Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [prep] last " in BNC.
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1 | With bad blood carried over from last year 's clash between the two sides which saw Eric Rush retire from the fray with a broken wrist , the portents were not good . |
2 | Ball missed the opening three matches of the season because of a suspension carried over from last season , and then served a two match ban last month for reaching 21 points . |
3 | Lord Halifax and the other grand residents got us booted out at last . |
4 | On the economic front , the latest Dun and Bradstreet survey of UK business , carried out before last week 's increase in interest rates to 15 per cent , warned that the British economy was on the brink of a ‘ major slowdown ’ as high-interest policies produced a dramatic downturn in confidence . |
5 | Mr Bryan Atherton , director of finance at Teesdale district council , said their budget had come well within last year 's allowance . |
6 | Manufacturing in America contracted in April , the first time it has done so since last September . |
7 | At present we 're spending much of our time at the hospital , as a visitor — because our mother 's turned up at last . |
8 | The forward order book has moved up since last month , but lags its long-term average ( 3.0 months ' work ) . |
9 | One author missed out of last week 's round-up was Tom Jaine , editor of the Good Food Guide , who was named Restaurant Writer of the Year . |
10 | In contrast to the U.K. Home Market , where consumer expenditure has been curtailed , Export Sales have risen substantially on last years figures . |
11 | She was cheated out of last night , and though she does not know it she is going to lose tomorrow night too . |
12 | last I got moved back in last night . |
13 | When the cheers and the clapping had died down at last , Don Mini stood up to make a speech . |
14 | She and Mandy had finally got in from last night 's fiasco around four in the morning . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | If that point , which coach Douglas Morgan had amplified repeatedly in last week 's aftermath , still needs re-inforcing , the coach was at least able to reflect with satisfaction on the birth-pangs of Scotland 's try . |
18 | If that point , which coach Douglas Morgan had amplified repeatedly in last week 's aftermath , still needs re-inforcing , the coach was at least able to reflect with satisfaction on the birth-pangs of Scotland 's try . |
19 | ‘ You get people in tears coming into the pub just because they have got here at last . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | Dodemaide , the Sheffield Shield player of the year , has been recalled after a three-year absence , along with Matthews , who has not played internationally since last year 's tour of the West Indies . |
23 | 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 . |
24 | France , Italy and Spain , on the other hand , have slowed sharply since last summer , with industrial output now below its level a year ago in all three countries . |
25 | 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 . |
26 | Supply landing operation already laid on to last detail with Mid . |
27 | And the Beaubourg gallery has recent assemblages by the French sculptor César until 7 November : cut-out , compressed , superimposed statues of Communist leaders brought down by last summer 's events in Moscow and entitled ‘ Ave Lenin ’ . |
28 | He DID ask not to be selected for future B team games after being pulled off in last April 's second-string clash with the CIS . |
29 | Just how far the condition is from being any kind of a joke was vividly brought home in last night 's QED ( BBC1 ) , Night Terrors . |
30 | This is what I had set out for last week . ’ |