Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [noun sg] last " in BNC.
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| 1 | Technical details of the machine , developed at IBM 's Highly Parallel Supercomputing Systems Laboratories , were reported in detail last November following previews at Supercomputing ‘ 92 in Minneapolis ( UX No 412 ) . |
| 2 | He was discharged from hospital last night , with the full extent of the damage still not known , and manager Ian Porterfield admitted : ‘ This is a big , big blow for us . |
| 3 | They said their last guy got slung in jail last night . ’ |
| 4 | FORON was rescued from liquidation last year by the environmental group Greenpeace , which collected enough advance orders for the Clean Cooler to interest a British-Kuwaiti-German investment group in the firm . |
| 5 | Apparently not only had I collapsed on stage last night , but I was having intravenous chemotherapy between shows , sobbing and grimacing in agony in my dressing room . |
| 6 | She turned to see the maid-of-all-work from St Jude 's Rectory , whom she had met after church last Sunday , staring at her . |
| 7 | Murray Pugh , a trainee P-E teacher , was stabbed to death last weekend . |
| 8 | Doctor Elizabeth Howe , from Oxford , was stabbed to death last July while attending a summer school at York University . |
| 9 | Originally thought to be a separate species , the quagga was hunted to extinction last century , but its genes appear to have survived , dispersed among plains zebra . |
| 10 | The hotel which had been gutted by fire last year , re-opened for business during August . |
| 11 | Someone a few doors away had their house gutted by fire last week . |
| 12 | NORSK HYDRO , Norway 's largest industrial concern , which draws 90 per cent of its operating income from North Sea oil and gas , was helped into profit last year by a change in tax accounting methods . |
| 13 | I was told in confidence last week , so by next week it will be public , that there are to be 200 redundancies now , and the rest will , hopefully , be effected by natural wastage . |
| 14 | LONDON was plunged into chaos last night when two of its busiest rail stations were closed for three hours by a bomb scare . |
| 15 | Yesterday 's ballot was called after parliament last month failed to elect a president , with some deputies in the HZDS voting against party candidate Roman Kovac , who is Slovak vice premier and no relation of Michal Kovac . |
| 16 | Nearly £8m was invested in plant last year and another £9½m is earmarked this year . |
| 17 | The Trout Inn at Lower Wolvercote near Oxford was severely damaged by fire last November . |
| 18 | An empty house in Coxon Hill , Grove Hill , Middlesbrough , was badly damaged by fire last night . |
| 19 | A barn containing 100 tons of potatoes and 20 tons of straw on Yew Tree Farm in Burscough , West Lancs , was severely damaged by fire last night . |
| 20 | HORACE NOTICE , a former British and Commonwealth heavyweight boxing champion , was one of four men remanded in custody last night for a week accused of rioting at an acid house party . |
| 21 | He was remanded in custody last Tuesday and will make a fresh bail application tomorrow . |
| 22 | Paul Henderson , the head of Matrix-Churchill whose trial for supplying arms to Iraq was abandoned amid controversy last autumn , is writing a memoir which Bloomsbury will publish in October . |
| 23 | SHARP increases in the price of petrol and car tax discs were greeted with anger last night by Britain 's motoring organisations . |
| 24 | This is the depth of the nerve brought into play last week . |
| 25 | Now he talks of revoking some of the freedoms , including a freer press , that the Soviet parliament brought into being last year . |
| 26 | The issue had been brought into focus last September , when GATT condemned a US ban on the import from Mexico of drift-netted tuna , imposed on the grounds that it was leading to the deaths of dolphins and other marine mammals . |
| 27 | THE body of the pilot of a light aircraft missing over the North Pennine moors for six hours was found among wreckage last night . |
| 28 | Newall , who was arrested at sea last month , is accused of killing his wealthy parents Nicholas and Elizabeth in 1987 . |
| 29 | Roderick Newall , who has been held in Gibraltar since being arrested at sea last August , was kept in hospital for three hours ' observation before being returned to prison . |
| 30 | NORTHERN Ireland Minister Michael Mates was placed on probation last night after John Major publicly slapped him down in front of MPs . |