Example sentences of "[pers pn] did [prep] the last [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er , I did at the last council urge that we actually needed to break the deadlock my er a and I thought that was very important . |
| 2 | Only if the burden becomes insupportable — or increases too abruptly — do electors seriously complain ( as they did in the last days of the 1964 and 1974 Labour governments ) . |
| 3 | Let it be supposed that according to the usual methods of borrowing and funding , the Public Debts , during the present war , should encrease to no greater degree than they did in the last war ; which was about 30 millions : And let it be supposed , according to past experience , that in ten or twelve years after a peace ; we should be plunged into a fresh war ; which might encrease the debts of the nation 30 millions more , and that afterwards we should have another breathing time of ten or twelve years , and that according to custom a third war should ensue , no less expensive than each of the former two ; these three wars will swell the national debts to the amount of 170 millions , and that in little more than fifty years . |
| 4 | The feeling was that Richards should have declared before he did as the last hour 's batting produced few runs , but when England set about playing out time , Larkins , having gone first ball in the first innings , lasted only one more this time . |
| 5 | In fact , that is just what it did at the last election . |