Example sentences of "i [prep] the last " in BNC.
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1 | Tony finds several packets of banana custard that is hot and sweet ; it tastes bloody awful and neither Tony nor I like it , none the less he fights me for the last helping . |
2 | Years ago I used to think this was a fun sport but the reason for thinking this has escaped me for the last 2 weeks . |
3 | 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 ! |
4 | Max joined me for the last nine of my eighteen-months ' stint in Sun City . |
5 | He 's been hiding me for the last couple of days . ’ |
6 | Bessie kissed me for the last time as I held tightly to her . |
7 | You 've put up with me for the last ten days . ’ |
8 | In October 1869 he wrote to Rohde : a whole lot of aesthetic problems and answers have been bubbling inside me for the last few years … of course , Wagner is in a very pregnant sense beneficial , especially as , an example incomprehensible on the basis of traditional aesthetics … ; and a few months later he was proclaiming to another correspondent a " marvellously new and changed … |
9 | Erm and if it 's not it 's er I 'm not going to deny the fact that some people say you know this has been good for me for the last eighteen months erm I 'm er I 'm used to being self employed I 'm going to stay that way but I 'm looking at other avenues . |
10 | He would meet me off the last train … . |
11 | What has frankly surprised me about the last decade is the way in which social scientists who make no claim to a Christian profession have been talking openly about the relevance of religious values to our current economic problems in the Western world . |
12 | The average Council Tax payer , the council tax ca n't be more than , around four percent erm which reminds me of the last miracle budget we had , ninety eighty nine I think it was , again a Labour budget which I think was three point nine per cent increase then and the lowest rate of increase for twenty years erm and the highest level of growth erm . |
13 | Towards the end of ‘ Stately As a Galleon ’ I get cramp in both feet and they curl up under me like the last Empress 's fingernails and stay cramped through waltzing finale , curtain calls and notes from director , friends and husband . |
14 | And that got me into the last three so I had to do it all again at the Barbican which I think was to see if I could fill that theatre with enough presence and vocal range . |
15 | He had had no private income , pension , or — which had surprised me in the last few years — life insurance . |
16 | She pretty well knew how things had stood between Father and me in the last few years . |
17 | I 've just had two presented to me in the last eight months . |
18 | I have no memory of anything that happened to me in the last ten years . ’ |
19 | 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 . |
20 | ‘ At least 130 people have either rang or written to me in the last few weeks . |
21 | ‘ I represent about 12 players at Tottenham Hotspur , and they 've all told me in the last couple of days that they certainly will put in for transfers and leave Tottenham Hotspur . ’ |
22 | You still owe me from the last time . |
23 | Gradually Elizabeth and I got to know each other ; Elizabeth already knew something of me from The Last Enchantments . |
24 | This leads me to the last determinant of transmission teaching I want to explore here : that of teacher isolation . |
25 | That leads me to the last question , ground ( 7 ) . |
26 | If I cry , the Monster cries — more piteously , longer , louder — not because it is sad , of course not , never out of sorrow or pity , no , merely because Jimbo has cried and thereby been noticed , for his self These scraps of attention the Monster would take from me to the last smile , the last nod , the last little pat on the head . |
27 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
28 | Fortunately I do n't have to do the really dangerous stuff , buteven backstage in the wings I did have a few things falling about me on the last day in Manchester . |
29 | 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 . |
30 | What 's really moved me over the last three or four years , as AIDS has become a major threat in this country , and especially since spring 1985 with the rising public hysteria about it , is that it 's brought out tremendous reserves of strength in lesbians and gay men which show the importance of the achievements of the previous fifteen years . |