Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [adv] [prep] last " in BNC.
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| 1 | Said , oh you were n't in last year when I came were you ? |
| 2 | If you were here for last Sunday morning 's sermon , John answered that question when he started the series on Elisha . |
| 3 | She was now at last returning home . |
| 4 | She 'd tell him that when they were together at last . |
| 5 | They were there at last , Lucy was bundled as gently as speed would allow on to a trolley and whisked off through swing doors , and Virginia stared , hollow-eyed , at Guy as they waited around silently in the reception area . |
| 6 | It was over at last . |
| 7 | Yeah , tell your Mum to give me the twelve pence , er , er the two P cos erm it was n't , it was n't worth last night . |
| 8 | However , it was n't until last year 's event in Nottingham that she started to perform manoeuvres like throwing her paddle away and hand surfing in competition . |
| 9 | It was n't until last autumn that the producers were able to say ‘ Forget Moscow ; deal directly with us . ’ |
| 10 | Mr Ferguson has been a fan of Schmeichel for four years , but it was not until last summer that he could persuade Denmark 's top club , Brondby , to accept an offer . |
| 11 | Coupled with problems that arose with the apparatus — UA1 for example was beset by difficulties ranging from dirty air-lines to burst pipes — it was not until last November and December that the experiments were able to observe a large sample of proton-antiproton collisions . |
| 12 | It was not until last year that I achieved my ambition to sail there . |
| 13 | Although he had had a smoker 's cough for years , it was not until last April that inoperable lung cancer was diagnosed . |
| 14 | It was just like last night again , when the mood had changed between them and she had left to go to bed , filled with regrets . |
| 15 | So , it was out at last , and it was not what she 'd expected . |
| 16 | Ah , this was what he was on about last night . |
| 17 | He was only round last week to collect the month 's rent . |