Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [adv prt] last [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Did I tell you Steve 's car conked out last week , again ? |
| 2 | Mm yes , erm since the home office secretary 's initiative it 's progressing quite well , with interest from certainly Bassett , Newark Stanton on the Wolds Tollerton and some other of the rural Coldfield areas were interested in going forward , Bassett looked very very interested , we went to a meeting last night , eighteen parish councils were represented , er Beckingham is going to be the first one , they 've got a special that lives there who 's gon na take up the work , Superintendent came down last night to do a circular of em a questionnaire around the village and parish to get find out what people want , and then go and see what the specials able to provide and meet the two together and get some sort of contractive agreement , he 'll work from the police house there , he 'll have access to the car , when it 's not being used by the rural officer , also his radio . |
| 3 | STEVEN SMITH 'S perseverance with the brilliant but wayward Brook Street Picnic paid off last night at the Horse of the Year Show , when he won the £4,000 first prize for the Leading Show Jumper of the Year title . |
| 4 | Woodhill Echo went on last year to win a £1,000 open at Brough Park before finishing third in the Scottish Derby . |
| 5 | A review carried out last year showed that there was in increase in the number of inshore fishing vessels seeking assistance , and modern navigational equipment and greater speed may be tempting this type of vessel further offshore than is sometimes prudent . |
| 6 | Ross and Cromarty district councillor Rob Gibson , the party 's policy vice convener , said : ‘ The peaceful demonstration carried out last week was the hallmark of the party 's campaign of peaceful civil disobedience if necessary . |
| 7 | The programme is based on a study carried out last year , which showed that 57 per cent of eastern residents drank below-standard water , and that 36 per cent breathed air which contained levels of sulphur dioxide above safety levels . |
| 8 | THE British Snoring and Sleep Apnoea Association set up last year by a Mr Alan Davy has declared a membership of 1,300 . |
| 9 | The percentage went up last year , but the amount of the levy is still set to fall over the 1990s . |
| 10 | NEW fitness club Bodifit kicked off last week with an official opening by the Glentoran football squad . |
| 11 | Labour MPs howled for a retrospective rebate in Scotland , where the poll tax came in last year . |
| 12 | The curtain went up last night on The Little Shop of Horrors . |
| 13 | EUROPE 'S top trade negotiator stepped down last night , as the Americans raised the stakes in a bitter wrangle over imports . |
| 14 | A PENSIONER hit out last night at a thief who burgled her house and then stole her handbag while pretending to be a Good Samaritan . |
| 15 | And there could be a protest vote , there will be a protest vote , as the greens knew last time , and we to our sadness found out last time . |
| 16 | Well this woman came round last night and asked if I 'd take part . |
| 17 | No , this woman came round last night |
| 18 | Several house windows were smashed and two cars damaged when the trouble broke out last night in Queens Retreat in Cheltenham . |
| 19 | Butcher , whose career looked over last season because of a knee injury , will be offered a one-year contract this week after starring for the First Division club in three pre-season friendlies . |
| 20 | The company 's Asynchronous Transfer Mode strategy kicked off last month with the addition of an external Asynchronous Transfer Mode interface to its DXE product system using a cellifier from Digital Link , the DL3200/A . |
| 21 | Nick Polkinhorne ( using less sophisticated software than Mr Ferris : an overhead projector ) offered a demonstration of how to use TeleOrdering ; Kevin Allard did the same with First Edition , the EDI service for the book trade set up last year by Book Data and Vista . |
| 22 | But when a man came in last night and threatened her with a knife , shop assistant Parveen Akhter decided enough was enough . |
| 23 | A furious row broke out last night over who should film the happy couple outside tiny Crathie church . |
| 24 | A ROW broke out last night over claims about waiting lists in Darlington as the local health authority launched its patient 's charter . |
| 25 | The row broke out last week after Mr McNeill 's reported comments that malnutrition or genetic factors could be responsible for a high level of black and Asian children in special schools . |
| 26 | The row broke out last week after Mr McNeill 's reported comments that malnutrition or genetic factors could be responsible for a high level of black and Asian children in special schools . |
| 27 | A MAJOR row blew up last night after the Queen 's Christmas Day speech was apparently leaked to a newspaper . |
| 28 | We got a grant from the Foundation for Sport and the Arts , which the government set up last year . |
| 29 | I have to advise the information to the economic development panel which indicates from our survey that the report carried out last year by Consultants that the airfield , the runway in Hatfield makes only a very minor contribution to the economy of Hertfordshire . |
| 30 | This translates into a gain of just 1% pre-tax because heavy capital expenditure swallowed up last time 's £18m interest income . |