Example sentences of "of [pron] [prep] the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I felt I might have passed the pair in front of me on the last lap but what was the point , I had no chance of winning and this is a tough circuit . ’ |
| 2 | Gradually Elizabeth and I got to know each other ; Elizabeth already knew something of me from The Last Enchantments . |
| 3 | They secured eight but also lost three wickets including two run outs , one of them off the last ball . |
| 4 | ‘ We get a lot of donations from relatives and friends of people we have nursed here and we have kept a record of them over the last few years , ’ said Mrs Deidre Shaw , administrator for the appeal . |
| 5 | Others are saying , a lot of them for the last few years have been saying , this is ridiculous . |
| 6 | We read , for instance , that Spalding ‘ has now a very neat and generally modern appearance , having more than doubled its population and buildings since 1811 , and most of its ancient houses and public buildings have been rebuilt ; many of them during the last twenty-five years ’ . |
| 7 | We have studied the sediment from the bottom of Loch Ness and Loch Morar to discover whether the sea entered either of them after the last ice age . |
| 8 | " Then I must have applied to half of them in the last four years . " |
| 9 | So the paper you 've got in front of you from the last meeting then . |
| 10 | He had grown fond of her in the last few days . |
| 11 | Thank god he s having more shots now too — that s been my only criticism of him over the last year , now he s looking to shoot more , and scoring ! |
| 12 | I do n't know exactly how long , but I 've been aware of it for the last eighteen months . |
| 13 | He did quite well out of it during the last year . |
| 14 | Had Louis been inclined to forget the destiny his father had mapped out for him , he would have been forcefully reminded of it in the last decade of his reign , when his chief adviser was Suger , abbot of St Denis between 1122 and 1151 , a man of humble birth consumed by a passionate devotion to the cause of monarchy in the Carolingian mould . |