Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] [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 | At present we 're spending much of our time at the hospital , as a visitor — because our mother 's turned up at last . |
| 6 | The forward order book has moved up since last month , but lags its long-term average ( 3.0 months ' work ) . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | She was cheated out of last night , and though she does not know it she is going to lose tomorrow night too . |
| 9 | last I got moved back in last night . |
| 10 | When the cheers and the clapping had died down at last , Don Mini stood up to make a speech . |
| 11 | She and Mandy had finally got in from last night 's fiasco around four in the morning . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Supply landing operation already laid on to last detail with Mid . |
| 19 | 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 ’ . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | This is what I had set out for last week . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ It 's gone up since last time , ’ I replied . |
| 23 | Then there is Test no.8 Tim Gavin who is making slow progress after being ruled out of last year 's World Cup because of damaged knee ligaments . |
| 24 | They were left over from last night . ’ |
| 25 | You are faced with half a packet of dusty dried peas , the unopened naan bread mix that seemed such a good idea at the time and the smoked oysters left over from last year 's Christmas hamper . |
| 26 | We 've even got one of Mum 's home-baked Christmas puddings left over from last year — ’ |
| 27 | Robinson was forced off during last Saturday 's 3–0 home defeat by leaders Blackburn and Clarkson suffered his injury playing in the reserves in midweek . |
| 28 | With about half a mile to go Elliott decided that it was time to make a move , and in a matter of a few strides Phar Lap had stormed up from last to first . |
| 29 | Every so of ten the dog would break away and belt off to splash in the shallows or to investigate something smelly , thrown up by last night 's tide . |
| 30 | Finally accepting that if they do n't hang together in the face of the threat from Microsoft Corp Windows NT , their Unix efforts will hang separately , Hewlett-Packard Co , IBM Corp , Sun Microsystems Inc , Unix System Laboratories Inc , Univel Inc and Santa Cruz Operation Inc lined up at last week 's UniForum trade show in San Francisco to announce a common desktop strategy for Unix workstation vendors ( UX No 427 ) . |