Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [verb] [num ord] week " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , my theory that I was proposing last week about preferential parental investment in sexy sons or little boys who showed phallic behaviour , is a consequence of the Trivers Willard principle , because basically what it says is that little boys who advertised , as it were , in their childhood , evidence of their own adult reproductive success by precocious sexuality towards the women of the family and aggression towards the males , might be rewarded by preferential parental investment , a Trivers Willard effect in other words , and if , when they grew up , those oedipal sexy sons were in fact more reproductively successful , then the result would be a kind of self-perpetuating cycle of parental investment in oedipal sons who then grew up to be more reproductively successful than non-oedipal sons and , and so on . |
| 2 | Well I think the the er other point I was making last week was that erm this whole are of learning theory is erm y'know a very traditional area . |
| 3 | That 's what I was quoted last week . |
| 4 | A STRATHCLYDE region official has ‘ unreservedly apologised ’ for remarks linking genetics and the intelligence of Asian and black children which were condemned last week by community leaders . |
| 5 | THE RESULTS of the June agricultural census for 1992 , which were published last week by the Scottish Office Agriculture and Fisheries Department , show substantial increases in the areas of wheat , oilseed rape , and fallow land . |
| 6 | PRESIDENT REAGAN 'S decision to sell off the United States 's weather satellites , which was announced last week , has thrown the world 's meteorological community into confusion . |
| 7 | Health union officials say as many as a hundred and fifty jobs could be lost with the closure of the hospital which was confirmed last week after months of speculation . |
| 8 | BRITAIN 'S doctors seem set to turn back the tide of support for cheap unbranded drugs — against the recommendation of the Greenfield report which was published last week . |
| 9 | One unremarked effect of the white Paper on cabling , which was published last week jointly by the Home Office and the Department of Industry , is to undermine the BBC 's monopoly on a second broadcasting revolution set for later this decade — direct broadcasting from satellites ( DBS ) . |
| 10 | The Education ( Schools ) Bill , which was published last week , aims to do precisely that . |
| 11 | Tor goes off to a cottage up the hill from the bay and comes back disconsolate , having been told to ‘ piss off ’ by the occupants who were robbed last week and are not in any mood to offer the traditional Norwegian hospitality to a motley collection of bedraggled canoeists . |
| 12 | She was suspended last week . |
| 13 | Well his sister 's erm a social worker as well in Manchester and she was going next week to spend a year in Romania |
| 14 | THE vigilante businessman who was cleared last week of murdering a suspected car vandal was jailed for 18 months yesterday for an alternative charge of affray . |
| 15 | Michael Morris will sit in for Betty Boothroyd … the first woman Speaker , who was elected last week . |
| 16 | Michael Morris will sit in for Betty Boothroyd … the first woman Speaker , who was elected last week . |
| 17 | Scotland must win the Malta game by a convincing margin , yet Roxburgh could be without McCoist , the scorer of 41 goals for Rangers this season , and Gordon Durie , who was withdrawn last week because of injury . |
| 18 | and we were informed last week that |
| 19 | But they were thrashed last week by Wolves . |
| 20 | They were arrested last week in an operation linked to a swoop by armed police officers . |
| 21 | It was re-coated last week ! |
| 22 | As well as Fizz , it was revealed last week that Trine Svendsen , played by 14-year-old Danish actress Marchell Betak , is also being written out . |
| 23 | Well it , it was adjourned last week for him to with instructions your worship . |
| 24 | Well it was adjourned last week but er instructions Your Worships . |
| 25 | About 30pc of visitors to last year 's Darlington show got in without paying , it was disclosed last week . |
| 26 | The company said it was advised last week by the US Federal Trade Commission that no objection would be raised to the acquisition of up to 15 per cent of Jaguar shares . |
| 27 | But apparently it was stolen last week . |
| 28 | He was joined last week by a handful of defeated Liberal Democrats including Nicol Stephen , who won Kincardine and Deesside the same night Dr Kumar won Langbaurgh November 7 . |
| 29 | The other occasion that we looked that , er a week or so back when he called down Zaccheus , from that tree in which he was hiding last week his judge , Pilate but of all of those interviews and th the many others that we have n't looked at , this surely must one of the strangest , as Jesus himself is in the process of dying and as he is dying he is confronted with another person who has a need . |
| 30 | ‘ He was training last week and two little lads came in the gym , and immediately Eubank stopped what he was doing and started to teach them how to box — you 've no idea just how much he loves being a champion . ’ |