Example sentences of "come [prep] the [noun sg] last [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Retail sales volumes are also expected to have come off the boil last month after rising strongly over the past quarter . |
| 2 | It was since that child had come into the house last night . |
| 3 | One young constable had come to the house last year when they had been burgled and , very laboriously , had written the details of the crime into a book . |
| 4 | We have been without food before , when the chimney came through the roof last year . ’ |
| 5 | The case , which concerned three small islands in the Torres Strait , came before the court last year . |
| 6 | During the curious lull that followed , in which nobody seemed to get on or off , Miss Labrooy leaned forward in her seat and said : ‘ Do you know why I decided to help you when you came to the surgery last week , Mr Barnett ? |
| 7 | Before he came to the department last month , Peckham was director of the British Postgraduate Medical Federation in London , which coordinates numerous research institutes . |