Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [prep] last " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Mini Master failed to appear at last year 's Oshkosh because one of the 582 engines failed at 6500 ft 30 minutes after take-off from San Marcos , Texas . |
| 2 | High street sales fell in Novbember and business this month is now expected to remain at last year 's depressed levels , says Nigel Whittaker , chairman of the CBI 's Distributive Trades Panel . |
| 3 | And I want to apologize for last night , I made an awful ass of myself , I am sorry . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I do n't want to talk about last night , or about this morning ! |
| 5 | ‘ That 's right , ’ I said , pleased that he seemed to understand at last . |
| 6 | As they walked amidst the great trees , Ruth seemed to wake at last from the deadness that had possessed her since arriving in Andernesse . |
| 7 | What happened to all those budding artists who came to sign on last autumn and arrived with their brand new paint boxes and paper ? |
| 8 | Too determined for her own good really , which was why he had had to agree to last night in the first place . |
| 9 | CLIFTONVILLE — The acquisitions of John Poole ( Bangor ) and Mark Wallace 's return from England strengthens skipper Jonathan Rose 's team as they look to build on last season 's consolidation . |
| 10 | This new book , which is about all these and more , was produced to coincide with last year 's exhibition in the new Vitra Design Museum in Weil-am-Rhein . |
| 11 | Former Scotland captain Rioch , 44 , has been barracked by fans at the Den for much of a disappointing campaign after failing to build on last season 's success of reaching the promotion play-offs . |
| 12 | Coach Stephen Jackson aims to build on last season 's progress , and has Robbie McMinn returning from Queen 's . |
| 13 | Meanwhile , he enters 1991 without an economic plan or budget ( so everyone is having to improvise with last year 's targets ) , and without a prime minister to blame for mismanagement ( Nikolai Ryzhkov , who for months had been under pressure to resign and was about to be sidelined anyway , had a heart attack on December 25th ) . |
| 14 | Compelled to move at last he crossed over and glanced casually into the pharmacist 's as he passed . |
| 15 | This side is thick with informers but all the same a thousand managed to swim across last year . |
| 16 | Payne hopes to benefit from last week , when he squandered a three-shot halfway lead in the Mediterranean Open . |
| 17 | ( They managed to come on last year 's Central Wales Line trip . ) |
| 18 | The Government has confirmed it intends to proceed with a Phase 2 scheme and , subject to approval from the its leisure sub-committee next week , the council hopes to build on last year 's success . |
| 19 | ‘ I did n't manage to get on last summer 's tour of Australia , but that was just one of those things . |
| 20 | ‘ Why did you come , Freddie ? ’ she managed to ask at last . |
| 21 | If Labour 's petit Bourbons fail to recognise at last that the division of the non-Tory vote has for two decades made majority Labour government impossible , and that the Liberal Democrats are not going to disappear , then at least a disunited rump of the UK will be consigned forever to that category . |
| 22 | While firms wait for their luck to turn , investors are doing their best to ignore both the horrible results which companies have just begun to announce for last year and the recent sharp decline in bond prices . |
| 23 | erm You missed last week 's talk , which actually was quite lucky because the projector broke down , so it was n't a great success ; but last week , erm I talked about the beginning up to the eighteen thirties , Victorian costume , and really what I was trying to put across last time , was the fact that the nineteenth century saw the beginning of fashion for the masses . |
| 24 | ‘ You were seen trying to get in last night , Mr Glynn . ’ |
| 25 | Up at Lodge Road , Coleraine will be hoping to improve on last year 's performances . |
| 26 | Ok , here 's what the News Of The World ( cough , choke , vomit ! ! ) had to say about last Saturday 's game . |
| 27 | With a little gentle persuasion , Pipe encouraged Peter Scudamore to switch from his intended mount Valfinet , who finished 16th , to the winner who had fallen two flights out when poised to strike in last year 's race . |
| 28 | With a little gentle persuasion , Pipe encouraged Peter Scudamore to switch from his intended mount Valfinet , who finished 16th , to the winner who had fallen two flights out when poised to strike in last year 's race . |
| 29 | They can come in for a meal or a show and not have to worry about last trains , or driving back . |
| 30 | As Wolfgang Momberger of Steigenberger Hotels neatly put it in the Review of the World Travel & Tourism Environmental Research Centre ( WTTERC ) , published to coincide with last year 's Rio Earth Summit , ‘ We move , feed and accommodate hundreds of millions of people around the globe every year . |