Example sentences of "were [vb pp] last " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three of them were sacked last month , leaving Mark Franklin and Tony Dorie as hosts . |
| 2 | When 343 workers were sacked last February for going on strike over lay-offs and cuts in benefits ( 80% were women , some with 35 years of service ) , 270 others rushed to take their jobs . |
| 3 | Mel Hawley , chief executive , said the Nissan and Honda contracts in Britain were completed last year , and the Toyota paint shop would be finished by end 1992 . |
| 4 | Fish told me ; ‘ The studios were completed last July and the recording of ‘ Internal Exile ’ , my second solo album , began in the same month . |
| 5 | Take some pills that you were given last night . |
| 6 | Which is what we were given last year . |
| 7 | Take some pills that you were given last night . |
| 8 | TWO brands of a vaccine given to millions of children were withdrawn last night because it is feared they could cause meningitis . |
| 9 | Strikes by pilots , cabin crew and ground staff , were compounded last winter by unusually persistent fog at under-equipped north Italian tourist airports . |
| 10 | Gloucester won 14 -3 and Nottingham dropped down to the second division … this time around the Kingsholm men are looking over their shoulders … but those relegation worries were eased last Saturday with that 18-6 win over London Irish … tonight it 's a club match no league points to be won or lost but Gloucester want every win they can get |
| 11 | About 75,000 homes were repossessed last year — putting around 6,000 men , women and children out on the streets every week . |
| 12 | Around 250 responses were received last year commenting on the group 's initial consultation paper , and 140 of them found fault . |
| 13 | THE five surviving Northern Ireland heroes of the Battle of Britain were honoured last night . |
| 14 | As a result , 900,000 more patients were treated last year than in 1979 , and that has resulted in in-patient waiting lists being 21 per cent . |
| 15 | THE Hampshire County Youth Choir were formed last October to give young people aged 15 to 20 years the opportunity to take part in a higher standard of choral singing than perhaps would be open to them at their schools or colleges . |
| 16 | Dog bone vouchers were stopped last November , and St Petersburg 's 360,000 cats and dogs are trying to survive on scraps from their owners ' tables . |
| 17 | It 's just those lapses ( which were punished last year ) which we ca n't allow to happen . |
| 18 | SPIRALLING electricity prices were blamed last night for the loss of another 100 North West jobs . |
| 19 | Mr McNeilage , 26 , and four other members of the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund team were trapped last week when Rwandan Government forces clashed with guerrillas of the country 's Patriotic Front after the massacre of 300 Tutsi tribesmen . |
| 20 | The figures also show that a further seventeen AIDS deaths were reported last month , bringing the total for the year so far to three hundred and one . |
| 21 | Waites envisages a new , government-funded , independent organisation which would be responsible for raising standards of food hygiene by publicity and by the training of food-handlers. 60,000 cases of food poisoning were reported last year , representing a threefold rise since 1980 . |
| 22 | Only 18 cases were reported last year , yet the disease is caused by a bacteria present on one in three people . |
| 23 | Forty six thefts of vehicles were reported last week . |
| 24 | For this reason additional funds were voted last year for the city . |
| 25 | But when the contents of the will were disclosed last week , it was Mrs Rinehart who got control of the mines . |
| 26 | On behalf of the Opposition , I join with him in extending sympathy to the families whose lives were shattered last Friday by the IRA 's vicious murder campaign . |
| 27 | It was the first time the cameras had been used since they were installed last year . |
| 28 | RESIDENTS of a sheltered housing unit in Wallasey were evacuated last night after a fire broke out in a communal kitchen . |
| 29 | More than 1.5 million car crimes were committed last year , one in five by people under 21 , a survey found . |
| 30 | Sterling calmer : The pound won respite from last week 's onslaught partly due to confirmation that retail sales were subdued last month and as fears of a rise in interest rates faded . |