Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] last [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later the same morning Luke asked Merrill to list the dates of some previous meetings with a particular client , and Merrill , leafing through last year 's desk diary , came upon Elise 's name and address . |
| 2 | ‘ The show in the Village Troy was yabbering about last night , remember ? |
| 3 | Elsewhere in the capital , the Royal Lyceum claims it is recovering after last year 's £1.2 million debt crisis and ticket sales which were 10 to 15 per cent below target . |
| 4 | We 've gone from strength to strength from there qualifying for last year 's UK Team Chase Championships . |
| 5 | She lost 7–5 6–3 to Seles in the quarter-finals after disposing of last year 's finalist Jana Novotna , but she showed enough , as he has done before , to show the rest of the watching world that she is a major force waiting to erupt . |
| 6 | Producing three pages of detailed questions relating to last year 's accounts may entitle an interviewer to draw an adverse conclusion . |
| 7 | The Damages ( Scotland ) Act covers the cases of anyone dying since last July , when the bill was first raised by the Labour peer Lord Macaulay of Bragar in the House of Lords . |
| 8 | Well it might be worth looking through last year 's list in the day . |
| 9 | The biggest police operation of its kind in the county ended successfully yesterday when Leonard Featherstone , 56 , of Tudwick Road , Tiptree , his son Brett , 24 , from the same address and Kenneth Hammond , 36 , of Banters Lane , Great Leighs admitted a total of 55 charges concerning false tacograph entries dating from last March . |
| 10 | The biggest police operation of its kind in the county ended successfully yesterday when Leonard Featherstone , 56 , of Tudwick Road , Tiptree , his son Brett , 24 , from the same address and Kenneth Hammond , 36 , of Banters Lane , Great Leighs admitted a total of 55 charges concerning false tachograph entries dating from last March . |
| 11 | I was chided for implying in last month 's notes that Somerset looked rather a better bet than Gloucestershire . |
| 12 | Already Mrs Thatcher was looking beyond last night 's result . |
| 13 | According to last year 's appraisal sheet I should have undergone training in : |
| 14 | According to last week 's gossip , Sparc licencees Fujitsu Ltd and LSI Logic have been talking to DEC about Alpha ( UX No 385 ) . |
| 15 | K-III , the publishing arm of buyout specialists Kohlberg Kravis Roberts , has emerged as a leading bidder for Macmillan Inc in what looks set to be a keenly fought bid battle , according to last week 's Independent on Sunday . |
| 16 | According to last week 's fascinating piece in the Organ by Publishers Weekly 's bookselling boffin John Mutter , the newly emerging ‘ chain superstores ’ in the US are taking the market by storm , with ‘ 15,000 to 30,000 sq ft of selling space and stock between 75,000 and 125,000 titles ’ . |
| 17 | The latest on Frank according to last nights local rag : — |
| 18 | The CIA 's code of conduct , which has been operating since last April , is now an integral part of the association 's Responsible Care programme , to which all CIA member companies have now signed up . |
| 19 | Funding Silotank has been operating since last year , but was officially opened yesterday at a reception attended by representatives of the organisations which have supplied funding for the venture . |
| 20 | She had that envelope out again , the one that his Dad had been looking at last night . |
| 21 | Yeah , we do n't , we do n't seem to have a Vice Chairman , looking at last years |
| 22 | Now what were we looking at last time ? |
| 23 | Is that likely to happen this year then paying for last year ? |
| 24 | And tt Jan was er was er wondering during last year and went on to hormone replacement therapy because she was and the doctor was a bit concerned about possible osteoporosis which is erm brittle bone |
| 25 | But , going into last week 's championships in her home state of California , she had signed no new commercial deals since the Olympics and her advertising endorsements were restricted to an appearance on a cereal box . |
| 26 | Goodway , now of Wigan , disappointed Reilly deeply by withdrawing from last year 's tour for personal reasons which seemed less than urgent , but the coach has sensibly decided against holding grudges . |
| 27 | Poor dear David Marquis , mid-nervous breakdown owing to last night 's appalling Box Office receipts , has left at 8 a.m . |
| 28 | ‘ Not on a degree course but at the Cultural Centre for Foreigners where they 've been going since last September . ’ |
| 29 | Going by last night apparently , ordinary roast . |
| 30 | With the folks back home still seething after last week 's World Cup disaster in Norway , Taylor 's future is on a knife-edge . |