Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [verb] last [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You seemed a bit distracted last night . |
| 2 | Probably me cos er I think I was a bit provoking last night , what I was wearing . |
| 3 | A driver died last week and two football fans returning from a Newcastle United game , were all killed on the A66 east of Bowes , in separate incidents . |
| 4 | ‘ She had a tooth extracted last week , ’ said Staff , ‘ and that 's how the bug got in . |
| 5 | He is referring to a study published last year in the British Medical Journal in which the complementary therapy of chiropractic was compared with conventional physiotherapy in the treatment of low back pain . |
| 6 | A study published last year by the Rand Corporation , a think-tank in California , found that 88% of the money spent by insurers went on legal fees and other paperwork costs . |
| 7 | By May 20th all three were back at Harvard , to flesh out Mr Yavlinsky 's plan ( which , according to Mr Allison , is based on a study conducted last December by the IMF and the World Bank ) . |
| 8 | In what looks like a remarkable commentary on the nature of its agreement with IBM Corp for the RS/6000 , Wang Laboratories Inc is to market Hewlett Packard Co 's Unix machines under a deal announced last week . |
| 9 | But a spokesman for Mr Major said the Government was satisfied that a deal negotiated last July between the US and the EC acting for Britain , Germany , Spain and France — the four partners in the Airbus project — was not an unfair subsidy . |
| 10 | BIG guns pounding embattled Bosnians could fall silent under UN control within 11 days , under a deal agreed last night . |
| 11 | POLICE pay is going up by 6.5 per cent — well above the inflation rate — under a deal confirmed last night by Home Secretary Kenneth Clarke . |
| 12 | A deal collapsed last week over personal terms . |
| 13 | The society also decided , at a council meeting last week , to compile , over the next three months , a dossier of cases of alleged misuse by government departments and ministers , to establish whether there is evidence to back up anecdotal claims that the integrity of government statistics is being undermined . |
| 14 | MORE THAN $550 million in funding is being provided to give an immediate boost to US high-tech industries under a plan outlined last night by President Bill Clinton . |
| 15 | A PARASCENDER drowned last night after being blown into the sea during a flight from cliffs . |
| 16 | Joseph Colucci , and executive director of research at General Motors , says that a consortium founded last summer in low-emissions technology offers the best match between the administration 's goals , the capabilities of the federal laboratories and the industry 's priorities . |
| 17 | The Federal Aviation Administration is reviewing a proposal submitted last week by IBM Corp to save its endangered contract for en route air traffic control workstations . |
| 18 | HALLUCINOGENIC mushrooms can be legally grown in Britain , a judge ruled last week in a test case . |
| 19 | Now he must face the FA again , accused of verbally abusing a linesman following last week 's defeat by Arsenal . |
| 20 | You had a job to open last night did n't you Ralph ? |
| 21 | A ‘ club of national research councils , researchers and institutes ’ to serve European research interests being neglected by the European Communities ( EC ) has been recommended by participants at a meeting organized last month by France 's basic research agency , the CNRS ( Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ) . |
| 22 | Chicago-based advertising screens on shopping trolleys specialist VideOcart Inc has persuaded IBM Corp to let it restructure its $42m debt to IBM , to provide the company with relief from near term debt payments and enable it to attain its business goals : a $22m debt would replace the existing debt , giving VideOcart a one-time balance sheet gain of $20m ; terms of the new agreement include waiving all principal and interest payments until July 31 , and VideOcart retains its rights under a previous agreement with IBM that allows early repayment of the new $22m debt at any time for $17m in cash ; VideOcart also agreed to cancel a warrant granted last year to IBM to buy 540,000 VideOcart shares and grants a new warrant to buy 600,000 shares at $1.75 each ; from August 31 to December 31 , interest only payments will be due , but payments of $500,000 a month will be due beginning on January 31 1994 and will continue for 35 months , and a balloon payment will be due on December 31 1996 , although IBM has the option to convert the balance of the debt into VideOcart common shares at $8 a share on that date . |
| 23 | At a conference held last year to launch the manual , speakers from the platform and from the floor voiced their disappointment . |
| 24 | They are the result of a conference held last year for young women in secure accommodation . |
| 25 | A WIFE died last night when she was crushed under a car with her husband at the wheel . |
| 26 | For tomorrow 's Division I game , Hawick will be without the injured Nick Bannerman , Scott Welsh , Greig Oliver , Jim Hay and Brian Renwick , while Tim Stokes , David Taylor and Derek Turnbull are rated as very doubtful , especially the Scotland flanker , who had four stitches inserted in a head cut last Saturday . |
| 27 | A friend said last night : ‘ It will cost a fortune to get this car back to its former glory . |
| 28 | Officials said yesterday that Robert Lock , 29 , from Cambridge , had been on remand after a court hearing last week when police detected the heroin , believed to be for his own use . |
| 29 | Ms Garcia , 23 , applied to Seacat for one of the 55 jobs being created with the introduction of its second ferry , following on the success of a service started last summer . |
| 30 | As was suggested in a paper published last year by the 1988 Forum ( as it then was ) Mr Heseltine was sure that the Church was part of the fabric of national life ; Mr Hurd appeared to have established agreeable diplomatic relations with the Almighty ; and ‘ John Major seemed the least ‘ churchy ’ yet perhaps the most thoughtful and original ’ in discussing faith and politics . |