Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] last [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had been sacked last week , for the fourth time in a year , after a row with an unpleasant restaurant owner who had a fat pink face that looked about to snort , and chaste little feet on raised heels that he walked on as if they were trotters . |
| 2 | Daleys Dennis is also in action tomorrow , the first eight heats having been completed last night . |
| 3 | I dare say you read in the paper she had been attacked last week by some pervert . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | well it she could 've been done last year but we 've not done this year , be gone . |
| 6 | How many thing had been done last spring that could not be undone ? |
| 7 | As the news of the quarrel between the Old King 's sons spread , those who had been defeated last year took fresh courage , while others like Geoffrey of Lusignan , who had previously been too cautious to join the revolt , now decided that their moment had come . |
| 8 | The woman , in her sixties from England , had not been named last night . |
| 9 | Chester College is pressing to be allowed the title of university college , but its hopes appeared to have been dashed last month by education junior minister Tim Boswell . |
| 10 | THE marriage of tennis star John McEnroe and Tatum O'Neal seemed to have been saved last night after a series of tantrums . |
| 11 | Grasping her conference handbook tightly , she took her place in the queue where , she had been told last night over supper , she ran the risk of being stripped and searched by an army of discharged traffic wardens . |
| 12 | Peter Harris who has cancer had been told last month he only had weeks to live and has been staying in a hospice . |
| 13 | DAF yesterday won a vital cash injection from the Belgian and Dutch governments , but long-term finance from banks needed to fund a new , slimmer Daf had still not been agreed last night , even although the deadline for agreement is today . |
| 14 | I sort of looked on the on the board and saw a thirteen two pony for sale been shown last year so it 's probably a sort of a working man 's pony , you know , that sort of class . |
| 15 | The branch secretary , Kathleen McAlorum , a Motherwell district councillor , said that an emergency meeting of the branch executive had been called last Sunday after complaints and threats of resignation from members over the deal for representation on the European committee of the regions . |
| 16 | The long-sought ‘ killer application ’ — aka the next Lotus — may have been born last week : Silicon Valley start-up Arbor Software was at the NT Pavilion at Comdex in Chicago showing off its multi-dimensional spreadsheet . |
| 17 | Mr Gummer 's secret mission to the States emerged when David Curry MP , his number two at the Ministry of Agriculture , deputised at a dairy trade luncheon where he indicated that the bill to reform agricultural marketing which should have been introduced last week is likely to enter Parliament before Christmas . |
| 18 | The police say he 'd been arrested last month and questioned about threats to Mrs Smith , but he 'd been released on police bail pending further enquiries . |
| 19 | It was originally thought the contract could be given last year with work starting in late autumn . |
| 20 | It was originally thought the contract could be given last year with work starting in late autumn . |
| 21 | National Park Authorities should be given last resort compulsory purchase powers ( on a similar basis to Section 29 Orders ) to be used where voluntary agreements fail . |
| 22 | National Park Authorities should be given last resort compulsory purchase powers under new legislation on a similar basis to Section 29 ( of the Wildlife and Countryside Act , 1981 ) applying to NCC . |
| 23 | The Chilcott case was due to be heard last night by the committee , which generally meets once a fortnight . |
| 24 | They were expected to be discharged last night . |
| 25 | The intimate details of Kahlo 's and Rivera 's life together are also the subject of a Mexican/U.S. -financed film which started to be made last month by the American director Luis Valdez . |
| 26 | LIBERAL Democrat hopes of repeating Sir Ian Wrigglesworth 's 1983 victory in marginal Stockton South looked set to be dashed last night . |
| 27 | One of them , Christina Carter , eight , was due to be told last night that her 15-year-old sister , Danielle , was one of the three killed in the explosion . |
| 28 | Does my hon. Friend agree that the most exciting regional museum to be opened last year — it was opened last May by Her Majesty the Queen — was the Tullie House museum in Carlisle ? |
| 29 | Their match with Glenavon III had to be postponed last week and Glenavon are now claiming the points . |
| 30 | Neither of the men involved in the incident could be contacted last night . |