Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [prep] last " in BNC.
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| 31 | It 's still , it 's been , in the first two months it 's been going down on last year in volume terms . |
| 32 | She and Mandy had finally got in from last night 's fiasco around four in the morning . |
| 33 | The 46-year-old Exeter manager was drafted in for last month 's win over France at Wembley as the England manager cast around for a successor to the disgraced Steve Harrison . |
| 34 | Her patience paid off at last when she heard Miss Hardbroom tell the girls to pack up their books , and after much clattering and bustling , the door closed and the laboratory fell silent . |
| 35 | DESPITE only five villagers turning up to last week 's meeting , Kingsley residents are continuing to look into the possibility of a local neighbourhood help scheme . |
| 36 | Experts from 24 countries met in Trondheim , Norway , in May under the auspices of the UN Environment Programme ( UNEP ) to discuss implementation of the biodiversity treaty drawn up at last year 's Earth Summit in Rio . |
| 37 | Well , that Arthur turned up at last and the vicar married them , but afterwards me sister let Arthur know just 'ow she felt , she chucked the whole weddin' cake at 'im , then 'er bokey an' then a full bottle of port . |
| 38 | FOR a number of weeks leading up to last Sunday 's Dublin v Derry semi-final the name of Tommy Carr provided scope for hundreds of column inches in the sports pages of a section of the media . |
| 39 | But you had a bit of flare up A You flared up in last time you had came off it , did n't you ? |
| 40 | Bulls argue there are increasing signs that America 's manufacturers may be pulling out of last year 's recession , when the whole economy kept growing only because of the dominant service industries . |
| 41 | This win made up for last year 's defeat by Rob Orme when things just did n't go right for Dunlop . |
| 42 | But Sunday 's win should erase those ghosts , as well as make up for last year 's defeat to France in the final in Lyon . |
| 43 | As we have , therefore , travelled together through so many pages , let us behave to one another like fellow-travellers in a stage coach , who have passed several days in the company of each other : and who , notwithstanding any bickerings or little animosities which may have occurred on the road , generally make up at last , and mount for the last time into their vehicle with cheerfulness and good humour ; since after this one stage , it may possibly happen to us , as it commonly happens to them , never to meet more . |
| 44 | Donald McCulloch came back from ‘ the reel of Ballechin' long after his mother , and when he got up at last next morning , the cold porridge had been thrown out to the hens . |
| 45 | Thomas got up at last from his new place in the middle of the table , which he had quite liked because it had leg access to a rung where he could wriggle his feet when he was bored . |
| 46 | He got up at last and stared out of the window at the empty road and the gravel pits , grey in the dawn light . |
| 47 | That is bad news , and threatens a continuation of the debilitating battle between the government and the parliament that has dragged on since last November . |
| 48 | For this month 's design , I have taken the subject of Mediterranean ceramics , touched on in last month 's article and explored it a little further into the area of tiles . |
| 49 | The cones are now all flowing with pitch , and my hands are soon so covered with it that I can not easily cast down my booty when I would , it sticks to my fingers so ; and when I get down at last and have picked them up , I can not touch my basket with such hands but carry it on my arm , nor can I pick up my coat which I have taken off unless with my teeth — or else I kick it up and catch it on my arm . |
| 50 | When , worn down at last , he mentioned a man who lived as far away as Prudhoe , the polite picked up a young fellow known as Billy the Badger , which apparently had nothing to do with his poaching activities , but was given him because he always wore a white muffler , the ends tucked into his trouser tops , and on Sundays , when he wore his best , which was a black coat and trousers , his pointed face above this ensemble roughly depicted the night creature of the woods . |
| 51 | After the hearing in the court Alison Draper , who lives near the station , said : ‘ Nearly all the people here are against the festival because of the trouble we had to put up with last year . |
| 52 | American children whose mothers were called up during last year 's Gulf War felt they had been abandoned , an in-depth study of their feelings showed . |
| 53 | British electronics manufacturers are the most acquisitive in Europe , a fact borne out by last month 's £230 million purchase by ICL of Finnish computer company Nokia Data . |
| 54 | So are they looking for it to lead to a , sort of getting back to last week 's terminology , a restoration or , or are are they actually , do they know that they 're getting involved in a revolution ? |
| 55 | Yes , Milton manager , Keith Stock celebrated yet another birthday yesterday , and his team gave him something to celebrate with three points at Basement Club , Bishops Cleve this afternoon to see United extend their unbeaten record which stretches back to last October . |
| 56 | And , as any football-mad kid knows , there is nothing as embarrassing as mucking about in last season 's kit . |
| 57 | Gordon Taylor points out in last Friday 's Echo Soccer in Crisis investigation that not all players enjoy rich rewards from the game when their careers can be cut short . |
| 58 | If by any chance you DID manage to miss out on last months ' issue , fear not ! |
| 59 | Well thank you Chairman , I have to go back to last Wednesday afternoon , when I had a telephone call from a reporter from the Eastern Daily Press asking me to make a statement on the press release by Suffolk County Council stating that the Bungay bypass has been abandoned well Chairman I have to say that I was somewhat erm put out , because I did I disappoint I think because they , the Highway Department did n't have the courtesy to inform me first , and you can well imagine how I felt er having received this news . |
| 60 | The charges arose out of last summer 's internationally publicised ‘ sting ’ operation when FBI undercover agents in California 's silicon Valley formed a bogus company and posed as electronics dealers with trade secrets to sell ( New Scientist 1 July 1982 p 8–9 ) . |