Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] [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 | 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 . |
| 5 | Her house was burgled last night ! |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Daniel 's weight plummeted to just over two stone when his condition was diagnosed last February . |
| 11 | But his body was exhumed last Monday for the ceremonial reburial yesterday . |
| 12 | I earn my first of these by commenting that there were a few raised eyebrows when his peerage was announced last June . |