Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] [verb] [prep] last " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it 's only now , 17 years after her death , that the first lady of crime fiction has at last acquired a fan club . |
| 2 | The Company-wide employee programmes described in last year 's report have continued during 1992 . |
| 3 | Recent legislation had improved matters , however ; the 1833 Factory Act prohibited the employment of young children and the 1847 Ten Hours Act had at last given working people some time for recreation . |
| 4 | Digital Equipment Corp has at last announced its OSF/1 Unix-based operating system for Alpha-based AXP systems , giving its Alpha hardware customers an alternative to VMS . |
| 5 | IBM Corp has at last woken up to the fact that to remain competitive in the personal computer business , it is necessary constantly to add new models , and in the US , the company yesterday added new 80486-based PS/1 models based on chips ranging from the 25MHz 80486SX to the 66MHz 80486DX2 ; they come in desktop and minitower configurations and are available now at prices expected to go from $1,200 to $3,000 ; they are upgradable to the Pentium . |
| 6 | After last week 's boat debacle , the tale takes a stranger twist with a mysterious telephone advert placed in last week 's NME asking ‘ Who 's Taking The Pistols ? ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He continued to urge Canterbury 's supremacy over York , and in the general settlement of 1107 , Archbishop Gerard promised at last to show him the same obedience as archbishop as he had owed as bishop of Hereford . |
| 9 | OWNERS whose homes have crashed in value will have to pay the new council tax based on LAST YEAR 'S higher prices . |
| 10 | Mr Simon Heffer argued in last week 's Spectator that welfarism is once more coming to characterise the British , having been repulsed during the Thatcher years : ‘ The plaintive , dependent-relative voice of the something-for-nothing society , heard on almost every street in this campaign , was a little harder to find five years ago . ’ |
| 11 | Tangerine 's dance dreams started in last summer 's raves |
| 12 | Talking points : How has B's behaviour changed from last time ? |
| 13 | As the mysterious man following Blackeyes , Nigel Planer speaks at last , though he has damn all to say . |
| 14 | The work at Llandrindod Wells lake has at last revealed the answer . |
| 15 | ‘ Flying Scotsman 's ’ spare corridor tender has at last been purchased and delivered to the Morpeth works of Ian Storey Engineering . |
| 16 | After a meeting with Syria 's President Hafez al-Assad in Damascus , the US secretary of state , Warren Christopher , said he was optimistic about resuming peace talks suspended since last December . |
| 17 | Another up-and-coming Middlesbrough and Cleveland athlete , Jeffrey Anderson , is recovering from a hamstring injury received in last month 's Mandale Open meeting . |
| 18 | First-timers spot bargains as home market moves at last . |
| 19 | A GOVERNMENT minister yesterday promised emergency cash aid to bail out areas of North Wales devastated by last week 's ‘ storm of the century . ’ |
| 20 | Basketball Riders gallop on last legs . |
| 21 | He said Mr Lamont declared in last year 's Budget he had ‘ no need , no proposals and no plans either to raise or to extend the scope of VAT ’ . |
| 22 | Hundreds of thousands of workers can expect up to £65 each after many firms failed to bring in the new 20p tax rate introduced in last April 's Budget . |
| 23 | The Phantom and Teardrop which Eddie Allen looked at last month were made by Paul Chandler in the USA . |
| 24 | ‘ Let him be , ’ Uncle Nick said at last . |
| 25 | The engine ran in Japan last month in a development chassis based on last year 's turbocar . |
| 26 | Channel 4 's comedy department has at last found the right format for a cabaret star — by going back to the innocent childhood of TV comedy . |
| 27 | According to French sources , the problems with the Longines Classic started at last year 's event when , though the sponsors paid out the prize money , it did not reach the players . |
| 28 | A serious feminist critique of masculinity and male power was long overdue ; Lynne Segal has at last provided it . |
| 29 | ‘ You must be crazy , ’ Pietro Miletti said at last . |
| 30 | No idea of the nicest , but the nastiest was our January '91 cover with the words ‘ Jesus Jones Arrive At Last ’ — the words ‘ On The Front Of The NME ’ were conspicuously absent . |