Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [prep] last [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Darman felt burnt by last year 's clean-air act . |
| 2 | One of the leading dissidents reflected the wider view , when Winston Churchill thanked Mr Heseltine for the ‘ considerable distance ’ he had travelled since last year . |
| 3 | Many had to borrow money , a need that had grown since last year 's replacement of social security single grants for urgent needs or repairs by social fund loans . |
| 4 | A chance , too , perhaps , to sort out the business deal they had talked about last week . |
| 5 | Leith was having difficulty in equating this caring-sounding Naylor with the aggressive brute she had tangled with last night when Travis revealed , ‘ But it was my mother who rang him on Friday and , it seems , confessed — something I 'd been too preoccupied to have noticed — that she 'd been worried about me for some while . |
| 6 | Half the fleet had arrived by last night , including the joint services yacht Satquote British Defender , which was beaten for eighth place by only 37 minutes by the first of the three Finnish challengers , Martela OF . |
| 7 | But the 14-year-old , who had lost in last year 's finals , did n't really need it . |