Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] last [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | JUNIOR education minister William Shelton did not know whether he was coming or going last week when he gave an experimental communications system known as Project Universe its first public airing . |
| 2 | It is Andy Williams or lames Last billing and cooing . |
| 3 | The well-anticipated under-$5,000 Sun Microsystems Inc colour workstation that materialised last month as the $4,300 SparcClassic is being depreciated in some quarters as a bait-and-switch box for the more expensive $8,000 Sun LX . |
| 4 | The month-old ‘ final offensive ’ has been most successful this year because a split that erupted last August among rebel ranks has not yet been patched up in the face of Khartoum 's assaults . |
| 5 | The sources said he is infuriated with her after a row that erupted last week , and is likely to distance himself from her . |
| 6 | ‘ He was in that train , the one that crashed last night , the derailment south of Kendal . |
| 7 | That more than matched last year 's total which , considering the unseasonally wet weather this July , delighted the crew . |
| 8 | I hope THAT SOAKING LAST NIGHT DID N'T BOTHER YOU ? |
| 9 | Whilst the conference lacked the hardware launches that dominated last year 's show , companies announced more software for their systems as supercomputers try to move into the mainstream . |
| 10 | as if it 's just over the horizon , waiting to happen to me , as weird and wonderful as all the things that happened last autumn . |
| 11 | And while it is easy enough for an experienced journalist to write that synopsis from memory ( checking for the elusive name of Software Arts and making sure that it really was PrairieTek that vanished last year ) , it would take a deal of research and above all deep thought to put together a dissertation on why things panned out the way they did , the fatal mistakes , the good decisions that each company made to achieve triumph or disaster , or both in quick succession . |
| 12 | Hotel and catering group Forte has launched a new upmarket brand , the Heritage collection , which marks the latest phase in the corporate identity revamp that began last summer . |
| 13 | After the rash of Chinese shots by Western photojournalists that followed last year 's student uprising , Zeng Nian 's views of Peking come as a welcome and refreshing change , giving us the chance to see the country through Chinese eyes |
| 14 | That it is proceeding at all , despite the intense financial and media scepticism that followed last summer 's initial announcement , is a tribute to Sir Denys Henderson and his team . |
| 15 | Candidates for transplants normally need careful selection — which was obviously impossible in the emergency that preceded last operation . |
| 16 | COT deaths were more than halved last year following a national campaign to sleep babies on their back , it was revealed yesterday . |
| 17 | COT deaths were more than halved last year after a national campaign to sleep babies on their back , new figures show today . |
| 18 | Young lad that started last month he 's doing |
| 19 | The Woburn order included dwarf plums and cherries , French pears , an Elruge nectarine , and other fruit , with more young trees ‘ to make good those that died last year ’ in accordance with Gurle 's guarantee to supply ‘ the best of every sort in case any fail or die ’ . |
| 20 | And see who 's not coming this year that did last year . |
| 21 | First of all we SUFFERED that defeat last Saturday next I knacker my ankle playing on Sunday and lastly I arrive in Northampton on Monday morning to find that we could only get tickets for Arsenal end on Tuesday ( So Gavin it was n't me being escorted away by the men in black , even though it the current season does n't improve quickly I might be escorted by mem in white . ) |
| 22 | These are n't the same Voxes that appeared last month . |
| 23 | I think that the hon. Gentleman is referring to certain press reports that appeared last week which referred to an alleged internal British Rail document about the implications of privatisation for InterCity . |
| 24 | There is a reason for this Chairman is that erm I think erm many of us and I am sure we would be deserved by recent articles in the Daily Telegraph er particularly the one that appeared last week which erm referred , I can see in the report , that it referred to a report which is very critical of the work of Her Majesty 's Inspectorate of erm Pollution . |
| 25 | Borrowdale seems relatively quiet but just reported , although climbed last year , on Caffell Side Crag , Steve Crowe , Simon Gee and Bob Bennet added Miss O'Gynist , E2 5c , taking a crack just right of Street Walker . |
| 26 | In the end it was n't so much an assassination as a massacre , with 6,121 of the 7,098 American apple varieties that blossomed last century now extinct . |
| 27 | But there was none of the bad feeling that marred last year 's contest at the end of the race and each crew cheering the other . |
| 28 | Throughout the year-long ‘ structural impediments initiative ’ talks that ended last June , the Americans pressed the Japanese government to abandon its single-minded support of businessmen , farmers and other interest groups and do something instead about providing better amenities for its people . |
| 29 | More than 36,000 Chinese people have turned themselves in for economic crimes during a 10-week grace period that ended last week . |
| 30 | Computervision is expected to report a loss for the quarter that ended last week , after earning $4.8m in the prior quarter . |