Example sentences of "[was/were] [prep] last " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Republic of Ireland could be in England 's group , as they were in last year 's European Championship . |
| 2 | The Republic of Ireland could be in England 's group , as they were in last year 's European Championship . |
| 3 | Wendy Bell ( Private & Offshore Banking , Edinburgh ) and Judith Stobbie ( Branch Services , Edinburgh ) who were in last year 's winning team failed to make it to this year 's final . |
| 4 | ‘ Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward were in last night . |
| 5 | Or you can use the Back Door to hop between two rooms — it takes you back to the room you were in last . |
| 6 | But people were in last week ! |
| 7 | Yeah , they were in last night . |
| 8 | Your next door neighbour were in last night . |
| 9 | Aye , he were in last night . |
| 10 | Now of course it would depend very much on and whether you were in a drought situation as we were until last year or whether it 's like we 've been over this last summer and early winter which is that virtually not a day has passed without we 've had some rain , in which case obviously the roof is going to get cleaned up very much quicker but I have to say that although I 've always been under the impression that it 's not a good idea to save water off a new felt roof er because of deposits that come off the mineral felt . |
| 11 | Constituency Labour Party and trade union delegates seized eagerly on the common feeling that the Conservatives economic and political trials , and the disarray of the centre parties , were at last combining to open a window of opportunity . |
| 12 | By the date of the last epidemic it had been understood that the disease was mainly water-borne , and steps were at last being taken to secure a safe supply . |
| 13 | Left empty and decaying for some years , the buildings were at last put up for sale . |
| 14 | Women , the working class , Black and ethnic minority communities were at last to be given access to the language and the medium of the twentieth century . |
| 15 | At the end of May Dorothy could write to her brother Richard that ‘ William has now some poems in the Bristol press ’ ; and by mid-September , just as Coleridge and Wordsworth were preparing to leave for Germany , the Lyrical Ballads were at last ready to be offered to an indifferent public . |
| 16 | Even if the Germans were at last being pushed back , there were still the Japanese to demolish , and they were no soft touch by all accounts . |
| 17 | Several times they crossed paths that led into the forest but it was not until another hour had passed and the moon was paling in the light of the false dawn that they were at last among strange scattered rocks like those which strewed the fringe of the forest where they had first entered the Waste . |
| 18 | From about 1860 the European agricultural sector entered a period of crisis in which the baleful influence of the backward Prussian agricultural system and its links with the politics of the Prussian east were made abundantly clear : the mechanisms which the Junkers managed to hide from the German populace were at last revealed . |
| 19 | But once they had left the house , and were at last too far away to hear her aunt 's and uncle 's farewells , or to see them as they stood outside in the yard , silhouetted against the lighted kitchen , excitement began to creep into Ruth and her spirits began to lift . |
| 20 | Hopeful signs that consumers were at last starting to put their hands in their pockets helped to breathe new life into the brewers and stores . |
| 21 | ‘ We felt that the prices of leisure assets were at last reflecting their true value , ’ says Mr Irens . |
| 22 | On the day the lights were at last put up , Ceauşescu appeared and showed his displeasure with the design . |
| 23 | On Friday , 10 March , by which time Pons was becoming convinced that their hopes were at last being confirmed , Ron Fawcett , the US editor of the Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry , called him on a personal matter . |
| 24 | He lay watching me with eyes that were at last getting drowsy . |
| 25 | During the next half hour they worked in this way , and when the empty cases and the bed covers were at last placed on the cart , Aggie locked the door , then hesitated for a moment , wondering what to do with the key . |
| 26 | They felt that through joining the movement they had been liberated from the ills of modern society and that they were at last free to make the world a better place and themselves better people . |
| 27 | Palestinian negotiators asserted that the Israelis were at last beginning to appreciate the damage their punitive measures had done to popular support for the peace talks in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip . |
| 28 | Mr Ramaphosa suggested that the government timed the arrests in order to delay the talks precisely when they were at last poised for a breakthrough . |
| 29 | Princes were at last within reach of achieving their ends — or some of them — without having to resort to lengthy persuasion , to bribery or to the use of force . |
| 30 | Particular groups the blacks , women , recent immigrants — felt that their special needs were at last getting some attention in Washington , and they too voted for Roosevelt . |