Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] [vb past] [prep] last " in BNC.
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| 1 | He continued to urge Canterbury 's supremacy over York , and in the general settlement of 1107 , Archbishop Gerard promised at last to show him the same obedience as archbishop as he had owed as bishop of Hereford . |
| 2 | Mr Simon Heffer argued in last week 's Spectator that welfarism is once more coming to characterise the British , having been repulsed during the Thatcher years : ‘ The plaintive , dependent-relative voice of the something-for-nothing society , heard on almost every street in this campaign , was a little harder to find five years ago . ’ |
| 3 | A GOVERNMENT minister yesterday promised emergency cash aid to bail out areas of North Wales devastated by last week 's ‘ storm of the century . ’ |
| 4 | He said Mr Lamont declared in last year 's Budget he had ‘ no need , no proposals and no plans either to raise or to extend the scope of VAT ’ . |
| 5 | The Phantom and Teardrop which Eddie Allen looked at last month were made by Paul Chandler in the USA . |
| 6 | ‘ Let him be , ’ Uncle Nick said at last . |
| 7 | According to French sources , the problems with the Longines Classic started at last year 's event when , though the sponsors paid out the prize money , it did not reach the players . |
| 8 | ‘ You must be crazy , ’ Pietro Miletti said at last . |
| 9 | It was not until the following Pentecost , in early summer , that Rosalba heard Tommaso Talvi had at last come back . |
| 10 | It had been a melancholic day , although Winston Churchill had at last been called into the War Cabinet , gracing its inaugural meeting as First Lord of the Admiralty . |
| 11 | When Delia Sutherland did at last ring it was three weeks after their meeting and he was proved right . |
| 12 | DUP councillor Sammy Wilson said at last week 's monthly meeting of the council it was unnecessary for the Lord Mayor to attend the Hong Kong trip as Belfast would be well represented by Laganisde board members , amongst others . |
| 13 | One of the so-called rebel councillors , Peter Sullivan confirmed after last night 's full meeting of Monklands District Council that Mr Murphy had been suspended on full pay pending a disciplinary committee meeting . |
| 14 | George Aspinall said at last , wiping his mouth . |
| 15 | Ruby Wax , above , and Margaret Thatcher tied for last place |