Example sentences of "[was/were] [pron] last [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ And where were you last night ? ’ |
2 | ‘ Where were you last night ? |
3 | ‘ So where were you last night ? ’ |
4 | Where the hell were you last night ? ’ |
5 | Decide why you did that rather than meeting A. Starter : A says , " Where were you last night ? " |
6 | ‘ Where were you last night ? ’ he asked . |
7 | He said where were you last night ? |
8 | He said the championships were his last event ; he was quitting swimming to concentrate on bodybuilding and his studies at Houghall Agricultural College , Durham , where he is training to be a shepherd . |
9 | This , sadly was my last foray for the month as I went down with an attack of bronchitis soon after this expedition , and form which I have not fully recovered . |
10 | She roasted a chicken and made a fresh fruit trifle for supper as it was my last night . |
11 | Anyway , more importantly , this was my last chance to escape . |
12 | Suddenly it came home to me with tremendous force that this was my last chance , the very last of all the countless chances I had thrown away just like this , because I had been too lazy or too proud to exploit them properly . |
13 | He said : ‘ It was my last chance to be a winner . |
14 | I thought at first that the sound , the terrorized shriek , was my last spurt , expressing itself . |
15 | ‘ That was my last job . ’ |
16 | My play was my last bid for recognition and the last occasion on which I was prepared to recognise the community in reciprocity . |
17 | ‘ I came here at the beginning of the week thinking that this was my last tournament for the year , maybe forever , ’ Evert said . |
18 | But , as Mrs Shand Kydd has stated : ‘ It was my last Christmas there for by now it had become apparent that the marriage had completely broken down . ’ |
19 | I tried to do it really well because it was my last grade . |
20 | That was my last meeting with Eliot until the end of hostilities . |
21 | There was an added incentive this year for the students as it was their last opportunity to catch the eye of Sue Rich , captain and selector of the British Team for the World Student Games which take place later this year . |
22 | When she finally came downstairs it was to find Carole insisting that , since this was their last night in the Hamptons before returning to the apartment in New York , she 'd arranged for them to have a romantic candle-lit dinner in their cottage . |
23 | It was their last night and Ruth turned her misty eyes to Fernando . |
24 | Everyone 's face was turned to him as if he was their last chance . |
25 | All the birds disappeared , of course , and since this was their last stronghold in Asia , the species was presumed extinct in its original range . |
26 | WHEN JOY Division recorded ‘ Closer ’ , they were n't to know it was their last album . |
27 | And here 's how they made it to the semi-finals ; not an easy run , Wakefield was their last step . |
28 | But it was her last film and after that I had to make do with Jean Simmons in Desirée . |
29 | He was her last resort now as well as his brother 's . |
30 | Thank goodness Timmy , who had hurt his knee at hockey practice , was her last patient scheduled at the walk-in clinic today . |