Example sentences of "do [prep] the last " in BNC.
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| 31 | a police officer , what 's he been doing for the last |
| 32 | ‘ What I 've been doing in the last few weeks , long overdue , is to match up these various components . |
| 33 | ‘ Now we 'll begin again , ’ said the CEO , ‘ and we will bury all the thinking we were doing in the last meeting and approach everything from a new angle . |
| 34 | What 've you been doing in the last five months that 's put on the weight ? |
| 35 | Oh knowing your Dad , doing on the last minute ! |
| 36 | ‘ When the police told me everything I had been doing over the last month it totally freaked me out . ’ |
| 37 | That 's what I 've been doing over the last few days . ’ |
| 38 | and MOS equipment , which again , we we 've b successfully been doing over the last two or three years . |
| 39 | ‘ What we have been doing over the last few weekends is exercising our right to search someone if we have a reasonable belief that they are carrying a weapon , ’ said Mr Wood . |
| 40 | What it means for the homes is that they 're going to have to take a what we 've been doing over the last two or three years is gradually improving the staffing levels in our elderly people 's homes , because the dependency levels in those homes are getting very high . |
| 41 | The feeling was that Richards should have declared before he did as the last hour 's batting produced few runs , but when England set about playing out time , Larkins , having gone first ball in the first innings , lasted only one more this time . |
| 42 | to have a course , but if the crew on that particular ship mutinies , as they did during the last er Shadow Cabinet , then you 're in trouble , are n't you ? |
| 43 | As I understand it the Cleveland structure plan proposes the same number of dwellings for erm its next period which happens to be fourteen years , as it did for the last fourteen of the of the previous structure plan , fifteen thousand seven hundred . |
| 44 | Thinking it was probably one of the maids , she hastily did up the last button and went to open it . |
| 45 | Only if the burden becomes insupportable — or increases too abruptly — do electors seriously complain ( as they did in the last days of the 1964 and 1974 Labour governments ) . |
| 46 | Though they are contemptuously referred to as ‘ page turners ’ , they are nevertheless texts and can engage the attention of those reading them , even developing patterns of thought which may affect the real world , as Disraeli 's novels did in the last century . |
| 47 | But again they picked a team of boys , as they did in the last two World Cups . |
| 48 | Let it be supposed that according to the usual methods of borrowing and funding , the Public Debts , during the present war , should encrease to no greater degree than they did in the last war ; which was about 30 millions : And let it be supposed , according to past experience , that in ten or twelve years after a peace ; we should be plunged into a fresh war ; which might encrease the debts of the nation 30 millions more , and that afterwards we should have another breathing time of ten or twelve years , and that according to custom a third war should ensue , no less expensive than each of the former two ; these three wars will swell the national debts to the amount of 170 millions , and that in little more than fifty years . |
| 49 | Yes that would include integrated adequately funded trans public transport system as it did in the last . |
| 50 | By way of final illustration , we can apply Nozick 's refutation to Descartes ' sceptical argument about dreaming , and hence perhaps do better than Descartes did on the last page of the Meditations . |
| 51 | In fact , that is just what it did at the last election . |
| 52 | Er , I did at the last council urge that we actually needed to break the deadlock my er a and I thought that was very important . |
| 53 | I was just trying to remember whether they did Joan 's do at the last year . |
| 54 | Ogden and Richards , in contrast , stress that words are used to ‘ point to ’ things , and that their meaning does in the last analysis depend on the things they are used to point to , their referents ; language may be different from reality , therefore , but it nonetheless reflects it . |