Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] [vb pp] [prep] last " in BNC.
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| 1 | Doubts were expressed about last week 's rumour of moves to end steel price control . |
| 2 | THE familiar imbalance of quart and pint pot meant that the final three paragraphs were omitted from last Friday 's piece on Shotton Comrades ' under 19 team . |
| 3 | The step which for decades successive tsars had contemplated but abandoned in the face of noble opposition was taken at last . |
| 4 | L.G.M. Rees , the pilot of the Sunderland reported : ‘ My aircraft was launched at last light the evening before the sortie since it was dangerous at that time to leave an aircraft on moorings in daylight where it could be easy prey to enemy aircraft . |
| 5 | Farnham R.C. were represented in last weekend 's Surrey League road race . |
| 6 | The 11-year-old hound was spotted at last , less than four miles from home , and although frightened and hungry , was picked up safe and well . |
| 7 | Kurdish detainees at Harmondsworth were released after last week 's fire , which also left one man seriously injured . |
| 8 | If the alliance is to be understood as a means to that end , it was also an announcement that the kleindeutsch solution of the German problem had come to stay ; the Habsburgs had no more to fear from Prussia and the corpses of Königgrätz were buried at last . |
| 9 | Osorio was finished at last , and on 16 October , a few days before his twenty-fifth birthday , he sent a copy of the play , ‘ complete & neatly transcribed ’ , to William Lisle Bowles in Wiltshire . |
| 10 | The announcement of the stockpile was predicted in last week 's New Scientist ( 10 February , p 357 ) . |
| 11 | Now the declaration of her age on the death certificate was out of her control , the truth was listed at last . |
| 12 | But if their record was added to last season 's run-in , which yielded five wins from the last six , then their 12 victories amount to the number Neston secured to win in 1992 . |
| 13 | No clusters of HEV occurred when seropositive persons were grouped by last name or street address . |
| 14 | The idea of UN policing of the Bosnian-Serbian border was agreed to last December . |
| 15 | The announcement that Mr Hunt , as current Employment Secretary , would take over responsibility for women 's affairs was made at last week 's Tory Women 's Conference and sparked outrage from Labour MPs and women 's lobby groups . |
| 16 | Ruddock 's transfer request was slapped in last Friday and Sugar is ready to sell him even though the £2 million-rated player was a huge success in his first season back at Spurs . |
| 17 | Hundreds of trees were lost in last year 's storms and ‘ the garden in the wood ’ suffered much damage . |
| 18 | And his gallant countrymen were beaten at last . |
| 19 | The inquiry was set up after Ben Johnson was disqualified at last year 's Olympics . |
| 20 | Mainly because of Mr Pramual 's opposition a much needed increase in interest rates was delayed until last week . |
| 21 | It has also made more conservative estimates of reserves in some of its fields , though the impact was reduced by last week 's Budget announcement that petroleum revenue tax was being cut from 75 to 50 per cent . |
| 22 | The changes in Eastern Europe were recognised in last year 's survey to be of long term importance only . |
| 23 | A tiny circle of bright brass was found at last in the fishing tackle cupboard , slipped over Victoria 's finger and proudly displayed to the rest of the party . |
| 24 | Their seventh century opening stand in 14 Tests together safely established , the openers were separated at last when the younger man was bowled by Akram , who pitched around leg and hit the off stump at sped . |
| 25 | That 's why a number of clubs were represented at last night 's reserve game against Coventry . |
| 26 | At each stage the vested interests — of protected tenants , of council tenants , and of local and national politicians — in the system , grew stronger and more complex , so that the wonder is not that it lived so long but that two men were found at last , in Duncan Sandys and Henry Brooke , of sufficient courage and determination to lay the axe to the roots and start hewing a way back to sanity . |
| 27 | The following exhibitions were listed in last month 's column and deserve recognition before they close : the large exhibition of sculpture , paintings and miniatures by Francesco Clemente at Anthony d'Offay ( to 30 April ) , Catherine Lee 's beautifully patinated wall reliefs at Annely Juda |
| 28 | The following exhibitions were discussed in last month 's issue and are recommended to readers : Sean Scully 's convincing demonstration of abstract art at Waddington ( to 23 December ) , the new graphic works of Roy Lichtenstein at Mayor ( to 23 December ) , theatre paintings by Sickert at Browse and Darby ( to 23 December ) , Bernard Jacobson 's handsome selection of paintings by Stanley Spencer ( to 5 December ) , with Spencer 's drawings at Dover Street Gallery ( to 18 December ) , and a fine installation of Grenville Davey 's sculpture at Chisenhale ( to 13 December ) . |
| 29 | The following exhibitions were discussed in last month 's column in Il Giornale dell'Arte : Victor Pasmore 's new paintings and prints at Marlborough ( to 23 October ) , works on paper by Robert Kushner at Mayor ( to 31 October ) , twelve biomorphic paintings by Ed Albers , with ten drawings from the estate of Arshile Gorky , at Salama-Caro ( to 7 November ) , new photographs by Andreas Gursky at Victoria Miro ( to 16 October ) and Andy Goldsworthy 's floor of clay at Turske-Hue-Williams ( to 31 October ) . |
| 30 | The following exhibitions were discussed in last month 's issue and should be noted : sculpture and drawings by Eduardo Chillida at Annely Juda ( to 14 November ) , works on paper by Bridget Riley at Karsten Schubert ( to 14 November ) , seven sculptures and a strong selection of graphic works by Elizabeth Frink at Lumley Cazalet ( to 13 November ) , ‘ Three Score and Ten ’ , the seventieth birthday exhibition of Albert Irvin at Gimpel ( to 21 November ) , the second part of Adrian Wiczniewski 's new paintings , drawings and neon sculpture at William Jackson ( to 21 November ) , Andy Goldsworthy 's clay floor at Turske-Hue-Williams ( to 27 November ) , the large sculptures of Jeff Lowe at Maak ( to 20 November ) , Fantastic Works on Paper at RAAB 's Millbank branch and the paintings of Jean-Michel Basquiat and Robert Combas at Crane ( to 3 December ) . |