Example sentences of "[be] [adv prt] [prep] last " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's an oil stain beneath it , but I bet it has n't been on since last February . |
| 2 | Because the machine 's been down since last Thursday . |
| 3 | Thames Valley police caught one hundred and fifty four … that s down on last years one hundred and ninety nine . |
| 4 | Almost a third of group profits are earned overseas , interest and tax charges are down on last year and gearing stands at 13 per cent . |
| 5 | They will point out , as you yourself have done recently , that despite the Boro 's Fortress Ayresome performances , attendances are down on last year hovering around the 15,000 mark . |
| 6 | " You 're back at last ! |
| 7 | Thank heavens you 're back at last ! ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Sales are up on last year . |
| 9 | Entries are up on last year but they come mainly from ‘ middle of the road ’ competitors whose goal will be finishing rather than winning this marathon . |
| 10 | ‘ Takings are up on last year and we have n't had a price rise in over twelve months . ’ |
| 11 | Oh have you all noticed just how many Scum vidoes are out for last season ? ? |
| 12 | At the half-year stage profits are expected to be down on last year — around £35m against £39m . |
| 13 | On the eve of bonfire night safety officers say they 're hopeful that the number of firework accidents will be down on last year . |
| 14 | The tents were up ; the fires were lit ; everyone sounded cheerful , happy to be off at last . |
| 15 | Talk was that it would be out by last autumn . |
| 16 | The chief executive , Partick Dromgoole , said sales in September were down on last year . |
| 17 | Their expertise lies in enabling others and others to take advantage of arts facilities and helping them erm or working with them to produce the things that happen , for example all the erm posters which were up during last years festival erm were produced in conjunction with community arts which erm has erm er produced on Ditchfern Place , erm and earlier this morning I was thinking that up as I think other councillors did , that more serious of projects which community arts are now entering into er in Chesterton in particularly in the children erm I think councillors went to Dickfield women 's photograph project and it is things like that about giving people confidence to join arts in a way erm with which they might never otherwise have experienced and the community arts have taken just that . |
| 18 | ‘ I do n't know , I 'm sure , what you two were up to last night , and it 's none of my business , but it 's a great pity that Carole has packed her bags , ’ she said . |
| 19 | ‘ Whatever you and Peter were up to last night , ’ he went on savagely , ‘ it was n't enough to satisfy you . |
| 20 | Some of her family and friends who knew that her marriage was unsuccessful may assume that her feelings about her husband 's death could only be those of relief that their life together is over at last and that she is now free to seek a better future for herself ; not realising that if a woman has lived with a man for many years , unless he has treated her with extreme cruelty , and shown her no love at all throughout the whole of their marriage , some kind of bond is bound to have existed between them , and that even if he left her with only a handful of good memories of times they spent together , it is likely that she may want to hold on to them , cherish them , and even build upon them . |
| 21 | DIPLOMA SEES STRONG EVIDENCE THAT UK RECESSION REALLY IS OVER AT LAST |
| 22 | THE WAITING GAME IS OVER AT LAST |
| 23 | sales that were left over from the open show , three pound thirty fourteen pound ten for the collection , now that is as you see , that is over from last year last year the table show so we actually have double the number of entries on the bench this year which is a healthy sign |
| 24 | Now retired as chaplain of Kingham School he 's off at last with his crew … |
| 25 | Ah , this was what he was on about last night . |
| 26 | We 're in it every day now and Tommy was on like last night when I went in , Tommy was on to now say it . |
| 27 | ‘ We were pleased with the turn-out , although the number of exhibitors was down on last year , ’ said show secretary Ernie Ruddick . |
| 28 | It was over at last . |
| 29 | Suddenly , it seemed , the war was over at last , and Churchill announced on the wireless that 8 May would be Victory in Europe Day . |
| 30 | Although they showed a monetary loss , the number of members recruited was up on last year . |