Example sentences of "to [pron] [prep] the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | The record company had been lending it to me for the last six months , but they gave it to me at the London gig as a present because Andy MacDonald — the feller who owns the company — was so into the gig ! |
| 2 | And somebody said to me at the last children 's mass , thank you , you 're the only one that tells us we 're not needed . |
| 3 | I may now have an inkling of what has happened to me over the last few years ; I may have lined up a few suspects , even tentatively put my finger on ‘ who done it ’ ; I may have my own private detectives working alongside the regular police , and we may have made an arrest or two , but the file has not been closed . |
| 4 | I 've just had two presented to me in the last eight months . |
| 5 | I have no memory of anything that happened to me in the last ten years . ’ |
| 6 | These gloomy thoughts have kept coming back to me in the last few days in the national Art Library at the Victoria & Albert Museum , collecting reference material on all those women artists who should have been included in Gravity and Grace : the Changing Condition of Sculpture 1965–1975 at the Hayward Gallery . |
| 7 | ‘ At least 130 people have either rang or written to me in the last few weeks . |
| 8 | The latest is comedian Freddie Starr , who also claims to remember ‘ working my b******* off for next to nothing under the last Labour government ’ ( can you work out what the asterisks stand for ? ) |
| 9 | The current campaign positioning for Johnnie Walker Black has remained true to itself for the last two and a half decades . |
| 10 | Again this was reported to you at the last meeting of this Committee . |
| 11 | The sooner I 've seen your grandmother , the sooner I can say goodbye to you for the last time . |
| 12 | He remained silent , watching her , and her embarrassment grew until in the end she set her glass down with a bang and in desperation said , ‘ So are you going to tell me what 's been happening to you in the last five years ? ’ |
| 13 | As she was saying good-bye to him on the last day , she knew that they would n't see each other again for a long time . |
| 14 | It had come to him over the last year or so that there was only one thing that made him different from other men , and that was the weight he was carrying on his mind . |
| 15 | I certainly feel it was a great delight to him during the last days of his life . ’ |
| 16 | I certainly feel it was a great delight to him during the last days of his life . ’ |
| 17 | Mr Yeltsin stressed , however , that he would fight any attempts to cancel the emergency powers granted to him by the last Congress in October . |
| 18 | When he proposed to her on the last night I think she took him because , having been in her room for seven days , she 'd met nobody else and could n't bear to see her investment wasted . ’ |
| 19 | Friends have been of paramount importance to her in the last ten years and she has not deserted them . |
| 20 | He shot her a grin and she thought of what he 'd been to her in the last week and a half . |
| 21 | Once again she wished she understood what had happened to her in the last three months . |
| 22 | But I did n't show it to her till the last night in case it did n't go down well . |
| 23 | Even though it must have been obvious that he would not hold to it at the last , the threat was enough to make Stormy Petrel veer again to her original course , and though she was trying to increase speed , and was perhaps a little more powerful than Sea Otter , we , on our straight line , could hold her comfortably . |
| 24 | The examination he looks upon as completely separate ; he will attend to it at the last possible moment . |
| 25 | The bantering tone remained in Surere 's voice but he added edge to it for the last word or two . |
| 26 | It 'll be a way to acknowledge the end of an era as well as to acknowledge the people who contributed to it over the last 20 years . |
| 27 | How lovely it would be to find the garden , and see what had happened to it in the last ten years ! |
| 28 | The Parish population , always minimal , had sunk to nil after the last two men had been hung for sheep-stealing . |
| 29 | This short article is to let you know what has happened to us over the last few months . |
| 30 | One of the marvellous things about this record is that there 's so many references to all sorts of things that have happened to us over the last couple of years . |