Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] the [noun] last " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Westinghouse Signal company , based in Chippenham , Wiltshire , refused to comment on the contract last night , saying : ‘ This issue is sensitive . ’ |
| 2 | I remember when he always used to read out during the service before the sermon the previous week 's collection and it used to consist of the collection last Sunday consisted of one pensioning note , twenty ha'penny half crown pieces , forty florins and he 'd go all through the coinage down to the last ha'penny but erm oh I believe he was , he was er very aristocratic , very aristocratic , but er Father , cos he used to come over our house quite a lot when my mother was on the parochial church council , and er he had a curate that was quite leftish and he got himself on the old Board of Guardians and of course he used to sort of er go into the Labour Club and was quite of er father , he said to old Father one night he said erm he 's a funny chap your curate he said well he , he 's the son of a farm labourer he says and I 'm the son of a country squire and that 's the difference . |
| 3 | IN ANOTHER spectacular climbdown by East Germany , more than 6,000 East Germans , who had filled the West German embassy in Prague beyond bursting point , were allowed to leave for the West last night . |
| 4 | Although Alex Salmond was chided by party activists during the march , the turnout of around 5,000 buoyed up party managers who had been fearful of low attendance after the MPs ' decision to vote with the Government last Monday night in the Commons in exchange for party representation on the Committee of the Regions . |
| 5 | HONG KONG — Xu Jiatun , China 's senior official in Hong Kong , was summoned to Peking for talks on the dispute between China and Hong Kong over the Chinese swimmer Yang Yang , who was allowed by Hong Kong to go to the US last week , writes Kevin Hamlin . |
| 6 | My mother would n't allow me to go to the meeting last night — you know she despises anything Irish . " |
| 7 | I meant to go to the bank last , I meant to get cash for that guy but I 'll make him a cheque . |
| 8 | Srnicek , in for injured Tommy Wright , asked to go on the list last season because his family were desperately unhappy in England . |
| 9 | Industry leaders say two salmon farms had to call in the receivers last week and others will have to follow suit unless the European Union takes action . |
| 10 | Industry leaders say two salmon farms had to call in the receivers last week and others will have to follow suit unless the European Union takes action . |
| 11 | The sergeant continued : ‘ But then Mr Hamilton found the valuable guns missing from Taigh na Tuir , and he reported that , with the story of your attempt to get into the house last Wednesday night . |
| 12 | If so , what are they to make of the case last week of Maria Jones , a 22-year-old woman who was 31 weeks pregnant ? |
| 13 | The dispute was triggered by Hong Kong 's decision to allow the top Chinese swimmer , Yang Yang , who had sought political asylum in the West , to travel to the US last week . |