Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] [art] last [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Palacio has won the last two , but I doubt whether he has much ambition left to extend McMillan past the eighth round . |
| 2 | Reid has won the last two Ulster rounds in the series at Temple and the Mid-Antrim 150 while James Courtney sneaked in to take the round at Dundalk . |
| 3 | What makes Ross Perot think that he can get a handle on the US budget deficit that has defeated the last two administrations ? |
| 4 | Allen , who has missed the last four games , said : ‘ I must admit I was a little concerned and went to see the same specialist that did the operation on my groin before . |
| 5 | Anderton , who has yet to score in the League , has missed the last five matches in which Spurs have extended an unbeaten run to seven games while beating the likes of Liverpool and Blackburn . |
| 6 | Saints ’ coach Mike McClennan also hopes Kiwi George Mann , who has missed the last five matches with a back injury , will be fit to resume . |
| 7 | Mardenborough , who has missed the last three games with a medial ligament injury , could be sidelined again after he pulled out of Wednesday 's reserve game at the last minute . |
| 8 | It has leaped the last few leagues in one bound ( great stuff ) , and lands smack BANG on the Cathedral roof ( or thereabouts ) . |
| 9 | On to golf now and Colin Montgomerie has reached the last four of the Toyota World Matchplay at Wentworth . |
| 10 | Evelyn Lachennes widow of a British war-time spy , Pierre Lachennes has devoted the last ten years to studying the effects of chemical weapons on civilian populations wherever they 've been used . |
| 11 | A novelist I know has devoted the last 20 years to writing stuff that is completely impossible to film , with the result that he has not been published for some time . |
| 12 | Instead , she has spent the last two years working on a book chronicling Basque life through its kitchens and markets . |
| 13 | It started life as a graduation film and he has spent the last two years finishing it . |
| 14 | Britain has spent the last 100 years fighting against the facts of German power : indeed our modern national identity has to a great extent been forged in the fires of the great conflict with Germany while our sense of our moral worth rests in part on our role in the defeat of Nazism . |
| 15 | A friend of mine in her late thirties has spent the last five years building up a successful business . |
| 16 | Dr Mitchell has spent the last five months getting people to write to the Royal Mail Stamp Programme Manager in London to lobby for a set of stamps honouring his father 's work . |
| 17 | The Gloucestershire company has spent the last five years building up an export market in America with department stores now taking their products . |
| 18 | She has spent the last 18 months researching and writing the kind of cookbook which brings all the old fun and the sheer sensual pleasure back into cooking — and eating . |
| 19 | Quintus has spent the last 18 months developing similar customised solutions for a clutch of customers including Intel Corp , HaL Systems , Exxon Corp and Hewlett-Packard which is setting up a worldwide internal help desk with its software . |
| 20 | Mr Stephenson said he sympathises with Det Supt Keith Readman , who has spent the last 18 months trying trace Mrs Heron 's killer . |
| 21 | Reportedly UI has spent the last six months explaining its vision to these companies ( UX No 391 ) . |
| 22 | The Scottish Gallery has an exhibition of paintings by Roderick Carmichael , an Edinburgh-born artist who has spent the last 10 years in Australia . |
| 23 | The A 38 , David Buss has spent the last 20 years working at different places along the road that join Nottingham and Cornwall . |
| 24 | The A 38 , David Buss has spent the last 20 years working at different places along the road that joins Nottingham and Cornwall . |
| 25 | UK fourth-generation language company Cyberscience Plc , of Hoddesdon , Herts , has spent the last three years making its transition from proprietary Data General technology over to open systems , and now reports that the majority of its sales are for Unix-based systems . |
| 26 | Vice president of development , Saiid Zarrabian , admits the company has spent the last three years ‘ in perpetual transition , desperately trying to find out what it is good at … in doing this the company has lost time and money trying to make good the things it started . ’ |
| 27 | Mr Roger Curtis , a Darlington businessman , has spent the last three years having steel chair frames delivered to his Ridsdale Street base from Lancashire . |
| 28 | VIA also has to pay heavily to use the tracks and it is almost universally agreed that CP in particular has spent the last 12 years over-charging and trying to find ways of clearing the passenger trains from the path of its lucrative freights . |
| 29 | A quiet , bespectacled and sceptical American , Robert Morris , has spent the last few terms testing ‘ respondents ’ ( the academics prefer this term to psychic , witch-doctor , shaman or whoever else they are analysing ) . |
| 30 | Mr Rushdie has spent the last few months in Helsinki , Finland , completing a new book . |