Example sentences of "been [vb pp] [prep] [noun] last " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even after the outline of a farm agreement had been sketched in Washington last November , the Community equivocated with the outgoing administration , which was in a mood for compromise . |
| 2 | The hotel which had been gutted by fire last year , re-opened for business during August . |
| 3 | The girl , referred to as L , had been born in January last year and had breathing difficulties at night . |
| 4 | The issue had been brought into focus last September , when GATT condemned a US ban on the import from Mexico of drift-netted tuna , imposed on the grounds that it was leading to the deaths of dolphins and other marine mammals . |
| 5 | John was confident enough then to leave Flynn to it and to go off himself to look at the proposed routes of the Waterford & limerick and the Waterford & kilkenny lines , both of which had been authorized by Parliament last year but neither of which had yet gone to tender . |
| 6 | But any government hesitation in approving the programme may have been reinforced by comments last week by Frank Land , professor of systems analysis at the London School of Economics . |
| 7 | He had also been tested in December last year . |
| 8 | A judge at Darlington County Court also ordered Finnegan to pay £2,400 in arrears after it emerged that no rent had been paid since July last year . |
| 9 | WOULD-BE MP No rent had been paid since July last year but arrears up to the end of November were already the subject of a previous court order and Mr Finnegan had arranged for his wife 's small income to be made available to cover those . |