Example sentences of "be [verb] for the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | A decent man doing a difficult job with players who are light years away from being the world 's best , he has been treated for the last week like a cross between a child molester and a Nazi war criminal . |
| 2 | They have n't noticed the so-called economic boom Chile 's been enjoying for the last twenty years . |
| 3 | Dictating condolences to the mother of a murdered husband whom you 've been cuckolding for the last three years would take more than his limited social vocabulary . |
| 4 | I 've been farming for the last 70 years and never seen anything like it . ’ |
| 5 | You 've all got friends and relations in er other jobs and they 've all been struggling for the last two or three years have n't they ? |
| 6 | ( Unless of course , you are booked for the last sitting ! ) |
| 7 | I mean if we look at erm the large number of single parent families , mainly who are headed by women , the position of Social Security for these women has deteriorated in the last few years erm both in terms of the real value of the money received ; Child Benefit has been frozen for the last three or four years ; regulations such as you used to be able to offset your child care expenses when you were claiming income support have been changed , women can no longer can now only earn erm fifteen pounds a week of they 're a single parent and they can not offset their child care costs . |
| 8 | Although they have only been trading for the last ten years , they continue the tradition of using a water powered mill which started in the 1800s . |
| 9 | It could be the day you deleted the thesis you 'd been writing for the last year , or the time the system crashed while you were giving a presentation in front of a thousand people . |
| 10 | In the first place it is a single system of examinations in place of the dual system that has been operating for the last twenty-two years . |
| 11 | Now , so far er , the acquisitions that have come onto the market have n't really reflected er , the trading conditions in which all companies in this country have been operating for the last eighteen months . |
| 12 | They 've been living for the last ten years in an environment where they expect there to be a high level of occult activity in society . |
| 13 | The fact was that Algy had been living for the last year with a working-class architect called Len in a basement flat in Maida Vale . |
| 14 | Her East Coast American accent deceived most people , it was so like , and yet in some ways so unlike , that of the society in which she had been living for the last six months . |
| 15 | Almost everyone has a story to tell about dream incorporation — for instance dreaming about Arctic exploration only to wake up and find that the covers have slipped off and he is freezing cold , or dreaming of bells ringing only to wake up eventually to find that the alarm clock has been clattering for the last few minutes . |
| 16 | Now , however , she sat up in bed and wondered , as she had been wondering for the last few days , what had happened to the spider . |
| 17 | and they can put that on the recorder but I 've been told for the last two and a half years by this government that I am not unemployed . |
| 18 | He said : ‘ I have been waiting for the last three years for an opportunity like this and I see it as the right time in my career to take it . |
| 19 | The trophy for the ladies open has not been engraved for the last few years . |
| 20 | That is the area which has been used for the last five or six years as the basis of the And that outer boundary more or less coincides with the outer boundary erm of the York greenbelt . |
| 21 | ‘ What the ‘ ell do you think we 've been doin' for the last hour ? ’ asked Tommy . |
| 22 | HOUSE has been called for the last time at the Mecca bingo hall in Middlesbrough and its future is now uncertain . |
| 23 | He had borrowed it from a fellow inmate of the lodging house in Kennington where he had been staying for the last week . |
| 24 | And what about Body Shop supremo Anita Roddick , the woman who has been feted for the last ten years as some kind of environmentally conscious feminist icon . |
| 25 | They 've been expanding for the last four years . |
| 26 | Dreams came true in many ways ; some made strokes which had not been played for the last 20 years , others took catches and some ran threes . |
| 27 | Then nine tenths of the rubbish they 've been printing for the last few weeks will be seen for what it is . |
| 28 | ‘ You 're a bloody good photographer and the work you 've been doing for the last five years proves it . |
| 29 | I do n't know then what we have been doing for the last four weeks , when we first asked . ’ |
| 30 | 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 . |