Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the [noun] last year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Muir , omitted from the event last year after an administrative error , needed just 15 ends to help heal the wounds as he sent New Zealand 's Gary Lawson tumbling out of the championship . |
| 2 | One young constable had come to the house last year when they had been burgled and , very laboriously , had written the details of the crime into a book . |
| 3 | We have been without food before , when the chimney came through the roof last year . ’ |
| 4 | Loudspeakers will be lowered into the water from a pilot boat , and the whales will be played recordings made off the Azores last year by a Bangor University marine biologist , John Goold . |
| 5 | No less than three UIA work groups met in the UK last year — the Public Health group met in London at the time of the International Hospital Federation conference ; the Region 1 Habitat group met in Birmingham ; and the Architecture in Primary Schools group 2 as associated with the successful BET event in Cambridge . |
| 6 | The case , which concerned three small islands in the Torres Strait , came before the court last year . |
| 7 | The statements of Dr Baltimore 's which the NIH 's Office of Scientific Integrity finds ‘ most deeply troubling ’ were made to the NIH last year . |
| 8 | Planning permission was granted by the council last year to an agent for the building 's owner , Herant Aghajan . |
| 9 | On the figures , the company says that it should achieve double digit profit growth in the year to March 1994 but will fall short of the 13.3% figure achieved in 1992-93 , because of cuts in international tariffs agreed with the government last year and expected to be implemented on July 1 this year . |
| 10 | 14.2 million pigs were slaughtered in the UK last year . |
| 11 | Trucks , buses and most taxis use them , and 40 per cent of vehicle fuel sold in the UK last year was diesel . |
| 12 | We estimate that four million pounds worth of fake Adidas clothing was probably sold in the UK last year . |
| 13 | Cycling is cheap , it 's green , and it 's healthy … but despite the fact that over two million new bicycles were sold in the UK last year , less than three per cent of journeys are made by bike . |
| 14 | It includes exciting inter-active visitor displays and is housed in the museum 's purpose-built exhibition hall , which was opened to the public last year . |
| 15 | ( Weinberg directed the Whitney 's branch at the Equitable Center in Manhattan , closed by the museum last year , from 1989 to 1990 . ) |
| 16 | And the girl comes to see me — has been comin' ever since I met with the accident last year . |
| 17 | General Norman Schwarzkopf , or Stormin' Norman as he became known , retired from the forces last year . |
| 18 | Since the Minister is anxious to avoid giving a commitment to set up a further education council , perhaps he could use the opportunity of replying to the debate to rule out a possibility which was raised in the press last year . |
| 19 | IT TOOK an average of 106 months to build the six nuclear power stations that were completed in the US last year . |
| 20 | The Morgan , which has regular brake and clutch pedals but an accelerator lever on the steering wheel , was entered in the rally last year by its previous owner , Mr Terry Hands-Heart , from Surrey , but fared less well in his hands . |
| 21 | An estimated £51m was spent in the UK last year on nail products ; for many people , it seems , a well-turned hand is still incomplete without a coat of lacquer . |
| 22 | The wreck , snagged by a fisherman 's nets in 1989 about 100 miles south of Vung Tau on the coast of Vietnam , was brought to the surface last year and emptied , last week , into Christie 's salerooms in Amsterdam . |
| 23 | Later , Mrs Preston told the court how new courses , specifically for auxiliary nurses were introduced at the hospital last year . |
| 24 | Its training programme is boosted by a software export policy introduced by the government last year . |
| 25 | This peeping tom appeal led to the sale last year of about £25 million worth of amateur porn videos . |
| 26 | The print run for the catalogue last year topped 5 million copies , and the BA is expecting to beat that this year . |
| 27 | State banks , much to their chagrin , have been ordered to provide cheap insurance for pilgrims to Mecca : some 800 Indonesians died in the haj last year . |
| 28 | Did n't you go round the world last year ? |
| 29 | The report says that the government allowed 37 035 tonnes of waste to be imported into the UK last year . |
| 30 | This offers the opportunity to develop a range of practical and social skills , as well as giving some a leg-up into an acting career — five Equity cards were awarded within the company last year . |