Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [adv] [prep] [art] last " in BNC.

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1 In fact most outstanding problems were ironed out over the last couple of months , Goldstein says ; bug fixing remains .
2 In fact most outstanding problems were ironed out over the last couple of months , Goldstein says ; bug fixing remains .
3 Until the South African mines were opened up during the last decade of the nineteenth century , diamonds were obtained exclusively from alluvial deposits , often those which also produced gold .
4 Arrangements to introduce the new system of central scheduling were to be announced this week , but were called off at the last minute .
5 Both were reported to have agreed , but the talks were called off at the last minute .
6 Both players were brought in for the last six weeks of the season as McHale began to look ahead to next season when the Seasiders hope to mount a serious promotion push .
7 The Germans broke through the British line , but seemed unable , once again , to follow up their success , and were driven back by the last Allied reserves .
8 B. Each town has a few factories , most of which were set up during the last 40 years .
9 Notices warning of the dangers of thin ice were put up in the last few days when the lake froze over .
10 On 1st April 1989 , annual domestic rate bills were sent out for the last time .
11 Andy Norman , who 's a sort of Sam Goldwyn of our athletics , spotted this key to his character years ago during a wait at Helsinki airport where Christie was hanging around for the last plane on a ticket about one grade up from cargo .
12 She had moved across the courtyard , flagstone by flagstone , to cheat the shadow ; now she was boxed in to the last corner of light .
13 Ken Connelly , 52 , who suffers from an aorta aneurysm , a problem with his main artery , was about to be operated on when he was turned away at the last minute — on two occasions .
14 Before the surrounding land was built over in the last century and subsequently , you could have seen it from miles away in every direction .
15 They are not even about the accessibility of services , and they are certainly not about the development of economic and social policies — something that is so often ignored in the scramble to fragment and disintegrate what was built up over the last century by local government people of all political persuasions .
16 In England , lavender was grown commercially until the last war in Surrey and in Kent ; now it is only grown in Norfolk , near Norwich .
17 Speakers were David Snow of BP Bitor ( the company which imports and markets the fuel from Venezuela ) , Peter Taylor from the Oil Pollution Research Unit at Fort Popton , Dr Clive Morgan , also from Fort Popton but who was drafted in at the last minute to play the part of National Power Plc , and finally Gordon James of Narberth Friends of the Earth .
18 Earlier she had come down in this lift with Steve and now she was going up with the last person on earth she could have envisaged .
19 A minor but telling incident : a big army exercise scheduled for last week in which French soldiers were , for the first time , to do mock battle alongside British troops in West Germany was called off at the last moment because of East Germany 's election .
20 A press conference Mr Kaifu had scheduled for Wednesday evening to explain what the government had decided was called off at the last minute .
21 Sheringham , who cost £2 million from Millwall 12 months ago , was lined up for Spurs a fortnight ago but the deal was called off at the last minute .
22 The plan was called off at the last moment .
23 However , this too was called off at the last minute , apparently because of opposition outrage over a massacre at Mbuji-Mayi in central Zaire .
24 But the meeting was called off at the last minute and now Caldaire hopes to hold talks on Tuesday , February 25 .
25 She explained : ‘ I was called in at the last minute to help style a photographic session for Kylie about 18 months ago and it went from there .
26 After a critical and commercial drubbing was dealt out to the last SCRITTI POLITTI album , GREEN GARTSIDE ran to the hills to lick his wounds .
27 ‘ When we split up I was really pissed off that we had n't achieved a lot of things we could have done , and that mood was coming through in the last records because it was depressing .
28 The scale of fees has been simplified and was set out in the last Q.T. notes ( gold paper again ) £12 per annum for teachers living within 50 miles of their training venue £10 per annum for those outside a 50 mile radius
29 And if something else really was slipped aboard at the last moment , he thought , who knows but we may recover that , too !
30 Many medieval millers paid their rent to the lord of the manor in eels ; and when the water-mill in the centre of Stafford was pulled down after the last war , the laconic miller expressed as his only regret : ‘ I shall miss the eels . ’
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