Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb pp] [prep] last " in BNC.
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| 1 | The branch is still reeling from the losses suffered at last year 's polls . |
| 2 | This fool butterfly must have been a chrysallis — there are a million tortoiseshells pirouetting on the purple flowers all the warm months — a chrysallis left from last August . |
| 3 | The Egyptian theme was taken up y the caterers — dressed in costumes designed for last sumnmer 's Earl 's Court production of ’ Aida ’ . |
| 4 | Higgins , came up in front of snooker 's ruling body , the WPBSA , to answer charges of offences committed during last November 's UK championship in Preston . |
| 5 | Those responsible for programmes of visits in the three Overseas Groups then reported on visits made since last October . |
| 6 | The 1993 LIBF had a distinctly European feel : the number of overseas visitors compared with last year rose from 1,868 to 2,462 , an increase of 32% . |
| 7 | Teeth cleaned at last . |
| 8 | Credits omitted from last month 's travellers photo story : film courtesy of Fuji Professional , black and white prints by Danny Chan , colour by ETA colour labs |
| 9 | Fairy Tales by Terry Jones ( Puffin , £1.95 ) CHRISTMAS BEST-SELLERS Based on last week 's sales in the children 's department of Waterstone 's in Edinburgh : 1 Rhyming Stew by Roald Dahl ( Jonathan Cape , £7.95 ) 2 Oi Get Off Our Train by John Burningham ( Jonathan Cape , £7.95 ) 3 Matilda by Roald Dahl 4 The Lion , The Witch and The Wardrobe by CSLewis ( Fontana Lion , £2.25 ) 5 Prince Caspian by CSLewis ( Fontana Lion , £2.25 ) 6 Almost Everything There Is To Know by Tim Hunkin ( Pyramid Books , £4.95 ) 7 The Complete Tales of Beatrix Potter ( Frederick Warne , £20 ) 8 Budgie The Helicopter by HRHDuchess of York ( Simon & Schuster , £4.95 ) 9 The Way Things Work by David MacAuley ( Dorling Kindersley , £14.95 ) 10 Peace At Last by Jill Murphy ( Walker , £6.95 ) THE YEAR 'S BEST-SELLERS Supplied by Jane Churchill at Children 's Bookcentre in Kensington , London : |
| 10 | Three exhibition catalogues generated by last year 's quasi-celebrations |
| 11 | Heavy rain driven by gales predicted for last night was forecast to continue for much of today . |
| 12 | The new plants mentioned in last year 's report have all progressed satisfactorily . |
| 13 | ‘ Despite the toughest trading conditions for many years , most of our businesses improved on last year 's profits . ’ |
| 14 | THE SMALL £5 in the corner ( as in pay no more than ) is a good introduction to Sofa Head 's second album , and inside it shrewdly builds on the foundations set by last year 's ‘ Pre Marital Yodelling ’ . |
| 15 | THE SMALL £5 in the corner ( as in pay no more than ) is a good introduction to Sofa Head 's second album , and inside it shrewdly builds on the foundations set by last year 's ‘ Pre Marital Yodelling ’ . |
| 16 | The French allotment was many times oversubscribed by last Monday and the price on the Parisian grey market , where shares are unoffically traded before issue , has been as high as Fr95 , compared to an issue price of Fr72 . |
| 17 | I 'd just like to make two or three points first of all the exchange factor which Frank touched upon when , when talking about profits you probably all totally familiar but I have forgotten quite how much the dollar has strengthened recently beginning of the year it was nearly two dollars and the result of that is that for the erm first half as a whole the impact of er exchange translation was adverse for our profits compared with last year to the tune of about one and a half million pounds . |
| 18 | PASSENGERS hurt in last December 's Severn Tunnel train crash will each receive up to £20,000 compensation . |
| 19 | It has : the expansive airport on the north Texas plains is the world 's second busiest — 50m passengers passed through last year . |
| 20 | passengers passed through last year and there were 96,575 flights . |
| 21 | AN army of glaziers is at work in the City , battling to repair the thousands of windows shattered by last Friday 's IRA bomb . |
| 22 | That is probably the worst one day figure which happened , as I say , combination of war and the snow , when the shops were pretty well closed off , and yes we certainly saw figures that , on a day for day basis to last year , they were seventy five per cent down , but cumulative I mean the position 's much better than that erm nowhere near that sort of figure , and erm we are very confident that the summer market for overseas holidays will recover steadily and we 'd be very surprised if , by the end of September , we 're more than five or six per cent down on summer holiday bookings compared to last year , and we 're confident enough to have brought back our campaigns and our advertising starts this week , and we 've even been confident enough to announce to our staff that their annual salary review will take place on the first of April as scheduled . |
| 23 | But , as with the examples given in last month 's article , the solution has two stages . |
| 24 | ( 1983 ) , who used partial data ( unemployment registers classified by last employment ) for the period 1979–82 to conclude that the regional north/south split was as important as the urban/rural split , and that future growth would probably be dominated by free-standing towns in the ‘ sun-belt ’ of the southeast . |
| 25 | It was on his prompting that ethnic drop-out youths were now accepted onto college courses without formal qualifications ; it was on his urging that examinations were now being set and marked in Urdu and other minority languages , the faculties shamed at last out of their insistence that English was the only language in the world that counted . |
| 26 | The two counties met in last year 's Ulster final at Armagh and in one of the best games seen in the province all year Tyrone came from behind in the second half to pull off a memorable victory after having been reduced to fourteen players . |
| 27 | The Dean crowd and their successors had been smoking as a regular habit ten years earlier but only now , at the height of the Vietnam crisis , when the futility of the war was beginning to dawn with the return of disillusioned young soldiers prepared at last to tell the truth , were drugs beginning to appear on the American campus scene and in London streets in any volume . |
| 28 | He is merely suspected of not having told the authorities of a 50 million lire ( £21,000 ) contribution to the costs of having election posters printed in last April 's general election . |
| 29 | After a meeting with Syria 's President Hafez al-Assad in Damascus , the US secretary of state , Warren Christopher , said he was optimistic about resuming peace talks suspended since last December . |
| 30 | The Company-wide employee programmes described in last year 's report have continued during 1992 . |