Example sentences of "you [verb] [prep] the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | I agree with everything you 've said until you got to the last bit . |
| 2 | ‘ How did you answer about the last — about presenting me to him ? ’ |
| 3 | How many gigs have you missed in the last few months ? ’ |
| 4 | Which of the other items on this list if any , have you collected in the last year ? |
| 5 | ‘ If you 're so sure , what would you do on the last day of your life ? ’ |
| 6 | to write to the Health and Safety Executive asking for a report on their findings of their investigation into the causes of the explosion , and erm after several letters , if you recall at the last meeting I was asked to write to MPs and so forth . |
| 7 | If you look at the last self-portraits , then you can see … |
| 8 | ‘ And I 've asked you to cover for the last half-hour — that was selfish of me . ’ |
| 9 | And which have you used during the last year ? |
| 10 | You know you had to put how many operations have you had in the last ten years and have are you er receiving any treatment and all that bloody blah blah blah . |
| 11 | What you will think of it , I suspect , depends on your zodiac sign or whether you blubbed through the last few minutes of Peter Weir 's Dead Poets Society . |
| 12 | If you remember at the last two sessions we 've talked about signs and symbols . |
| 13 | Er , yes , this is a follow up erm , if you remember at the last full council meeting , we recorded er proceedings for the er British Corpus , is it , Town Clerk ? |
| 14 | Was it almost er All or or most of the total amount you spent in the last year , about half or less than half the total ? |
| 15 | I 'm thinking of buying myself some ice skates , I 've been promising myself those , just , you know over the last few years when we have had a , just a bit , mind you there was one year about six years ago were n't it , where we were |
| 16 | well you know over the last few weeks we know that er |
| 17 | Erm y'know erm it 's also erm perhaps interesting the way things have er have shifted you know in the last decade or so , like that thing that erm used to be on in the seventies , It Ai n't Half Hot Mum , with um a number of people pretending to be Indians and and exhibiting all the stereotypes y'know it ai n't half racist mum is probably more erm er in fact there was a book called It Ai n't Half Racist Mum that er Leicester University library had er y'know going on about exactly that you know the sort of y'know racism of comedy . |
| 18 | The facts you discovered in the last paragraph are very important and should be learnt . |
| 19 | I have not forgotten that strange and distant glimmer on your face after you tipped over the last glass . ’ |
| 20 | Mr Smith 's warning coincided with a call by Ken Livingstone , the Labour MP for Brent East , who said on London Weekend Television 's The Walden Interview : ‘ You can be miles ahead in the polls , but when you get to the last three weeks , people think , ‘ Can I afford a Labour government ? ’ |
| 21 | If you decide on the last — and best — option , she suggests you : |
| 22 | Miracle Squares I think there 's a lot of thought gone into it you know , it ca n't be easy to re er to , to just dream up a game erm , I like the one about you go to the last supper and the waiter spills soup on your trousers , the waiter , ha tell you else about the Marx brothers an'all , the waiter is er the king of Snowdonia and it 's Groucho Marx , the , they 've got this massive hall , and er these big steps leading down into it you know and as , as they 're coming in there 's somebody at the top and Ann says who 's , who 's walking in and they walk down the stairs you know and Mr and Mrs and the king has you know and he says oh the king Snowdonia is about to arrive , he should be here any minute now , he should be here dead on this time you know , he gets these big fanfare trumpets up da , da , da , da , the king of Snowdonia , and there 's nothing and all of a sudden it flashes to Groucho Marx and then he 's in bed with |
| 23 | ‘ That is when you will discover if all those decisions you took during the last three years were the right ones . |
| 24 | WHAT YOU THINK ABOUT THE LAST SEVEN DAYS |
| 25 | When Gandalf says to Frodo of his wound on Weathertop , ‘ your heart was not touched , and only your shoulder was pierced ; and that was because you resisted to the last ’ , he may be making a moral statement ( Frodo was rewarded ) or a practical one ( he dodged , called out , struck back , put off the Ringwraith 's aim ) . |
| 26 | Did you come to the last history meeting |
| 27 | Consider , for example , the question ‘ Which textbooks have you read in the last six months ? ’ . |