Example sentences of "it [prep] the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | And on sex he notes : ‘ The older women are best because they always think they may be doing it for the last time . ’ |
| 2 | And on sex he notes : ‘ The older women are best because they always think they may be doing it for the last time . ’ |
| 3 | Dozzell said : ‘ I thought about wearing it for the last few minutes , but I did n't think it would go down too well . |
| 4 | The BBC 's film review programme is 21 years old today — and Barry , 59 , has been presenting it for the last 20 . |
| 5 | I went back to my office and shut myself into it for the last time . |
| 6 | I do n't know exactly how long , but I 've been aware of it for the last eighteen months . |
| 7 | Sometimes it was important to spoil oneself — Helena had written a piece on it for the last issue of Athene , explaining that when women felt the need for a little luxury they should give in to it , that pampering oneself created an inner glow which proclaimed that this was a Special Woman . |
| 8 | She stood up and looked round the room as though she were leaving it for the last time . |
| 9 | The bantering tone remained in Surere 's voice but he added edge to it for the last word or two . |
| 10 | I 've managed it for the last four years , have n't I ? ’ |
| 11 | Oh I think there 's no doubt about that and also their their their wages were low in the beginning you know and and their their their hard work that they 've put into it for the last you know I mean it had it I mean David Price says at the best of times is not easy to run a quarry you know you know and they they ha all work in a quarry so it had to be a cooperation and you know the management said you come up with us and and they were n't complaining actually about the wages it was quite good wages for . |
| 12 | Yeah , and then from that they 've now got these fucking things that show the direction , the sign , the speed and oh its incredible sonar 's been going longer than radar , but only just we were the world leader 's now , I mean we cos we , cos we preserve fuel , we knew exactly , they left it for the last minute to get up there and intercept them . |
| 13 | At the beginning of this erm programme he admitted that we had an excellent education service in Oxfordshire , and he 's now , having taken no part in managing it for the last five years , he is now claiming that in fact it 's due to what happened before . |
| 14 | We 'll put it as the last item . |
| 15 | Almondsbury came more into it as the last twenty minutes came and erm forced a few corners ; Banbury had probably the more chances of getting the elusive winner erm but the game could have gone either way and I think after all is considered erm the final result was a fair result . |
| 16 | He did quite well out of it during the last year . |
| 17 | If you are using two strands of 2/30s for your jacquard then add one extra strand for the welt and remove it after the last two CX rows . |
| 18 | Hundreds of soldiers doing it after the last war — and airmen . |
| 19 | If you leave it til the last minute and you question spot , you might end up in a sticky situation How many people here have failed an exam ? |
| 20 | It was too tempting a target , and the Zeppelin aimed for it with the last of its deadly cargo , but this time , they overshot the mark . |
| 21 | IN A POEM called History Peter Porter piles a number of state crimes — reminiscent of those attributed to the Stasi — on top of one another in a seemingly solid pillar of evidence , only to explode it in the last line with the simple but logical detonation : ‘ Their story will not be told . ’ |
| 22 | I soloed back up it in the last light , an orgy of vertical but easy bridging on huge holds . |
| 23 | Women who were currently taking the pill or who had stopped taking it in the last 12 months had a significantly lower rate of endometriosis than those who had stopped for longer periods . |
| 24 | Had Louis been inclined to forget the destiny his father had mapped out for him , he would have been forcefully reminded of it in the last decade of his reign , when his chief adviser was Suger , abbot of St Denis between 1122 and 1151 , a man of humble birth consumed by a passionate devotion to the cause of monarchy in the Carolingian mould . |
| 25 | Have you done it in the last sort of few weeks ? |
| 26 | How lovely it would be to find the garden , and see what had happened to it in the last ten years ! |
| 27 | Causes of change are many — the government , the unions , OPEC , the Argentines , company mergers , new brooms , technological change , recession , unemployment , legislation , EEC — you name it , you 've experienced it in the last few years . |
| 28 | Efforts to strengthen and improve it in the last decades of the century had only moderate success . |
| 29 | Forgive the typed letter — bit impersonal , but I am trying to get to speedy grips with the little apple laptop powerbook 100 which I got when George was home — heaven alone knows how I would have done without it in the last few weeks . |
| 30 | The norw. team who looked sure to qualify have vasted it in the last two games by loosing away and have no chance to qualify . |