | The norw. team who looked sure to qualify have vasted it in the last two games by loosing away and have no chance to qualify . |
| 3 | What 's really moved me over the last three or four years , as AIDS has become a major threat in this country , and especially since spring 1985 with the rising public hysteria about it , is that it 's brought out tremendous reserves of strength in lesbians and gay men which show the importance of the achievements of the previous fifteen years . |
| 4 | She had hardly seen him over the last months . |
| 5 | Have you done it in the last sort of few weeks ? |
| 6 | yeah , I 've seen it in the last day or two |
| 7 | ‘ I represent about 12 players at Tottenham Hotspur , and they 've all told me in the last couple of days that they certainly will put in for transfers and leave Tottenham Hotspur . ’ |
| 8 | What has frankly surprised me about the last decade is the way in which social scientists who make no claim to a Christian profession have been talking openly about the relevance of religious values to our current economic problems in the Western world . |
| 9 | He had had no private income , pension , or — which had surprised me in the last few years — life insurance . |
| 10 | Persistent colds , coughs and a temperature have dogged her for the last year . |
| 11 | That stubbornness had got him through the last four years , but he had finally had to admit that walking out on his wife had been the biggest mistake of his life . |
| 12 | Years ago I used to think this was a fun sport but the reason for thinking this has escaped me for the last 2 weeks . |
| 13 | Subconsciously he must have been expecting something like this : his first reaction was not surprise but an intensification of the dull misery which had enveloped him for the last 24 hours . |
| 14 | Causes of change are many — the government , the unions , OPEC , the Argentines , company mergers , new brooms , technological change , recession , unemployment , legislation , EEC — you name it , you 've experienced it in the last few years . |
| 15 | ‘ How much money have you given him in the last three weeks ? ’ |
| 16 | Walking slowly up and down the old stone terrace , Laura tried to empty her mind — to banish the sick feelings of fear and apprehension which had haunted her during the last week . |
| 17 | As long as er I keep finding places that I have n't , you know thi this is leaving it to the la I have n't left it till the last minute , but all las la you know I keep looking at it and thinking well |
| 18 | My fortune was denied you at the last , and that was the spur . |
| 19 | Miss Coldharbour had recruited her at the last moment to help serve supper for Canon Wheeler 's guests who included the Bishop and the Earl of Medewich and Markham . |
| 20 | With surprise , Juliet realised he was referring to his hospital episode , when she had nursed him for the last two weeks of his stay . |
| 21 | I 've managed it for the last four years , have n't I ? ’ |