Example sentences of "was [v-ing] [prep] last " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The show in the Village Troy was yabbering about last night , remember ? |
| 2 | Hallo , something was happening at last . |
| 3 | Late May , the sun was returning at last , but it was still cold . |
| 4 | Already Mrs Thatcher was looking beyond last night 's result . |
| 5 | Graeme Wright , editor of Wisden since 1986 , announced he was quitting at last night 's launch of the 1992 edition , held at the East India Club , London . |
| 6 | Sigourney was coming on last and we were going to move the seats around during the interval because we felt that she might not be able to concentrate sitting next to the heavily made-up and highly camp Julian . |
| 7 | Swindon must have thought their lucky break was coming at last when they won a penalty against Aston Villa at the County Ground … and took the lead thanks to Paul Bodin … |
| 8 | " To buy the policeman I was fighting with last night a drink . " |
| 9 | Even as the first-year girl drew her inferences , her headmaster , Manuel Lenarduzzi , was preparing for last night 's meeting with her parents and those of other first-year children who are the guinea pigs of the new system and whose future is one of attainment targets . |
| 10 | DROPPING your aitches is something of a crime if My Fair Lady is anything to go by , and the game that her fair ladyship the Queen was playing in last week 's Echo Memories had indeed committed that crime . |
| 11 | So what I want to do is to go back over what I was talking about last week but with a different emphasis . |
| 12 | I , I , I mean I do n't know , I was n't there for half the things she was talking about last night , I mean I was upstairs for three quarters of an hour trying to go to sleep |
| 13 | The cannabis was working at last . |
| 14 | Billy McNeill , who was working at last night 's game for television , recalled a visit to Canada when he was invited to watch Toronto Blizzard . |