Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] last [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | AdStar , which employs just under 16,000 people , failed to perform last year , with turnover down 12% at $6,110m , and a net loss of $265m after restructuring charges . |
| 2 | I got caught last week because I got fed the wrong line . |
| 3 | ‘ A young girl got attacked last week , my mate in the police told me . |
| 4 | Barwick , 40 , of Cornforth Avenue , Middlesbrough , admitted poaching last October . |
| 5 | The official receiver has been called into the firm , which ceased trading last June . |
| 6 | The German economy stopped growing last summer and is now in deep recession , with industrial output in the year to March down more than 10% . |
| 7 | One practice has used last year 's savings to clear its waiting list totally for eye , orthopaedic , and ear , nose , and throat surgery by purchasing the operations from the private sector . |
| 8 | Higher taxes , the most sensible route , are probably out — both for the usual political reasons and because this year nobody wants to reopen last October 's budget agreement . |
| 9 | Perhaps the teenage scribblers — not to mention the longer-in-the-tooth City commentators who helped to orchestrate last year 's departure of Robert Horton as BP 's chairman and chief executive — are still coming to terms with Financial Reporting Standard No 3 , the new format recommended by the Stock Exchange for presenting details of financial performance . |
| 10 | Rang the landlord the next morning , Saturday morning , and , apparently he has rang last night , and your wife Debbie took my drink away and away , I said that 's fair enough , so he said . |
| 11 | Technical advice from fellow Lancastrian John Spencer helped to land last year 's title and he is again in his corner . |
| 12 | You will see that some topics/themes are still open , and we want to repeat last year 's idea of negotiating these with you . |
| 13 | Mr Whyte plans to visit the research base at Laspi Bay , in the Crimea 20 miles east of Sebastopol , where Brightness was expected to arrive last night , to ask the Russians to drop their plan . |
| 14 | I tried to ring last night to say I would n't be home , but the machine was n't on . ’ |
| 15 | At the end of its first year 's trading , turnover was around £250,000 , and the second year is going even better ; the company has achieved last year 's total within six months . |
| 16 | I wonder whether the right hon. Gentleman has read last week 's edition of The Economist , which investigated which European Community countries conformed with the convergence conditions set in the treaty . |
| 17 | Meanwhile , Chadwick and co are expected to follow last summer 's ‘ Babe Rainbow ’ LP with a single before the end of the year . |
| 18 | MOVIE director Steven Spielberg was reported missing last night on a hurricane-lashed Hawaiian island . |
| 19 | The body of George Hall , 35 , a driving instructor , from Milngavie , Glasgow , who was reported missing last October , was found on 5 January at Bothwellbank . |
| 20 | There are more members — and we receive more letters — for Steffi 's fan club service , than for any other player , even Andre Agassi , who has overtaken last year 's previously most popular male player , Stefan Edberg . |
| 21 | I knew what I 'd witnessed last time I 'd seen one of those in the possession of a malai officer . |
| 22 | She flushed now , remembering how she 'd realised last night that he must have returned without her hearing . |
| 23 | In a sign that the rebound may be running out of steam , the Fed disclosed last night that the widely watched M2 measure of money supply , a barometer of economic activity , plummeted $7.1 billion in the week ending March . |
| 24 | I heaved myself out , folded my own blanket , lifted the boards and sorted everything till it looked how it 'd looked last night . |
| 25 | But then she remembered the white-haired , fragile old woman she 'd met last night , and she sighed . |
| 26 | The woman that she 'd seen last night at the top of the stairs was nowhere around , and Lucy knew better than to ask . |
| 27 | A Merseyside based analysist said last night : ‘ Sadly they are still in a mess , they badly need to reduce debts of approaching £1bn even though we expect to see a improvement in profitability this year . ’ |
| 28 | No I said erm I had a conversation with Gillian about reading , about little bits of reading and , I made the point that we 'd said last night about him barking at print , reading through words that he did n't know and not asking what they were and she said she 'd noticed that . |
| 29 | It was the same old production of Gypsy Baron they 'd done last year , but there were two huge question marks over this year 's production : two new debuts , Ingrid and Therese . |
| 30 | She 'd spent last Wednesday evening drinking at the Royal Legion Club in Swindon Town Centre . |