Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] [vb past] last [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the little white house in the almond and lemon country of South-Eastern Spain where I stayed last summer every midday meal started with the tomato and onion salad . |
| 2 | I encountered the reality of a penitential pilgrimage the moment I woke and levered my stiff limbs off the hard school-room floor where we slept last night , and winced as my blister contacted the floor . |
| 3 | Like the one at that farm where we stayed last summer . ’ |
| 4 | The brakes had gone at the same corner where he rolled last year . |
| 5 | Lucente quit IBM for the number two post at Northern Telecom Ltd , where he resigned last month . |
| 6 | ‘ In fact , I would say I now have a far stronger squad than I had last year and it is n't costing as much . ’ |
| 7 | So how is it that I , a pensioner earning half that sum , will pay more tax should he win the election than I did last year ? |
| 8 | Better tonight than I did last night . |
| 9 | This created a conundrum for the label , resolved with the following decision : ‘ You can suffer from Number One-itis , ’ reckons Andy , ‘ which is always trying to get to Number One or go one better than you managed last time . |
| 10 | Because er , to produce more output you have to have a bigger stock , and therefore the price goes up , so you produce more , decreasing not quite so much , and keep a greater percentage than you did last year , so that for cows , as the price goes up you 've got to counteract it again , cows this year , and try to sort of , keep my , get my herd bigger and bigger , and profitable . |
| 11 | Erm , although I think we will say that that would be dangerous thing to do and that we should continue to work upon the er the assumption that there erm er overall as a n , a nine percent increase , but , that seems highly unlikely that will succeed , erm What I 've then done is take account of the various staffing changes that there have been during the year , both short term and long term , erm , and you 'll see that produces a figure actually available to us this year of twenty seven thousand five hundred and eighty eight investigative hours , erm which is slightly less than we had last year , er but erm almost not significantly so , erm and it seemed to me therefore that if we were n't trying to reduce times , er , if we were saying that we would turn in times at the end of this year which were the same as the term times we turned in at the end of last year we could probably achieve that without any further recruitment . |
| 12 | I think they have more pedigree than the other team in that they were in the first division four years ago , erm so I think we can expect a harder game than we had last time . |
| 13 | SUPERMARKET giant Tesco yesterday claimed that the slump is forcing us to spend £3 a week less on food than we did last year . |
| 14 | In Christian Aid Week 1985 we raised £2500 more than we did last year . |
| 15 | This year we thought it right to reserve our judgment er , until the end of the year so we matched last year 's interim . |
| 16 | ‘ BORVEL NEM AKT ; the words meant no more now than they had last night , and the feather looked simply ordinary . |
| 17 | They look a lot better than they did last year ! |
| 18 | Do you believe that women feel more empowered or less empowered now than they did last year ? |
| 19 | And , having been presented with the customary bottle of champagne by the Wincanton executive , Scudamore added that he felt a lot less pressure than he had last season . |
| 20 | Is n't that window-cleaner coming more often than he did last year ? |
| 21 | The Fellow seemed to run his race , as he beat Docklands Express further than he did last year . ’ |
| 22 | Like I said last week , I would go for Andy Hinchcliffe down the left instead of Peter Beagrie . |
| 23 | cos I went last night . |
| 24 | Cos she asked last night , I was supposed to be taking Jenny and then when Fay came she asked me if I 'd take Fay as well today so it looks as though Charlotte 's mum did everybody took everybody home . |
| 25 | And when she goes missing like she did last Saturday he 's usually not around either . |
| 26 | Well like you said last time , I think only a man can put up with her . |
| 27 | The most surprising thing is if somebody turns round and asks you , like they did last year , ‘ Why is the sky blue ? ’ and a thing a lot of people do n't even think of , you end up being able to explain — I think that 's the appeal of it . |
| 28 | The 80860 also formed the basis of Oki Electric 's server line until it folded last month . |
| 29 | Until it slipped last year , British manufacturers ' share of the volume of world exports had been broadly stable at 7% since 1981 , after falling continuously since the 1950s . |
| 30 | He is popular in Japan , more like a movie star than a politician ( partly because his brother , Yujiro , was a real film star until he died last year ) . |