Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] [num ord] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am the ‘ concerned parent ’ who initiated the survey of modes of travel to Currie High School which you filled in last year . |
| 2 | Labour MPs howled for a retrospective rebate in Scotland , where the poll tax came in last year . |
| 3 | Because you can never go back to yesterday , if you came in last year or five years ago , ten years ago or longer , some of you have been in the truth for many , many years and it is nearer now than it ever was when you first came along and joined Jehovah 's people and as it says the night is well along and if any of us have ever worked on the night shift , I think we 're all well aware are n't we that when the night is well along and |
| 4 | It 's a little like listening to those debates in parliament where parliament vote themselves extra salaries and I feel very uncomfortable in this process , I thought I might be coming here this morning to disagree with my own group , or those members of them that do n't agree with me , perhaps joined with the conservatives in opposing this motion , but I find in fact that everybody is saying oh let's put up the er , the heading , I feel very uncomfortable with this having spent six months in the budget review , criticising officers up hill and down dale every time that they exceeded their budget , having told them that either they balance their budget or that they came in next year with a budget with no more than a one and a half percent increase , or their successors would be doing it for us . |
| 5 | No I was sorry I missed him when he came over last year . |
| 6 | I think obviously erm as they 've already shown when they came over last year , that they are very very big , very physical , and erm there are there are erm a fast pacy outfit , but erm I think erm obviously with the players that are selected , that we can obviously cope with that . |
| 7 | Unlike other UK retailers in the Canadian market — Boots came out last year and Marks & Spencer has been struggling to break even — WH Smith has shown profits growth . |
| 8 | There 's a couple of enlarged pages from Christian Aid book , Raw Deal , Trade and the World 's Poor , which came out last year ? |
| 9 | High-flying Norwich had a £1 million approach for Armstrong turned down last year . |
| 10 | When the borders opened up last year , they realised they had the worst . |
| 11 | Their working day is a succession of lessons for which they have either prepared something interesting , dug out last year 's notes , decided to just do the next bit in ‘ the book ’ , or are unprepared . |
| 12 | As for Monica Seles , her desire to play at Wimbledon this year , coupled with the fact that she already has the Australian title under her belt , might be all the incentive that she needs to go for that Grand Slam this year , that same Grand Slam which she passed up last year with her refusal to play the British leg of the four majors . |
| 13 | We do n't you know we 've got clubs still waiting that we signed up last year . |
| 14 | The Governor 's brutally candid assessment struck a new blow to Mr Major as he grappled with two crises : the threat of a crippling defeat for the Government tomorrow night , and a Cabinet deadlocked over next year 's spending plans . |
| 15 | The Governor 's brutally candid assessment struck a new blow to Mr Major as he grappled with two crises : the threat of a crippling defeat for the Government tomorrow night , and a Cabinet deadlocked over next year 's spending plans . |
| 16 | The iceberg was 155 km long until it broke up last year . |
| 17 | Since that time , little has changed on the battlefield ; with a plentiful supply of Chinese arms and money , and bases in Thailand from which to operate , the Khmer Rouge was strong enough to resist the Vietnamese , But when Vietnam pulled out last year , the stalemate was broken ; Britain and the United States who 'd been backing other less murderous guerrilla factions , began to tire of the war and withdrew their support . |
| 18 | Their last victory was in 1991 when they lost out last year to the Leinster champions Terenure who are the favourites to win tomorrow . |
| 19 | Woodhill Echo went on last year to win a £1,000 open at Brough Park before finishing third in the Scottish Derby . |
| 20 | As a result of deflation , productivity in Britain went down last year , whereas in Germany it went up . |
| 21 | Following a stately early development , the TSB Group is now undergoing rapid change — new products , new services , new technology , even new companies such as United Dominions Trust , the instalment credit company which we took over last year . |
| 22 | Joanna Trollope , for example , really took off last year . |
| 23 | The percentage went up last year , but the amount of the levy is still set to fall over the 1990s . |
| 24 | I suggest after we get the bill else it 'll it went up last year |
| 25 | That compares with an estimated 200,000 cocaine users and seizures by the police went up last year by 3,500% . |
| 26 | oh they went up last year , er , I just forget now , so much on the mile er |
| 27 | A decision to cut or pass the dividend will be especially painful for Costain because of the blow it will be for the 91 per cent of shareholders who took up last year 's rights issue and because Costain will be only the second major contractor , after John Laing , to cut the pay-out . |
| 28 | er and of course I 've known Walter for years but I do n't know his wife , I 've never met his wife and of course not being able to get out into the street now , I should get out for about two years after I lost my husband and then I got this er awful pain nobody knows unless they have it er this arthritis in my knees , you see , and erm and then I found that it was too much for me to er otherwise I used to walk up to the post box road and I used to count the steps , three hundred and something steps there and three hundred and something back , you see , and to the front door , you see , but I , I ca n't do it now but I have with help and I went out last year with er Mrs and er twice we went to Dulwich which I enjoyed and so did she and the last time we went to and er we had our lunch and we went to see my cousins at West Suffolk and and , and then came home again , you see , and that 's the only time I went out last year and usually I used to go to for a day and I am hoping that if I , I am hoping , well you can only hope , that I might perhaps go so out one Sunday , once , just once in the , you see , because er , th that 's when when you 're old you 've got to keep , you 've got to hope for something |
| 29 | er and of course I 've known Walter for years but I do n't know his wife , I 've never met his wife and of course not being able to get out into the street now , I should get out for about two years after I lost my husband and then I got this er awful pain nobody knows unless they have it er this arthritis in my knees , you see , and erm and then I found that it was too much for me to er otherwise I used to walk up to the post box road and I used to count the steps , three hundred and something steps there and three hundred and something back , you see , and to the front door , you see , but I , I ca n't do it now but I have with help and I went out last year with er Mrs and er twice we went to Dulwich which I enjoyed and so did she and the last time we went to and er we had our lunch and we went to see my cousins at West Suffolk and and , and then came home again , you see , and that 's the only time I went out last year and usually I used to go to for a day and I am hoping that if I , I am hoping , well you can only hope , that I might perhaps go so out one Sunday , once , just once in the , you see , because er , th that 's when when you 're old you 've got to keep , you 've got to hope for something |
| 30 | The pressures that brought about last year 's downgradings will intensify , says Vickie Tillman , Standard & Poor 's managing director responsible for municipals . |