Example sentences of "last [noun sg] [Wh adv] he [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.

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1 A CONSIDERABLE future opened up for Gary Mason here last night when he knocked out Tyrell Biggs as the bell rang to end the seventh round .
2 IRISHMAN Eamonn Loughran was crowned Commonwealth welterweight champion last night when he knocked out Canada 's Donovan Boucher in the third round .
3 SERGEI Bubka 's domination of world pole vaulting was shattered last night when he crashed out of the Olympics — without clearing a height .
4 A PETROL station owner told last night how he fought off two masked youths who tried to snatch his takings .
5 But those trips will probably be few and far between over the next two years since his already groaning workload was increased still further last month when he took over from Hugh Collum , finance director of SmithKline Beecham , as chairman of the 100 Group of finance directors .
6 That is to take nothing away from Mitterrand 's remarkable three-hour TV performance last week when he took on — and beat — a TV interviewer , three editors , 12 members of the public and a leading anti-Maastricht politician .
7 And last week when he brought in , he brought in pâté for his toast like .
8 He stayed there until February last year when he took up his current position heading a three person unit within the Personnel department .
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