Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [was/were] [verb] last [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With a careless shrug , he says : ‘ My flat was burgled last year and it occurred to me then not much of it was important . ’ |
| 2 | Her donation was revealed last night as two voice experts gave verdicts on a recording said to feature Diana chatting intimately to a man on the phone . |
| 3 | Its rink was closed last month . |
| 4 | Three stone lighter and a virtual insomniac , she has campaigned tirelessly for their release and her efforts were rewarded last week when Michelle and Lisa were granted the right to appeal against their conviction for the murder of Alison O'Shaughnessy . |
| 5 | Their land was demarcated last year but lack of respect for the boundaries resulted in the killing of a trespasser in July after two warnings were ignored . |
| 6 | Her house was burgled last night ! |
| 7 | His claims that most people are too stunned to react violently — ‘ the nearest we come to any threat is people laughing at us ’ — are contradicted by the experience of his right-hand man , Mr Mark Smith , whose cat was garrotted last week , but he sticks to his guns regardless . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | JOHN BURDON Sanderson Haldane , the centenary of whose birth was celebrated last week in a conference at the Science Museum , looms ever larger in the pantheon of evolutionary biologists . |
| 10 | Last December , the Heron International chairman sat down with Price Waterhouse accountant Alan Wheatley , whose stature was confirmed last Thursday when he became chairman-elect of venture capital giant 3i . |
| 11 | Sutton Hall said he would have to pay a carriage fee of £68 ; his cheque was cashed last August , but he still has n't been sent the units . |
| 12 | His words were echoed last night by PC Hall 's boss , Chief Insp Peyer Harrison , of Redcar Police . |
| 13 | Daniel 's weight plummeted to just over two stone when his condition was diagnosed last February . |
| 14 | But his body was exhumed last Monday for the ceremonial reburial yesterday . |
| 15 | I earn my first of these by commenting that there were a few raised eyebrows when his peerage was announced last June . |
| 16 | His officials were talking last night to the nuns ' lawyers . |