Example sentences of "[pers pn] the [noun] [prep] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and erm , she phoned me the night before last for the results come through |
| 2 | said she phoned me the night before last and she said she 's been looking at flats I thought I 'd just ring you to tell you we 've been looking at flats and they range from two hundred and fifty to four hundred and eighty pounds a week for a flat |
| 3 | They give me the newspaper from next door when they 've finished with it . |
| 4 | ‘ I tried to talk to you the night before last , but — ’ |
| 5 | I spoke to him the night before last , and he 's doing fine . |
| 6 | Hoping against hope that she was giving him the come-on at last , he readily accepted . |
| 7 | So anyway , I said to her the week before last when he went up on the Sunday , I said go up there and say to her |
| 8 | Cos we went to Winterlarken the year before last , was it the year before last ? |
| 9 | The months passed and there came a week when the purple flowers of the heather took over the moorland slopes and brought with it the sense at last of autumn , a time he loved . |
| 10 | I said it the issue before last while reviewing Iron Man on compilation , and I 'll say it again — it 's difficult to see how the game could be any better ! |
| 11 | Portsmouth and Liverpool drew 1–1 at Highbury , and the replay in Birmingham had to be put back when police said they could not cope with it the day before last week 's General Election . |
| 12 | The nature or our existence hides from us the knowledge of first beginnings which are born of the Nothing ; and the littleness of our being conceals from us the sight of the Infinite . |
| 13 | May I ask the Leader of the House to tell us the business for next week ? |