Example sentences of "i [vb past] last [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | And of course the third group of students write and say , ‘ Yes , I applied last year to do Biology , I want to do it , and I 'm really clear I want to do it . ’ |
2 | Gray also reported making three sales ‘ three times as many as I made last year ’ . |
3 | Our modern parental investment individualistic view would n't allow you to make that error , instead you 'd say you know you 've got ta look at the costs and benefits of the mother too and perhaps there are benefits to mothers in actively testing as it were their offspring , erm rather than just passively er accepting that they 're gon na have to be mothers and gon na have to get on with it and again you see , er I would er and this may have been the big mistake I made last year , er but again I stand by my er view on this and it 's a perfectly defensible one , erm again I think those who say that abortion is unnatural and kind of erm offends against er you know nature , are wrong . |
4 | It 's that stuff I made last year and |
5 | I made last year 's . |
6 | I want to play you a recording I made last night . |
7 | ‘ I 'm prepared to double the offer I made last time . ’ |
8 | Even less radical , if I 'm to stand by the comments I made last month ) ; or something that we think is missing from current trends ( something a bit retro maybe , but where 's your originality ? ) . |
9 | Proposals I announced last month to create 12 new environmentally sensitive areas will more than treble the area covered . |
10 | The House will be aware that I announced last month the principles that I am minded to adopt next year in considering whether planned expenditure is excessive or has increased excessively . |
11 | I announced last week assistance to Russia in the safe reduction of its surplus nuclear warheads , and we are considering with other interested countries how best to help Russia use the skills of its scientists for peaceful purposes . |
12 | The only slight justification for Batty going I can see , I realised last night . |
13 | I fought last week with flu , so I ’ ll take the weekend off and start training again on Monday . ’ |
14 | At first I get on best with the Highland laddies , matching them dram for dram and can for can , taking their cigarettes and suffering their remarks on the lines of ‘ No I still smoke ’ when I offer them my Silk Cuts but gradually as we get drunker I start to feel uncomfortable with their attitude to the travellers and even more so to women , and Howie , the guy I met last night , talks about how he used to slap the wife around and now the bitch is in one of these fucking women 's refuges and if he ever finds her he 'll fucking kick seven kinds of shit out of her . |
15 | When work group I met last June to ratify the final draft of their report , the US co-chairman , Claire Harris , did not appear . |
16 | the odds will be such that it 's not worth doing for a , a place , but if you 're betting , I mean forget how much I got last year , but I think it came in about thirty to one or something . |
17 | That was n't the impression I got last night . ’ |
18 | And there 's a lot of erm new books that I got last years for the library |
19 | I guaranteed a starting price so long as I got last refusal — he was auctioning the piece . |
20 | I would prefer to see a straight Rocky-Strachan swap ( as I expected last year ) but I guess the wee man is still playing to well for this . |
21 | You know that film I taped last night with John Travolta ? |
22 | The Marshall MIDI preamp which I reviewed last month represents one approach to this ‘ new ’ technology : hybrid construction ( a couple of 12AX7/ECC83s ) , a simple layout , plus part push-button and part rotary controls . |
23 | The drawing packages I 'm looking at this month have more widespread practical use than the painting packages I reviewed last month . |
24 | Well what I tried last weekend , not quite crying but I did a sort of moody sort of thing , I di I was really quiet and I just ignored everyone and I was like really like you know did n't say a word . |
25 | Its stores I visited last weekend were packed with customers testing out its ‘ Great Autumn Value ’ campaign . |
26 | Oxford , Bristol — which I visited last week — and Newcastle are suffering great problems . |
27 | The tenanted side of the Pubmaster pub retailing division is to be called Threshold Inns and not Legend Inns as I reported last month . |
28 | Footnote : NSS readers have apparently been enquiring about the welfare of my cat , Euclid , who , as I reported last week , went missing after the earthquake . |
29 | I reported last time that I 'd made an approach to Chris . |
30 | My lover and I dined last night in Cambridge at the Master 's Lodge of his college . |