Example sentences of "in the last [noun] [pers pn] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Love and death have always been themes exciting the imagination of poets ; but in the last century they figured in works of art and literature to an extent that was almost obsessional . |
| 2 | When the directors of the London and North Western Railway organised their company in the last century they decided to build an engineering works , for locomotives and rolling stock , near the centre of their network , and this point was in the countryside at Crewe . |
| 3 | Canonisation of artists has exploded : whereas in the last century you worshipped either Rubens or Botticelli , depending on your aesthetic credo , now it is legitimate to worship Gerome as well as Manet , while putting them on the same altar as living legends like Schnabel , Kiefer and Koons . |
| 4 | Mel Sterland ( in the last year he played ) |
| 5 | He had n't expected this precipitate visit and in the last hour he had bawled out everyone in sight . |
| 6 | Well again er , er a three bedroomed house , I would , you see and they were putting one plug in , in , in each , each bedroom and , and two plugs in the main bedroom so they dropped one down altogether and erm , erm in a lounge like this to put two plugs in , sort of one in that corner and one in that corner it 's no good to anybody , it 's , as much as anything else was er , er about placing plugs as well er , if one 's only going to have two plugs well then least one should be able to place them in , in the right positions , er putting them behind doors is , is , is no good at all , a lot of them have been done that way because the it always means flex is going to be draped across the , the door if people are walking in gon na trip over it and erm , they probably got down to now , something er just less than the standard I would think in the , in the last houses they built . |
| 7 | Oh well , in the last second it went another ten metres . |
| 8 | In the last round they won 3-0 at home to Bromsgrove of the Beazer Homes League . |
| 9 | In the last round they won 3-0 at home to Bromsgrove of the Beazer Homes League . |
| 10 | But in the last round she had two fences down on the most difficult course , with Mandevilles Supreme , the mount of William Funnell , another of the finalists . |
| 11 | It put my mind at rest on one point often in the last weeks we had seemed more like friends than incipient lovers ; the silences now seemed to betoken a quiet awareness of the new status that would soon envelop us . |
| 12 | In the last month I got depressed . |
| 13 | When Jean 's turn came for her third , she fully expected it to be as straightforward as Billy and Berta , but in the last week she got a lot of bleeding . |
| 14 | In the last week it had positively snowed letters and business . |
| 15 | In the last week he had consulted it thirty or forty times : |
| 16 | If , at first , his rule had appeared to be to the benefit of France , in the last years it had suffered considerable setbacks . |
| 17 | In the last interview he gave to a French journalist before the war began , Ho , in envisaging the way in which ‘ at all costs war must be averted ’ , seemed to accept independence within the French Union ; although unless this was based on a total misunderstanding of the nature of the French Union , which also seems unlikely , this was probably more of a smoke-screen than a smoke-signal . |
| 18 | In the last chapter we argued that there were three main current approaches , Realism , Pluralism , and Structuralism . |
| 19 | In the last chapter we saw that the crisis of capitalism resulted from the crisis of humanism — the inability to resolve the basic tension between freedom and control . |
| 20 | In the last chapter we looked at some of the effects on people of knowing that a death is likely to occur and some of the anticipated grief reactions that can be recognized . |
| 21 | In the last chapter we looked at how the social institution of marriage has changed at different times in history . |
| 22 | In the last chapter we started off in two relatively small pens , but then escaped and roamed all over the farm . |
| 23 | In the last chapter we discussed a number of simple operations on two basic arithmetic data formats , fixed point and floating-point . |
| 24 | In the last chapter we discussed Giddens 's notion of time-space distantiation ; the idea that social life and social processes are becoming increasingly stretched over both time and space . |
| 25 | In the last chapter we assembled some basic ingredients of a sociology which is more sensitive to people 's experience of locality and locale . |
| 26 | In the last chapter we described how Bob and Joan Halton had been drawn together — had ‘ chosen ’ each other — by an unconscious preoccupation with handling their emotional greed . |
| 27 | In the last chapter we described the defence of splitting between the anger and the yearning aroused by the absence of the needed , safe figure . |
| 28 | In the last chapter we introduced the free-rider problem when discussing why bribes and compensation for externalities might not occur . |
| 29 | In the last chapter we introduced two notions of equity : horizontal equity , or the equal treatment of equals , and vertical equity , the redistribution from the ‘ haves ’ to the ‘ have-nots ’ . |
| 30 | In the last chapter I said that the average consumption of fat in the Western world is about 130 grams ( over 4½ ounces ) a day . |