Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [verb] [prep] last " in BNC.
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| 1 | So what I want to do is to go back over what I was talking about last week but with a different emphasis . |
| 2 | " To buy the policeman I was fighting with last night a drink . " |
| 3 | ‘ Well , well , well , Captain , ’ said Mayor Mutton when the laughter ceased , ‘ So you are apprehended at last … caught in the very act of importing illicit French liquor into His Majesty 's Realm , a heinous crime for which there is but one penalty . ’ |
| 4 | You 're talking about last year are n't you ? |
| 5 | ‘ They were on the arm of the chair you were sitting in last night . |
| 6 | Is it because she 's thought of last year 's holidays ? |
| 7 | So she waited for the summons to the prince 's presence , and went with a demure step and a high heart when she was called at last . |
| 8 | I , I , I mean I do n't know , I was n't there for half the things she was talking about last night , I mean I was upstairs for three quarters of an hour trying to go to sleep |
| 9 | Tt er if , if , if you go back to some of the things we were looking at last term er er this idea of commercialization tt er argue that the south was a very different type of country to the north , that it is commercialized at least to a much greater extent |
| 10 | It 's one of the things we were demonstrating for last week . ’ |
| 11 | One of the things we were talking about last time was separating mixtures and solvents . |
| 12 | erm and surely this , this is the implication that we were talking about last week , that erm if , if you are going to promote industrialization which is now the aim somebody 's got ta produce a surplus for investment for that . |
| 13 | Now in fact what that means for me is that actually we 're all programmers — we always have been — but we have n't been used to explaining it in quite the way that computers need us to explain it , and of course that goes back to this question of understanding English that we were talking about last time . |
| 14 | Er , Dennis , who we were talking to last night , he says , you must be absolutely mental ! |
| 15 | THEY are fixed at last ! |
| 16 | She was heartily glad when they were installed at last in front of the fire , trays on knees . |
| 17 | Will he be caught at last , and put to death ? |
| 18 | Oh Ernest , Charlotte , it 's happening at last ! ’ |
| 19 | It 's happening at last . |
| 20 | This conflict of interests would not be so bad if teaching was seen to have an equal claim with the others on doctors ' time , but too often it is pushed into last position in the list of priorities . |
| 21 | Elsewhere in the capital , the Royal Lyceum claims it is recovering after last year 's £1.2 million debt crisis and ticket sales which were 10 to 15 per cent below target . |
| 22 | Although platinum is now the most costly of the precious metals , it is dealt with last because it has not yet attracted the affection or exerted the influence of either gold or silver . |
| 23 | It was upheld at last year 's meeting in Noordwijk [ see ED no. 37/38 ] . |
| 24 | it was taken about last July |
| 25 | Graeme Wright , editor of Wisden since 1986 , announced he was quitting at last night 's launch of the 1992 edition , held at the East India Club , London . |
| 26 | He was banished from last summer 's Olympics after a drugs test showed traces of the banned steroid Methandianone . |
| 27 | Then probably you have not heard that he was sent for last night just before Compline , to go to Donata , at her express wish . |
| 28 | He made 165 centuries in 11 months , and reached the final of the British junior championship in which he lost to Barry Pinches , a teenager from Norwich whom he was to defeat in last year 's world amateur final . |
| 29 | I reckon he was trapped at last , like a good many others . ’ |