Example sentences of "it [was/were] [verb] last [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So we 're watching that programme , Is this Your Last Cigarette ? or whatever it were called last Sunday on the telly and I thought I 'm stupid cos in six month 's time I shall say I could have packed up six months ago . |
| 2 | It were raining last night at what time did we go ? |
| 3 | NEARLY £5billion has been put up by 2.2million private investors chasing water shares , it was confirmed last night , making the sale one of the most popular privatisations . |
| 4 | KING Hussein of Jordan DID have cancer , it was confirmed last night . |
| 5 | AN in-depth report on the Government 's major skills training scheme that was delivered to the Department of Employment three weeks ago will remain unpublished , it was confirmed last night . |
| 6 | It was confirmed last night that the idea of privately-run detention centres was being pursued within the Home Office . |
| 7 | It was confirmed last night that Mr Lynch will work with Mr Bleasdale to plan the structure , budgets and contracts required for the ScotRail operating franchise — one of the first due to be set up under the privatisation plans . |
| 8 | The board has also been having ongoing talks with potential investors , but it was understood last night that the present worrying situation remained unchanged . |
| 9 | It was re-coated last week ! |
| 10 | David Lodge 's screenplay of his novel Nice Work , which was the subject of his article in the last edition of The Birmingham Magazine , has received two awards since it was televised last autumn . |
| 11 | Nonetheless , the ULFA has the support of a fair chunk of the population and , more important , is in cahoots with the Asom Gana Parishad , the regional Assamese party that ruled the state till it was sacked last year . |
| 12 | MORE parts of Darlington could soon benefit from pedestrian-only schemes , it was hinted last night . |
| 13 | When it was transferred last year with it went pilot line supremo on a three-year secondment . |
| 14 | China denounced the plan when it was announced last October , and threatened dire consequences if Mr Patten refused to back down . |
| 15 | The jobs of men were threatened when it was announced last year that the Ladas Drive facility would be replaced by a £250 , fire station at Carryduff . |
| 16 | It was announced last night that urgent talks are to be held with public health officials after a survey by the Institution of Environmental Health Officers showed 2,858 out of 5,622 restaurants , pubs , and other outlets investigated were using microwave ovens designed for home kitchens . |
| 17 | TOUGH guy Tony Scannell is quitting The Bill after eight years as hard-drinking Detective Sergeant Roach , it was announced last night . |
| 18 | Princess Diana has agreed to be patron to Centrepoint , the London-based charity caring for the homeless , it was announced last night . |
| 19 | A SUCCESSFUL after-care scheme run for elderly people at Middlesbrough General Hospital has been extended for a further year , it was announced last night . |
| 20 | However , more than 700 jobs have been saved in a management buy-out of the Lilley subsidiary , Dumfries-based building firm Robison & Davidson , it was announced last night . |
| 21 | MORE than 700 jobs have been saved in a management buyout of the Lilley subsidiary Dumfries-based building firm Robison and Davidson , it was announced last night . |
| 22 | Problems have arisen despite this year 's cash for the NHS appearing , when it was announced last November , to allow for real growth for the first time in years , even after taking into account inevitable pressures such as the rising number of elderly people . |
| 23 | SERC decided earlier last year to cut its budget for neutron sources by £5m and it was announced last November that the government would be renegotiating its contribution to the neutron source at the Institut Laue-Langevin ( ILL ) in Grenoble , France . |
| 24 | Although it was announced last November that the awards would be down to 1.5 per cent , that did not stop politicians and union leaders from condemning the Government 's action . |
| 25 | The company , which owns Spear & Jackson , the garden tools manufacturer , has been the subject of recurrent speculation for months , and it was fuelled last month when Neill announced a fall in pre-tax profits from £2.71m to just £28,000 in the first half . |
| 26 | PATRICK RYAN , the Catholic priest whose extradition was unsuccessfully sought by Britain last year , will not face prosecution in the Irish Republic , it was revealed last night . |
| 27 | SIR Andrew Lloyd Webber 's new musical Sunset Boulevard is to open in London next June , it was revealed last night . |
| 28 | Joanna worked at a casino in Australia with a nightclub singer who staged an identical disappearing act a year ago , it was revealed last night . |
| 29 | A SEX pest who stalked TV weathergirl Ulrika Jonsson died after throwing himself under an express train , it was revealed last night . |
| 30 | WORRIED John Major called in an election expert over fears for his majority , it was revealed last night . |