Example sentences of "a [noun] last " in BNC.
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| 1 | Garah , who split a pastern last year , overcame a slow start to win the Stetchworth Maiden Stakes . |
| 2 | The Daily Telegraph caused a storm in a teacup last week at the Queen 's grocer , Fortnum and Mason in Piccadilly . |
| 3 | We had a case last month — of course , I ca n't mention names — when a sixteen-year-old choir girl accused her vicar of rape . |
| 4 | We were working on a case last year . ’ |
| 5 | Sheila and Annie did go on a bit last time . |
| 6 | I blacked out a bit last night . |
| 7 | The front has got to be tidy I did a bit last night when I went out . |
| 8 | and she says she 's still as bad off now as when she went in to get the house , you know the five thousand odd , she 's would , she 's , she 's , I had a bit last , I , I wished you had it all , I said do n't lie , I said do n't tell me you have n't had it I says cos you have , she says yeah , I says what you done with it ? |
| 9 | Tension has risen sharply since a referendum last month in which the majority of the population voted for independence . |
| 10 | A referendum last September backed a switch to PR ( mainly , as in Italy , to punish politicians ) . |
| 11 | New Zealanders backed this system in a referendum last year . |
| 12 | Uncertainty over Mr Mulroney 's future has existed since the defeat in a referendum last October of his government 's proposals for constitutional reform aimed at solving the separatist dispute in French-speaking Quebec . |
| 13 | The fact that it was rejected in a referendum last year does not mean that it was a bad reform package . |
| 14 | Sunset Hiker , a winner last time , would be a live contender but a difficult trap position may prove a problem . |
| 15 | She 's married to Graham , her husband , and he trains race horses and he had a winner last weekend . |
| 16 | The other judges were Magnus Linklater , editor of The Scotsman ; Craig Winn , editor of M8 magazine and a semi-finalist representing Strathclyde University in the 1988 World Student Debating Championships ; Paul Sinclair , a researcher with Scottish Television and a winner last year for Glasgow University of the Observer International Mace , and Paul Spencer , a previous winner for Strathclyde of The Scotsman tournament . |
| 17 | Tools stolen : Tools were stolen from Stainton Hill House farm during a burglary last week . |
| 18 | The committee , chaired by Mr Neil Hamilton , Tory MP for Tatton , was forced to delay a decision last week when two Labour MPs , Mr Bob Clay ( Sunderland North ) and Mr George Galloway ( Hillhead ) could not attend . |
| 19 | The declaration will be backed up by a decision last week to form a separate Serbian Police Force and National Guard in the region . |
| 20 | There are claims that it 's an attempt to change miners ' minds about a decision last week to fight to save their pit . |
| 21 | The Secretary of State had quite a struggle last summer in his discussions with the Treasury on the revised community training programme . |
| 22 | It 's quite interesting that it 's the theatre that 's doing it , I was on a course last week in Sussex , a management course and there was Bradford theatre companies were there erm , from all the different theatres and they , they organize it and they organize the volunteers |
| 23 | It is n't just that the repertory is far-removed from that of the harp 's romantic territory — and , to the best of my recollection , of a kind last explored ( more conservatively and on a modern instrument ) in an entire disc by Zabaleta ( Archiv ) over 20 years ago , nor that it is played on two pedal-less early harps , it 's the spirit with and in which it is executed . |
| 24 | Instead he sent off a cheque last month for a new licence when his old one expired . |
| 25 | Actually , I had a think last night , I 'll tell you who else you want to get hold of . |
| 26 | ‘ They did take a dip last weekend , ’ she admitted . |
| 27 | Me and a girl had a fight last night . |
| 28 | And if you thought you had a fight last year over bi-annual congresses , you wait until you try and do anything that will affect our structure in the future . |
| 29 | Her Majesty 's dogs did make a bit of a dent in the corgi image when one of them bit the Queen 's hand during a fight last year , but like King Charles the second and his spaniels , the Queen is inseparable from her corgis . |
| 30 | I had a fight last night . |