Example sentences of "had the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whitton pulled ahead five minutes later when he cantered through a demoralised defence to shoot home unopposed , but it was Shakespeare ( who else ? ) who had the last word , breaking the strikers ’ monopoly with the eighth goal , 10 minutes from the end . |
| 2 | We both started to laugh as I had the last few words on the subject . |
| 3 | The Scouse always had the last word . |
| 4 | Emburey and Stevenson nudged their singles , but Holding had the last word . |
| 5 | Three minutes from the end Saints had the last word when Cherry 's powerful drive squirmed out of Marshall 's hands trickled in at the post . |
| 6 | Though Huw Davies had the last word in that game , Gallagher 's work at the back of the line-out was missed . |
| 7 | But the old soldier had the last laugh . |
| 8 | At that point , rather late one night , he and I had the last of a long sequence of talks . |
| 9 | He had the last word , and everyone looked to him as the brains behind Huddersfield 's phenomenal success . |
| 10 | Stephen had the last word with a shot which flew inches past the top corner . |
| 11 | On training matters , Annie deferred to her husband ; on everything else , she had the last word . |
| 12 | As property prices in London were moving upwards , Eva 's shrewd plan was to decorate the flat as we had the last house , sell at a profit , and move on . |
| 13 | On 9 April , this neglected reality had the last laugh . |
| 14 | Grover Cleveland had the last laugh about reports of siring a bastard son a decade before his 1884 campaign . |
| 15 | At least the Scots had the last word . |
| 16 | But Kiwomya had the last word , capitalising on a slice of good fortune to make his birthday celebrations complete . |
| 17 | Rufus had the last bottle of wine in his left hand and a glassful in his right . |
| 18 | ROBIN Smith , Hampshire 's defiant middle-order maestro , yesterday had the last word in his summer-long bitter duel with Waqar Younis . |
| 19 | And hundreds of steam fans who see diesels as the soulless railways ogre of the modern age certainly had the last chuckle at Holyhead . |
| 20 | She had the last of the shirts pegged to the frame . |
| 21 | The trouble was , neither of us had been here before and Holyhead Mountain in the gathering gloom emphatically had the last laugh . |
| 22 | Quite apart from its technical ingenuity , its wily thematic evolutions and transformations , I love its eccentricity : only Bernstein could have ‘ tuned in ’ to Plato 's timeless dinner party and still had the last laugh . |
| 23 | However , had the last element in p been other than 4 , the three pairs of equations would have given three different answers . |
| 24 | And you do n't fall asleep , as you are inclined to do if you try to be an absorbent sponge , soaking in what the authors say as if they had the last word . |
| 25 | But he had the last laugh — the Blades dumped Manchester United 2–1 on the opening day ! |
| 26 | Well , who was it who had the last laugh now ? |
| 27 | But former Blueman David McCallan had the last laugh on Linfield with a brilliant winner four minutes from time to put Bangor into the Bass Irish Cup semi-finals for the first time in 25 years . |
| 28 | No sooner had the last votes been cast than the IRA — fellow republicans — added to those problems . |
| 29 | ‘ I remember the hangover I had the last time I went on the tiles with you , and tomorrow I have to ply squash at nine . |
| 30 | Perhaps the summer would be as marvellous as had the last . |