Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [verb] last [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this context , Bryan Gould 's decision to challenge John Smith for the Labour leadership , as our political correspondent wrote last week , is welcome — not because he will win , but because it forces a debate to take place . |
| 2 | It was when he was persuaded out of retirement to try classic bike racing last season that the accident happened . |
| 3 | A DISSIDENT woman poet , jailed for opposing the government had been unconditionally released early from prison , Cuba 's Foreign Ministry said last night . |
| 4 | FAMILIES are in line for a Christmas cash boost from the taxman , the Inland Revenue said last night . |
| 5 | The IWC 's scientific committee agreed last year that the stock of minke whales in the north-east Atlantic amounted to 86,700 and was no longer in danger of depletion . |
| 6 | THE family of a man shot by police at the end of a 47-hour siege claimed last night it need not have finished in bloodshed . |
| 7 | There was no presentation this year for the Daily Newspaper of the Year a title which the Daily Post won last year . |
| 8 | An appeal court said fresh evidence presented last month could have had a bearing on the jury 's original verdict . |
| 9 | I took the trouble to look at what the hon. Gentleman said last time , when Swan 's was successful . |
| 10 | Social workers and doctors who wrongly diagnose sex abuse cases can not be sued for their mistakes , the High Court ruled last week . |
| 11 | A BRITISH passenger told last night of the moment he was separated from his wife by a wall of flames as their holiday jet crash-landed . |
| 12 | SOCCER player John Groves fears a broken leg suffered last year may finally have ended his playing days . |
| 13 | A FRESH row brewed last night over the contentious Channel Tunnel rail link through the south-east of England after the Labour Party claimed it had obtained full details of the route . |
| 14 | A good deal of the upbeat feel reported last month gave way to dismay and much questioning , which reached a crescendo over the selection of the second Test 12 with its five changes . |
| 15 | One embarrassed spokesman said last night : ‘ If he 's said that , then there 's not much more we can contribute to it . ’ |
| 16 | O'Connor had had sentence deferred for psychiatric and social background reports last month . |
| 17 | A British official said last night : ‘ If we find an Iraqi aircraft in the air there , we will shoot it down . ’ |
| 18 | A BRITISH couple told last night how they jumped for their lives when their holiday jet crash-landed in a torrential storm . |
| 19 | Derek Smith , the British businessman imprisoned last month after he tried to sell five and half pounds of uranium to Greece 's Nuclear Research Centre , was yesterday set free on bail , writes Helena Smith from Athens . |
| 20 | The Foreign Office said last night that most of the people in the camps were fishermen and farmers from the north seeking a better life . |
| 21 | FOREIGN Office said last night it was sending a Royal Navy frigate and supply ship to help in Bahamas . |
| 22 | The programme , part of the larger economic plan announced last week , will redirect government technology research and development from focus on the defence sector . |
| 23 | AN eight-year-old boy died last night after an accident involving a bus on the outskirts of Cupar in Fife . |
| 24 | A TOTALLY pointless crime happened last week in Milton Keynes when office thieves made off with a computer — that speaks only Japanese ! |
| 25 | Keen investors pumped more than £2,260 million into Personal Equity Plans last year — taking the total invested since the scheme was lauched in January 1987 to more than £6 billion . |
| 26 | The findings of a comprehensive review begun last year into ‘ externalising ’ £12 million-worth of services are said to represent the most radical purchaser/provided shake-up yet . |
| 27 | The dynamic duo 's real coup came last summer , when they managed to snatch two Brazilian internationalists for the comparative bargain price of £2.85 million . |
| 28 | But after a separate decree issued last month , allowing the president to postpone the election in the event of disorder , these measures have added to the doubts of those who say the transition will not happen . |
| 29 | The first tranche at £8,000 per ordinary share closed last month . |
| 30 | A second ominous event came last week , when Mr Babangida issued a treason decree , imposing the death sentence for anybody attempting to ‘ disrupt the fabric of the nation ’ . |