Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [vb pp] [prep] last " in BNC.
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1 | The four died in July 1967 when their helicopter crashed during an approach to a landing zone in South Vietnam but their bodies were not returned until last July . |
2 | Delegates agreed by 3,243,000 votes to 2,859,000 to throw out the NUM 's proposed deadline , which was overwhelmingly supported by last month 's TUC , against the wishes of the trade union leadership . |
3 | Thorne 's ‘ Sports Page ’ , which was highly commended at last year 's Woodworker Show , uses more line than grain for the cartoon effect . |
4 | She prayed steadily , all those seventeen years , for guidance , for confirmation that she was still fulfilling divine purpose , and was only interrupted at last by her mother 's voice , demanding in a querulous letter that Isobel should come home and nurse her while she died — as she had been told she soon would — of cancer . |
5 | The alarm was not raised until last Friday when one arrived home with the wrong surname on an identity bracelet . |
6 | The committee 's existence was not disclosed until last week . |
7 | This First Division match , always one of the most emotional , fiercely fought contests of the season , was originally scheduled for last Saturday . |
8 | Asked why it had taken him 26 years to return , he said : ‘ I was n't invited till last year — though if I had been before perestroika , I would have thought not twice but 10 times about it , and I 'm not sure I would have come . ’ |
9 | It was n't counted in last week 's at all . |
10 | The Model 103/4 was officially launched at last autumn 's Penta show at Heathrow . |