Example sentences of "but last [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But last night they at least could not be faulted on their spirit . |
| 2 | But last night they produced the sort of display that has taken them to Wembley . |
| 3 | But last night they admitted for the first time that Mr Mellor did not refer it to the then Prime Minister , Mrs Thatcher . |
| 4 | But last night they had broken their own rules . |
| 5 | They may have rounded on their heroes on Saturday , but last night they got behind Celtic from start to finish . |
| 6 | Clive Exton 's determined melding of two separate Jeeves stories per episode continues to give me trouble , but last night it achieved a climax worthy of the original as the straw-boatered burghers from Birdsburg queued to press the flesh of the plethoric Dook of Chis-wick . |
| 7 | News at Ten may have been ahead of the BBC 's Nine O'Clock News in the ratings but last night it seemed unsure of what it was trying to do . |
| 8 | This morning I can kind of feel it , but last night it was as if I was when I swallowed there was a big lump . |
| 9 | But last night it cost fourteen year old Lewis Hall his life . |
| 10 | The former England Under-21 player has found the net just twice in 20 matches this season but last night he insisted : ‘ My confidence is still sky-high . |
| 11 | But last night he wept with delight after scoring the most vital goal of his career . |
| 12 | But last night he was in humiliating retreat after protests from German finance minister Horst Koehler . |
| 13 | But last night he signalled he is ready to launch a comeback with the reserves within the next week . |
| 14 | But last night he insisted he had no grudge against Taylor , even though in his column he openly discussed his innermost anguish at being one of only three England players not to kick a ball during finals . |
| 15 | NORWICH manager Mike Walker does n't believe his team can win the Premier League — but last night he vowed the Canaries would fight beak and claw to stay top . |
| 16 | But last night he begged Newcastle upon Tyne 's Metro FM to play instead ‘ Now You 're Gone ’ by Whitesnake , the last song they had listened to together . |
| 17 | But last night he had been different . |
| 18 | But last night he vowed to soldier on , saying : ‘ I was encouraged by telephone messages of support from other managers , including my predecessor Paul Malone . ’ |
| 19 | But last night he had refused even to consider what she had told him , tossing it to one side as though it did n't matter . |
| 20 | This is very embarrassing but last night I got into a bit of a state about not hearing from you for so long and I 'm afraid I sent you a completely mad letter which I … |
| 21 | But last night I had a strange dream , a terrible dream ! |
| 22 | ‘ I would have thought so too , but last night I spent a whole dinner sitting between two girls who talked about nothing but horses . |
| 23 | Last week I was gutted at the sale of Batts , but last night I was so happy that the scum failed . |
| 24 | ‘ Maybe this is an old-fashioned viewpoint , but last night I thought something fairly important went on between the two of us … ? ’ |
| 25 | The average family pays nearly £2,000 a year in interest on debts and mortgages , but last year we ran our household budgets in the black for the first time since the mid-Eighties — and managed to tuck away £10.6 billion in savings . |
| 26 | We 've never been keen gardeners but last year we decided to make a special effort and bought a big selection of plants and seeds . |
| 27 | It is true we did increase the pupil to teacher ratio to one to thirteen in line with the F E er guidelines and that of course did provide some extra nursery places but last year we did put in real resources and actually increased the number of nursery places by about four hundred which involved the development of several new nursery classes , so it is completely untrue to say that the Conservatives attempted to increase nursery education on the cheap . |
| 28 | But last year it sold seven million bibles translated into 119 languages to 90 countries and so became the world 's largest exporter of bibles . |
| 29 | ‘ I 've been writing short stories and poems for years but last year I decided to try and get something published . |
| 30 | You what s normally happens is that the following year when you make profit you say ah but last year I made er you know I made a loss of ten thousand pound set that off against the profit of ten thousand pound I made this year so that tax pay losses can be carried forward there are other more complex ways of doing it too but that 's the standard sort of way , I think . |