Example sentences of "do [prep] the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's what we er we want , that 's what we require , because do n't forget old people er , in fact our present national treasurer , a Mrs Mary , is now serving as the national treasurer and has done for the last thirty five years . |
| 2 | I am afraid that while this ban is in force my wife and I will not be trading in Darlington as we have done for the last 20 years . |
| 3 | Mr McQuaker said he had just left work at the Haughton Road service station at 9pm as he had done for the last 25 years when the youths pounced . |
| 4 | And what shall we do with the last pizza so that |
| 5 | Mrs Thatcher , who returned from the United States last night , said : ‘ Everything we have done in the last 13 years will be conserved and built on into the future . |
| 6 | ‘ But we are proud of what we have done in the last year and a half . ’ |
| 7 | County clubs , meanwhile , can help by welcoming former players , be they great or small , and in particular by forming old player associations , as Somerset has done in the last few seasons , as some have been doing for decades . |
| 8 | List in column 1 everything you 've done in the last three days . |
| 9 | The analysis draws throughout on the work done in the last decade by Gruber ( 1974 ) , Herbert ( 1974 , 1977 ) , Ghiselin ( 1975 ) , Ruse ( 1975a , b ; 1979 ) , Schweber ( 1977 , 1980 ) , Kottler ( 1978 ) , Manier ( 1978 ) , Sulloway ( 1979 , 1982a , b ) , Kohn ( 1980 ) , Ospovat ( 1981 ) , and Sloan ( 1983a , b ) and is derived from studies by the present writer ( Hodge , 1982 , 1986 ; Hodge & Kohn , 1986 ) where full reference is made to the documentary sources and secondary literature . |
| 10 | The intention was for students to complete a short initial destinations questionnaire as they approached the end of their course , and it was suggested that this might be done in the last formal course session , or when projects were handed in ( if appropriate ) . |
| 11 | This is what we look at in terms of er target of erm the er wallets we 're going to print and that is determined , not quite sure what the measurement is for estate agent it 's something to er to do combination of the number of peop er number of mailings they 've done in the last er twelve months and also the number of houses they have on their their books . |
| 12 | One of the things I am obviously gon na have to look at is the what you 've done in the last two or three years because traditionally erm we would n't ask van drivers to come along and see us . |
| 13 | Mr Fallon said the Government was providing much more money for training than it had done in the last recession in the '80s . |
| 14 | now I 've got two little girls he said I hate to turn away knowing what he 'd done to the last little girl |
| 15 | ‘ If you 're so sure , what would you do on the last day of your life ? ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I can tell you what I 'd do on the last day of my life , ’ he said . |
| 17 | Kenneth Baker , the party chairman , said yesterday that Cabinet ministers would play a stronger role in government than they had done over the last decade , and there would have to be public spending increases in the 1990s to pay for an improved quality of life . |
| 18 | Although traditional shopfronts add charm and individuality to high streets , unprecedented damage has been done over the last century . |
| 19 | The truth is that for a weekly paper in something as effervescent and ethereal as pop , all that we 've done over the last 40 years is not as important as what we do next week . |
| 20 | So we get to the anniversary of the policy , not the claim , the policy , I just coincide my illness with an anniversary , but on the anniversary of the policy , we 'll look at the policy , where inflation , what 's it done over the last twelve months , let's say it 's gone up by five per cent . |
| 21 | Er , we did it erm , er just after 1919 when er , er we started backing the white Russians and erm , before we write off erm everything the Communist er Government of er Russia has done over the last seventy years as being evil , what I think we 've got to be aware of is that we may once more be unleashing the forces of nationalism , which in 1914 , and I think of going up er in the period in the thirties very much lead to erm two world wars , and er I 'd like to know more about er some of the forces the so called democratic forces that are backing erm Mr Yeltsin . |
| 22 | And , I mean , reluctantly we have to accept that this is not an ideal world , but I mean , just now , we were actually looking at the number of food hygiene inspections that have been done over the last few months , which have increased enormously , it just means , I mean it emphasises the fact that food has changed , food , and the number of places that are actually serving food now I mean , the corner shop does sandwiches . |
| 23 | Comdex organisers had an independent survey done at the last mammoth fall show and discovered that 35% of the attendees were interested in Unix . |
| 24 | All out 446 meant that England had a lot of batting to do in the last two days , and when Larkins went at the end of the third day to a ball that he did not see in the shadows , one felt they just were not going to make it . |
| 25 | ‘ If you do n't know what you 'd choose to do on the last day of your life , you do n't know what 's really important to you . |
| 26 | ‘ You 're a bloody good photographer and the work you 've been doing for the last five years proves it . |
| 27 | I do n't know then what we have been doing for the last four weeks , when we first asked . ’ |
| 28 | A game of tag ( see below ) may well be just the thing ; but if they 've just come in from the playground and that 's what they 've been doing for the last fifteen minutes , it would be a bit of a waste of time . |
| 29 | ‘ I asked what you 'd been doing for the last five years … ’ |
| 30 | It beats changing nappies , which is what I 've been doing for the last 5 months . |