Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] last [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The company seems to have been forgiven for its oil spill in the Mersey estuary in 1989 ; it came third in ‘ community and environmental responsibility ’ , only one place down from last time . |
| 2 | With bad blood carried over from last year 's clash between the two sides which saw Eric Rush retire from the fray with a broken wrist , the portents were not good . |
| 3 | Ball missed the opening three matches of the season because of a suspension carried over from last season , and then served a two match ban last month for reaching 21 points . |
| 4 | Yes , I mean it 's not the whole of the market , admittedly , and we are still encouraging our own countrymen to take a holiday in this country erm but if one 's blunt about it , yes , it 's erm a large sector of the market and one that is , one we 've got to get back to come up to last year 's levels . |
| 5 | Jackson — forced to pull out of last year 's World Championship final when he suddenly suffered shoulder spasms minutes before the race — declared : ‘ I wo n't make the same mistakes again . |
| 6 | The deal is a timely boost for Scotland 's top steeplechase after a long , fruitless search for support following the decision by William Hill , sponsor for the past 15 years , to pull out after last year 's race . |
| 7 | On the economic front , the latest Dun and Bradstreet survey of UK business , carried out before last week 's increase in interest rates to 15 per cent , warned that the British economy was on the brink of a ‘ major slowdown ’ as high-interest policies produced a dramatic downturn in confidence . |
| 8 | Mr Bryan Atherton , director of finance at Teesdale district council , said their budget had come well within last year 's allowance . |
| 9 | ‘ I saw that sort you 've been knocking about with last night . |
| 10 | The giant Widnes forward was told to retire just before last month 's Silk Cut Challenge Cup final because of a neck injury . |
| 11 | Delyn was going to spend £1.25m in 1993–94 , but finds it has more than £2.5m unspent capital which it can carry over from last year 's budget . |
| 12 | He came over to last year 's boat reunion at Pembroke Dock . ’ |
| 13 | She tried to remember more about last evening . |
| 14 | with a s as we were picking up from last week , a c a c in , in a sense that land reform is , is already taking place , there is this sort of groundswell from the masses that to move beyond the , the moderate policy and that is then formalized in the May the fourth directive which marks like the return to land reform going back to and then y y y y you 've got the implementation of that May the fourth directive and then out of a very difficult position in nineteen forty seven when they , they are under attack from the Kuomintang and i in the spring of nineteen forty seven is actually taken by Kuomintang . |
| 15 | The forward order book has moved up since last month , but lags its long-term average ( 3.0 months ' work ) . |
| 16 | She was exhausted , she was close to tears or laughter , she was probably getting drunk , topping up on last night 's alcohol . |
| 17 | It is believed the money allegedly went missing over a long period , dating back to last season 's Cup Final . |
| 18 | One author missed out of last week 's round-up was Tom Jaine , editor of the Good Food Guide , who was named Restaurant Writer of the Year . |
| 19 | She was cheated out of last night , and though she does not know it she is going to lose tomorrow night too . |
| 20 | last I got moved back in last night . |
| 21 | On the track and field scene , did n't the province do well in last weekend 's All-Ireland League finals in Tullamore with victory by the Lisburn women and third placings for the young Lagan Valley women and understrength Annadale men . |
| 22 | On the track and field scene , did n't the province do well in last weekend 's All-Ireland League finals in Tullamore with victory by the Lisburn women and third placings for the young Lagan Valley women and understrength Annadale men . |
| 23 | Van Basten scored twice in last season 's 6-1 aggregate semi-final victory over the Spaniards . |
| 24 | Gordon Watson , who scored twice in last week 's Coca Cola Cup seven-goal rout of Leicester and again in the reserves on Thursday , now looks certain to fill one of the strikers ' roles . |
| 25 | Leading on from last week we were looking at menu planning and I actually asked you to bring in some menus . |
| 26 | Talks have been going on since last night and the former Celtic and Manchester United star is set to travel north to sort out the details of his contract . |
| 27 | There are a number of problems caused by a protracted campaign — and arguably , this election has been going on since last autumn when everyone started wondering whether Major could pull it off . |
| 28 | It 's still , it 's been , in the first two months it 's been going down on last year in volume terms . |
| 29 | She and Mandy had finally got in from last night 's fiasco around four in the morning . |
| 30 | The 46-year-old Exeter manager was drafted in for last month 's win over France at Wembley as the England manager cast around for a successor to the disgraced Steve Harrison . |