Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] for the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said , ‘ No , I have statements , I have witnesses and we 've been surveying you for the last four months . ’ |
| 2 | You look at the skill you did n't know you had , put a label on it and think : ‘ Yes I do do that ’ , whereas when you first walk in you think you 've done nothing for the last 18 years . |
| 3 | ‘ Women say to me they have n't done anything for the last ten years and it turns out they have had four children , run the PTA , served as parent governor , done charity work , organised a community activity and cared for aged parents . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I want to thank you for the last five minutes . ’ |
| 5 | Max joined me for the last nine of my eighteen-months ' stint in Sun City . |
| 6 | One day soon she would see him for the last time . |
| 7 | That was it until handover on Monday , which she hoped would be enough time to shake off the cold that had been dogging her for the last couple of days . |
| 8 | Persistent colds , coughs and a temperature have dogged her for the last year . |
| 9 | The BBC 's film review programme is 21 years old today — and Barry , 59 , has been presenting it for the last 20 . |
| 10 | Thomasino Boyd , who joined us for the last couple of years , and before that ( in Scots accent ) Doogie Rae . |
| 11 | Years ago I used to think this was a fun sport but the reason for thinking this has escaped me for the last 2 weeks . |
| 12 | Bessie kissed me for the last time as I held tightly to her . |
| 13 | I kissed her for the last time as she lay in her hospital bed : the bedclothes were crisp and undisturbed , and she looked very clean , just as she would have wanted to ; and very small , because she was so old , and having started life none too big had ended up , at the age of ninety-one , not much bigger than a child . |
| 14 | Dozzell said : ‘ I thought about wearing it for the last few minutes , but I did n't think it would go down too well . |
| 15 | Oh and I 'll have one for the last card . |
| 16 | Subconsciously he must have been expecting something like this : his first reaction was not surprise but an intensification of the dull misery which had enveloped him for the last 24 hours . |
| 17 | Rain watched her for the last few yards , noting how the morning 's cheerfulness had been replaced by anxiety . |
| 18 | And on sex he notes : ‘ The older women are best because they always think they may be doing it for the last time . ’ |
| 19 | And on sex he notes : ‘ The older women are best because they always think they may be doing it for the last time . ’ |
| 20 | Would some lingering affection for the man she had once married have driven her to France to see him for the last time ? |
| 21 | Though he was more like his old self , many suspected they were seeing him for the last time . |
| 22 | But I 've not been taking them for the last week . |
| 23 | He 's been hiding me for the last couple of days . ’ |
| 24 | You saw him for the last time in 1959 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Erm then you know that would be something whereas if they say well the recession 's so bad we have n't taken anybody for the last five years and your researches ca n't unearth anybody who seems to be prepared to er give you even half a chance then I mean |
| 27 | ‘ I 'm telling you for the last time , Harvey . |
| 28 | ‘ I 'm telling you for the last time , Liz , get up and let's go home . |
| 29 | Thus it is that the Tamar , beautiful as the nymph whose name she bears , winds her way from the rugged north coast between the hills , to be joined by the Tavy , flowing from Dartmoor to join her for the last few miles to the sea , while the luckless Torridge flows ever northward in vain pursuit of Tamara 's beauty . |
| 30 | 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 . |