Example sentences of "[vb pp] last " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dermot Reeve clipped Waqar 's first delivery for a single but his second ball uprooted last man Richard Illingworth 's leg stump . |
| 2 | Probably caught last night . ’ |
| 3 | I got caught last week because I got fed the wrong line . |
| 4 | Despite worse than expected profits reported last month , Neill 's shares lost only 6p to 191p as bid speculation limited the fall . |
| 5 | The Department of Health also said the 88 new Aids cases reported last month was the highest increase for some time . |
| 6 | Mrs Xoliswa Falati was reported last week to have been involved in an eviction dispute with Mrs Mandela , wife of the African National Congress leader , and to have telephoned a newspaper seeking help , before being driven off in a car with several men . |
| 7 | The date of the World Veterans ' Championships in Turku , Finland , is July 18–28 , and not as reported last month . |
| 8 | In results reported last summer ( New Scientist , vol 95 , p WS ) , their data confirmed quantum mechanics to within an even higher degree of accuracy than previous experiments . |
| 9 | Beside the flowing signature is a newspaper cutting : Captain G.A. Pennington , whose tragic death in an aeroplane at Doncaster was reported last week , was the son of the vicar of Ashburnham in Sussex . |
| 10 | A phone tiff between him and Fergie was recorded by an eavesdropper , it was reported last night . |
| 11 | FOLLOWING our revelation yesterday of claims about Di and her friend Major James Hewitt , it was reported last night that a photo exists of him stripped to the waist as he chats to the princess . |
| 12 | Sun Microsystems Inc has denied that it has plans to develop a Sparc implementation of Microsoft Corp 's NT operating system , as reported last week in the US paper Open Systems Today : the paper quoted Sun president Scott McNealy as saying ‘ NT needs to be ported to Sparc — if they [ Microsoft ] do n't do it , they are missing the boat ’ ; despite the denials , observers hint darkly that some sort of effort involving Sparc and Microsoft is under way , and will come to the surface over the next few months . |
| 13 | Sun Microsystems Inc has denied that it has plans to develop a Sparc port of Microsoft Corp 's NT operating system , as reported last week in the US paper Open Systems Today . |
| 14 | TopLog International has not yet put pen to paper with Univel Inc to support Unixware , as reported last week ( Ux No 399 ) . |
| 15 | I mean if you 'd have been reported last week for it you would think Yeah I 'm damn sure that 's right , you know . |
| 16 | As reported last month four boys have been suspended for unacceptable behaviour and have expressed no regret for their actions . |
| 17 | James Courtney crashed at the very fast Mathers cross bend on the first 250 race , but was reported last night to be sitting up in hospital . |
| 18 | Already , Cohen has isolated more than a thousand contigs , each containing an average of 15 yeast artificial chromosomes average of 15 yeast artificial chromosomes ( YACs ) and covering more than 70 per cent of the genome , while the number of markers on the map that Weissenbach and his colleagues reported last year has since been more than doubled and is set shortly to double again . |
| 19 | It was reported last night in my local paper ‘ Irish Press ’ that Rocky stated that he did not want to leave Leeds and was prepared to wait his chance like everybody else . |
| 20 | The figures also show that a further seventeen AIDS deaths were reported last month , bringing the total for the year so far to three hundred and one . |
| 21 | Waites envisages a new , government-funded , independent organisation which would be responsible for raising standards of food hygiene by publicity and by the training of food-handlers. 60,000 cases of food poisoning were reported last year , representing a threefold rise since 1980 . |
| 22 | Only 18 cases were reported last year , yet the disease is caused by a bacteria present on one in three people . |
| 23 | Forty six thefts of vehicles were reported last week . |
| 24 | The jump follows a big increase in bad debts reported last week by the private banking operations of Lloyds Bank . |
| 25 | He has declared himself general co-ordinator of a new Parliament of Popular Power which , although it has no legislative authority , appears destined to take the place of the country 's National Assembly , which was dissolved last month . |
| 26 | Mr Devlin 's constituency was a marginal seat before Parliament was dissolved last week , having a majority of 774 . |
| 27 | Whoever had come last night had been determined to find something but must have left without doing so . |
| 28 | I went to change me poll tax and er I says to her , I says , I should be court to Monday oh she says you 've got a fifteen pound court thing , I says aye , she says oh well that 's fifteen pound , I says it 's not cos I 'm not paying it I says I 'm not paying the fifteen pound to the court , I says , I says how come last year I did n't pay right round to February last year I said and yet I , your last payment 's next month , you know , she said oh well they 're stricter this year she says , she , if you 'd pay the half year you 'd of been alright |
| 29 | The M6 crosses on the Thornbridge Viaduct , a viaduct which has been extensively repaired last year using a very powerful water lance to cut out deteriorated concrete , a German tool being used in Britain for the first time . |
| 30 | BRITAIN faces the prospect of a huge energy shortfall of up to 25 per cent by the middle 1990s unless new generating plant is brought on stream to replace the abandoned Pressurised Water Reactor programme , sources claimed last night . |