Example sentences of "be [v-ing] the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | The three are singing the last bars of a song . |
| 2 | I 've er I 've only just I 've only been coughing the last couple of days , but |
| 3 | the first bit yeah you 're remembering the last bit when you 're remembering that you 've forgot the first bit . |
| 4 | DO N'T scoff at Skodas , they 're having the last laugh . |
| 5 | No , well , he , you know , just at the end when they 're giving the last news just before nine o'clock |
| 6 | so I 'm actually taking the first three weeks and you 're taking the last |
| 7 | A schoolboy has been recalling the last minutes of a ski-lift crash in which his step brother died . |
| 8 | aye , you see , that 's why so it meant that we have been going the last week in each month , er each second month |
| 9 | If he knew how old she was he might want her to tell him what she had been doing the last few years . |
| 10 | They fail to appreciate that all elderly people are constantly aware that they are approaching the last great event in their lives : their own death . |
| 11 | Plans by the Spanish government to irrigate large areas of steppe plain , with the aid of EC funding , are threatening the last European stronghold of the great bustard , together with 14 other birds protected by the EC Wild Birds directive . |
| 12 | Must be entering the last lap . ’ |
| 13 | Today 's obsession with preventing another round of hostile takeovers is like the habit of generals always to be fighting the last war . |
| 14 | At this late stage , with the time before 1 January as easy to count in days as in weeks , businesses should now be obtaining the last elements of these details . |
| 15 | Reuben Boll had been taking the last part of his annual leave . |
| 16 | I have been reading the last few pages and I think they are true and beautiful and just , recompense enough for the cold gloom of this untidy and lonely room . |
| 17 | ‘ No , I 've been freelancing the last couple of years . ’ |
| 18 | It is in these past two weeks that Faldo has been putting the last pieces into place . |
| 19 | This morning at breakfast we were smoking the last two . |
| 20 | They were passing the last of the houses now . |
| 21 | It seemed a long way away but before we knew it we were paying the last of the deposits . |
| 22 | Men , I know , talk of such things with eagerness , with a little contempt ; it is as if they were describing the last meal they had , course by course . |
| 23 | They were saying the last time I heard them saying anything he was sort of going |
| 24 | AS YOU WERE reading the last issue of Wood News with your feet up and drinking a cup of hot coffee , John Hill , coupling machine operator at Fireater , was running through the cold , wet weather of Great Yarmouth in training for the London marathon . |
| 25 | In April 1945 , as the partisans and Allies were freeing the last parts of northern Italy , Mussolini was smuggled out of Milan by the Germans . |
| 26 | What Summerchild is doing , now he has someone to do it for , is living the last dozen years of his life , which have gone by without his quite taking them in . |
| 27 | HOUSEWIFE Dorothy Gregg is swapping the Last Of The Summer Wine for a bit of peace — on the Costa Eldorado . |
| 28 | Ian Pardoe , a Herefordshire fruit farmer , is taking the last of his apples to the market . |
| 29 | Just as Howard is scraping the last spoonful of apple crumble out of the bowl , a thought strikes him . |
| 30 | He was eating the last of the pie with gusto . |