Example sentences of "to [prep] the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Gary can only answer by performing in the style we have grown accustomed to for the last few seasons . ’ |
| 2 | Over the first course I made the usual polite inquiries about Sally 's new job and asked her what she had been up to for the last half-dozen years or so . |
| 3 | Declarations similar to those referred to in the last paragraph have also been made in this context . |
| 4 | And we now know that these ghastly effects are the results of what we referred to in the last lecture endotoxins . |
| 5 | And in determining what is suitable they must have regard to the matters referred to in the last three lines of the substituted subsection . |
| 6 | This sort of analysis is substantially similar to Jakobson 's discussion of Poe 's ‘ Raven ’ ( Sebeok 1971 : 371–2 ) , which I referred to in the last chapter , and it may well be that the New Critics ' influence lay behind Jakobson 's arguments there . |
| 7 | There 's the firstly that of young children , and it 's something that I remember putting a motion to in the last administration about a creche or whatever or looking into this facility , in the fact of erm , trying to encourage more people with young families to erm , actually get involved in local government and politics . |
| 8 | In the case of unregistered title the husband 's solicitors will , therefore , submit a copy of the last conveyance , mortgage ( if any ) , any sales-off or other transactions , together with copies of any covenants referred to in the last conveyance , to the new husband 's solicitors who will themselves submit a draft conveyance . |
| 9 | Some of the wacky and wonderful things people got up to in the last ITV Telethon 2 years ago . |
| 10 | Those are the two other issues that I want to get on to in the last part of the programme . |