Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] in the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was in the last category , I reckoned , which did n't stop me wishing I 'd been born into the first . |
| 2 | Second , how successful you were in the last job so that she ? he can gauge what calibre of person you are . |
| 3 | Few people are offended today , as they were in the last century , by the thought of man and the chimpanzee being classified together by virtue of a common ancestor which has been extinct for probably more than three million years ! |
| 4 | Women are not debarred from any legal statuses which are held by men , as they were in the last century . |
| 5 | Can the Prime Minister really take any comfort from the fact that , bad as today 's figures are , they are slightly less bad than they were in the last Tory slump ? |
| 6 | and within the last say twenty five years there 's been a dramatic change in the young people 's way of thinking , maybe more of them have gone to university than they did the previous twenty five years and that there is such a difference now than there was that I mean for instance if there was a war there would n't , there would be far more conscientious objectors than there ever was before far more than erm young man saying no I 'm going to fight for my country , be patriotic I do n't think you would find , for instance , the youth of this country so patriotic as they was in the last war , your country needs you . |
| 7 | Now that idea was to get everybody together and erm because there have been certain members of the staff which have n't been looked at for a period of time they 've escaped the net as it were in the last couple of times and it seems that we 've had the same guys for the last three years and some have erm |
| 8 | Academic analysts are unanimous that the British press is highly partisan , even if it is less so than it was in the last century and even though proprietors are strongly profit-motivated . |
| 9 | Yet the output is little over half what it was in the last five years before 1939 . |
| 10 | It was in the last year of the old century , 1899 , that Grahame began his love affair with Fowey and its river . |
| 11 | In registered motion paths , you click for each node , and so can accurately define where the actor will be in each frame relative to where it was in the last frame . |
| 12 | It was in the last Staff Association agreement . |
| 13 | From up here he had a panoramic view over a large part of the course and as he was in the last row could see behind as well as forward . |