Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] [verb] [prep] last " in BNC.
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| 1 | The step which for decades successive tsars had contemplated but abandoned in the face of noble opposition was taken at last . |
| 2 | Swindon must have thought their lucky break was coming at last when they won a penalty against Aston Villa at the County Ground … and took the lead thanks to Paul Bodin … |
| 3 | Late May , the sun was returning at last , but it was still cold . |
| 4 | The 11-year-old hound was spotted at last , less than four miles from home , and although frightened and hungry , was picked up safe and well . |
| 5 | DROPPING your aitches is something of a crime if My Fair Lady is anything to go by , and the game that her fair ladyship the Queen was playing in last week 's Echo Memories had indeed committed that crime . |
| 6 | Osorio was finished at last , and on 16 October , a few days before his twenty-fifth birthday , he sent a copy of the play , ‘ complete & neatly transcribed ’ , to William Lisle Bowles in Wiltshire . |
| 7 | The announcement of the stockpile was predicted in last week 's New Scientist ( 10 February , p 357 ) . |
| 8 | Now the declaration of her age on the death certificate was out of her control , the truth was listed at last . |
| 9 | But if their record was added to last season 's run-in , which yielded five wins from the last six , then their 12 victories amount to the number Neston secured to win in 1992 . |
| 10 | The idea of UN policing of the Bosnian-Serbian border was agreed to last December . |
| 11 | Sigourney was coming on last and we were going to move the seats around during the interval because we felt that she might not be able to concentrate sitting next to the heavily made-up and highly camp Julian . |
| 12 | Ruddock 's transfer request was slapped in last Friday and Sugar is ready to sell him even though the £2 million-rated player was a huge success in his first season back at Spurs . |
| 13 | It has also made more conservative estimates of reserves in some of its fields , though the impact was reduced by last week 's Budget announcement that petroleum revenue tax was being cut from 75 to 50 per cent . |
| 14 | A tiny circle of bright brass was found at last in the fishing tackle cupboard , slipped over Victoria 's finger and proudly displayed to the rest of the party . |
| 15 | The cannabis was working at last . |
| 16 | The prize list was based on last year 's results and optimism and the café stock on last year 's shopping list and guesswork . |
| 17 | Some locations present special problems for the haulier , and Belfast is one of them , so this delivery was left until last . |
| 18 | A bus parked overnight at Templemore School was broken into last Thursday and two fire extinguishers were taken . |
| 19 | The friendly competition between Petersfield , Liss , Haslemere and Liphook Chambers of Trade is run annually , and this year was organised by last year 's winners Petersfield . |
| 20 | A second date was set for last Monday , when Mr Connelly was again told of the cancellation only at the last minute . |
| 21 | The Romanian factory which produces replicas of the Lotto strip was broken into last week — with nearly 500 Blues shirts stolen . |
| 22 | A 5 p.c. reduction in gross margins on lower-margin desk-top computer products and the weakness in the market were blamed for last year 's downturn but ICL says its share of the British computer market rose by one point to 19 p.c . |
| 23 | He said that Madge 's house was broken into last night . |
| 24 | ( Decor was covered in last month 's PFK ) |
| 25 | Horse racing 's decline was deepened by last year 's collapse in bloodstock values . |