Example sentences of "[unc] [noun sg] [verb] last [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | His most recent succés du scandale came last spring at the Venice Biennale , the art world 's Cannes , where Koons showed a polychromed sculpture of him and Cicciolina as a soft-core Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden , surrounded by three laser-painted and varnished canvases of the couple making love . |
2 | My original programme included the week 's Workshop in Jaipur and two lectures in Delhi , but in fact I found myself with many more professional engagements than this , through the Indian habit of ‘ cashing in ’ on one 's presence to arrange last minute lectures and seminars , and the Indian tendency to solicit one 's opinion of personal research , of Ph.D . |
3 | Mary 's ex-husband said last night : ‘ I think he is a very foolish man . |
4 | But Mr Onanuga 's girlfriend said last night she still believed him . |
5 | Dennett 's agent said last night : ‘ Mike 's a busy man . |
6 | But , as the Institute 's Council found last month , when it considered a preliminary paper on the subject , openness could actually end up destroying the effectiveness of the disciplinary process altogether . |
7 | Irvine , California-based Advanced Logic Research Inc has cut prices across its entire line of desktop products in response to Compaq Computer Corp 's price cuts last week : the reductions are intended to position key models with a higher feature set at prices 10% to 20% less than Compaq 's comparable models . |
8 | Chisholm 's wife said last night he was ‘ working off steam ’ at his local gymnasium . |
9 | South Korea 's economy grew last year at a real rate of 9.2% . |
10 | Malta 's government decided last year to commemorate the 50th anniversary by issuing medals to all servicemen who served there . |
11 | Guy 's Hospital confirmed last night that the dead girl was Daniella Carter , who had been standing near the blast . |
12 | Sheppard was forced to pull out of the last of the British Grand Prix qualifying meets last month , thus losing her chance to defend the sprint freestyle title at the Superfinal in Cardiff in May , and she has still not returned to full training . |
13 | Shall I tell you what I saw in my old man 's garden shed last summer ? |
14 | Toby Balding 's star faces last year 's top novice Miinnehoma , Run For Free and Bonanza Boy — all trained by Martin Pipe — in the £25,000 race , won 12 months ago by Carvill 's Hill . |
15 | COLIN Jackson , a disappointment at the Barcelona Olympics , beat American silver medallist Tony Dees in the men 's high hurdles at the Zurich Grand Prix athletics meeting last night . |
16 | Imagine that we could directly observe a particular person 's or group 's expectation formed last period of the current period 's value of an economic variable . |
17 | The International Telecommunication Union is holding its first World Telecommunications Standardisation Conference in Helsinki March 1 to 12 : the conference succeeds what was formerly called the CCITT Plenary Assembly , and follows the ITU 's restructuring announced last year . |
18 | A spokesman for the Lord Chancellor 's Office said last night : ‘ The allegation we have received is that one of the magistrates nodded off and we will be investigating . ’ |
19 | The Transport and General Workers ' Union complained last night after a driver employed at RAF Stafford died from a heart attack . |