Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] last [noun] " in BNC.

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1 With bad blood carried over from last year 's clash between the two sides which saw Eric Rush retire from the fray with a broken wrist , the portents were not good .
2 Ball missed the opening three matches of the season because of a suspension carried over from last season , and then served a two match ban last month for reaching 21 points .
3 On the economic front , the latest Dun and Bradstreet survey of UK business , carried out before last week 's increase in interest rates to 15 per cent , warned that the British economy was on the brink of a ‘ major slowdown ’ as high-interest policies produced a dramatic downturn in confidence .
4 The forward order book has moved up since last month , but lags its long-term average ( 3.0 months ' work ) .
5 One author missed out of last week 's round-up was Tom Jaine , editor of the Good Food Guide , who was named Restaurant Writer of the Year .
6 She was cheated out of last night , and though she does not know it she is going to lose tomorrow night too .
7 last I got moved back in last night .
8 She and Mandy had finally got in from last night 's fiasco around four in the morning .
9 The 46-year-old Exeter manager was drafted in for last month 's win over France at Wembley as the England manager cast around for a successor to the disgraced Steve Harrison .
10 Experts from 24 countries met in Trondheim , Norway , in May under the auspices of the UN Environment Programme ( UNEP ) to discuss implementation of the biodiversity treaty drawn up at last year 's Earth Summit in Rio .
11 That is bad news , and threatens a continuation of the debilitating battle between the government and the parliament that has dragged on since last November .
12 American children whose mothers were called up during last year 's Gulf War felt they had been abandoned , an in-depth study of their feelings showed .
13 British electronics manufacturers are the most acquisitive in Europe , a fact borne out by last month 's £230 million purchase by ICL of Finnish computer company Nokia Data .
14 Supply landing operation already laid on to last detail with Mid .
15 And the Beaubourg gallery has recent assemblages by the French sculptor César until 7 November : cut-out , compressed , superimposed statues of Communist leaders brought down by last summer 's events in Moscow and entitled ‘ Ave Lenin ’ .
16 He DID ask not to be selected for future B team games after being pulled off in last April 's second-string clash with the CIS .
17 This is what I had set out for last week . ’
18 ‘ It 's gone up since last time , ’ I replied .
19 Then there is Test no.8 Tim Gavin who is making slow progress after being ruled out of last year 's World Cup because of damaged knee ligaments .
20 You are faced with half a packet of dusty dried peas , the unopened naan bread mix that seemed such a good idea at the time and the smoked oysters left over from last year 's Christmas hamper .
21 We 've even got one of Mum 's home-baked Christmas puddings left over from last year — ’
22 They were left over from last night . ’
23 Robinson was forced off during last Saturday 's 3–0 home defeat by leaders Blackburn and Clarkson suffered his injury playing in the reserves in midweek .
24 Every so of ten the dog would break away and belt off to splash in the shallows or to investigate something smelly , thrown up by last night 's tide .
25 Finally accepting that if they do n't hang together in the face of the threat from Microsoft Corp Windows NT , their Unix efforts will hang separately , Hewlett-Packard Co , IBM Corp , Sun Microsystems Inc , Unix System Laboratories Inc , Univel Inc and Santa Cruz Operation Inc lined up at last week 's UniForum trade show in San Francisco to announce a common desktop strategy for Unix workstation vendors ( UX No 427 ) .
26 The way he was fired up for last season 's FA Cup semi-final against Portsmouth , despite knowing he was to have major heart surgery the next day showed his commitment .
27 In return the Americans this month unblocked $5m in military aid that had been held up after last year 's arrests .
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