Example sentences of "have [verb] last year " in BNC.
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1 | One practice has used last year 's savings to clear its waiting list totally for eye , orthopaedic , and ear , nose , and throat surgery by purchasing the operations from the private sector . |
2 | At the end of its first year 's trading , turnover was around £250,000 , and the second year is going even better ; the company has achieved last year 's total within six months . |
3 | There are more members — and we receive more letters — for Steffi 's fan club service , than for any other player , even Andre Agassi , who has overtaken last year 's previously most popular male player , Stefan Edberg . |
4 | It was the same old production of Gypsy Baron they 'd done last year , but there were two huge question marks over this year 's production : two new debuts , Ingrid and Therese . |
5 | She was bright and she was presentable , which meant that she already scored on two counts over the help that they 'd hired last year . |
6 | Fernando , we are being very sensible and talking about this as we should have done last year . ’ |
7 | You could n't have missed last year 's winner that way . |
8 | After Gower came Nicholas , anxious to do well having missed last year 's NatWest final because of injury , and he hit about to great effect . |
9 | Having seen last year 's giant-killers Canada get a taste of their own medicine in Pool F , losing to the impressive Koreans ( 16–12 ) , Fiji soon realised that the other seeds were going to struggle to live with them on the rice-paddy pitch . |
10 | As a matter of practice , and because we 've all got to live , we all draw about two-thirds of what we would have got last year as we go along , then share out the rest at the end of the year . ’ |
11 | The grynd continues , but these days the whale meat is no longer needed for food , and islanders are often having to empty last year 's whale meat from the freezer to make way for the fresh catch . |
12 | So what would have happened last year when they lost over fourteen million pounds ? |
13 | Leicestershire enter the table , and might have qualified last year if an adjustment had been made then to bring their figures into line with practices adopted by all the other counties . |
14 | Widely expected to have won last year 's Turner Prize , which was , in fact , awarded to Grenville Davey , Wilding is , nevertheless , enjoying a high profile , with a museum exhibition of ten sculptures from the last ten years having been organised by the Newlyn Art Gallery , where it was seen in March , and now transferred to IKON in Birmingham ( to 5 June ) . |
15 | ‘ We would have been happy to have matched last year , so we are delighted with our performance . ’ |
16 | It was a good walk into the girls ’ orphanage at Codlea and see about 30 of them happily at their machines under instruction from a tutor I had taught last year . |
17 | But the clinching reasons were national : alarm at the soaring cost of German unity and fury at the government 's recent decision to raise taxes , after it had said last year that it would not . |
18 | ‘ What are you , you must be about twenty-eight now , ’ Jonquil had said last year , not bothering with an answer . |
19 | I 've said last year |
20 | Erm I think last year , Well what I 've got to do , I 've got last year National Grid provided them with pens . |
21 | and if , you could say that you 've got last year 's opening times |
22 | Are you optimistic that erm people will perceive the services under this budget as better than they 've had last year , or worse ? |
23 | He had retired last year and was now only doing concert work . |
24 | Sometimes Ruth wished she had told Steve what had happened last year , the affair she had allowed to happen among the glitz and excitement of the Seville Expo , the fascinating Majorcan she had met and loved on sight . |
25 | Fines of at least £50,000 were being widely predicted yesterday and there was speculation that Wimbledon 's punishment might even top the £75,000 Chelsea had to pay last year after crowd trouble at Stamford Bridge . |
26 | The students say they dropped legal action after they 'd been promised full consultation , as the Visitor of Somerville College , Lord Roy Jenkins had insisted last year . |
27 | The students say they dropped legal action after they 'd been promised full consultation , as the Visitor of Somerville College , Lord Roy Jenkins had insisted last year . |
28 | But still they slandered him and conspired against him , not only the Welsh Minorites of Llanfaes , whose house he had burned last year , but the Franciscans everywhere , in Norfolk , in Leicester , in Kent . |
29 | She 's got last year 's basic . |
30 | Corals have promoted last year 's winner The Fellow to 5–4 for Kempton , although that may well change again today after the Hennessy . |