Example sentences of "had [vb pp] last " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a good walk into the girls ’ orphanage at Codlea and see about 30 of them happily at their machines under instruction from a tutor I had taught last year . |
| 2 | The former UN Special Representative for Somalia , Mohamed Sahnoun , who resigned last year , said in August ‘ … if only we had intervened last November … now we are paying the price . ’ |
| 3 | That was the sound he found to be the worst , worse even than the cursing and swearing and threats he had witnessed last Friday night . |
| 4 | City experts had calculated last night that the original million pound will be grown with wise investment to thirty eight and forty million . |
| 5 | She has been a deputy Speaker since 1987 , and is understood to have been Mr Kinnock 's choice for Speaker if Labour had won last week 's General Election . |
| 6 | I wrote up the notes , made myself some scrambled eggs , then decided to walk over to the post office to see if my brother had telephoned last night with any message . |
| 7 | Whoever had come last night had been determined to find something but must have left without doing so . |
| 8 | He wished that the BMA would now stop ‘ quibbling ’ and accept the assurance that it had accepted last week that patients will get all the drugs they need , he added . |
| 9 | Her mother was dead like the badger she had seen last week in the woods , with its hair all stiff , and its mouth curled open . |
| 10 | What came was a sort of double-image — the boy I had known up to yesterday , young , grubby , entertaining , kind , lively , with his impish , monkey-plainness ; and the face I had seen last night for the first time , a face wiped clean of everything but rapture and tenderness and astonishment , a different face , a face to love and find beautiful . |
| 11 | He 'd been exactly the same once before when he 'd found out that Pete had seen Last Tango in Paris ( ‘ Yeah , but what did they actually do ? ’ ) and now , as then , Pete had taken care to fine-tune Ted 's frustration to the point of obsession . |
| 12 | Her concern , until then , had always been that Time ( or the house ) would prevent him from reaching her , stop them from being able to meet , remove the opportunity , once and for all , for her to feel again as she had done last night , leaving her for ever empty and unsatisfied . |
| 13 | And er I had asked there was anything you know , they would be interested in and they all agreed that they wanted to start with banking , and wha , see what Sandra had done last er ta last year with a group that they thought was very good getting them to be aware |
| 14 | For a start , opponents he had skinned last season were wiser men second time around and less prone to be dismantled by the quickest feet in the Premier League . |
| 15 | But the clinching reasons were national : alarm at the soaring cost of German unity and fury at the government 's recent decision to raise taxes , after it had said last year that it would not . |
| 16 | ‘ What are you , you must be about twenty-eight now , ’ Jonquil had said last year , not bothering with an answer . |
| 17 | Faye had said last night that she would be welcome at the informal gathering , but , ‘ I 'm planning to visit my family , ’ Belinda had explained truthfully , after politely declining the invitation . |
| 18 | Despite his contention that DEC 's strategy had never changed , Kochen also said DEC 's Product Strategy Committee , chaired by founder Ken Olsen , had decided last week to stick with the MIPS-OSF/1 policy . |
| 19 | Atkinson went on holiday to America during the summer and began working himself back into shape to show Villa what they had missed last season . |
| 20 | He went on holiday to America during the summer and began working himself back into shape to show Villa what they had missed last season . |
| 21 | Yet I did have a row with Arthur Calder-Marshall , so it gave me a pang when I heard that he had died last week . |
| 22 | The water running down his body reminded him that he had cried last night . |
| 23 | Then who , she began to wonder , had supplied last night 's dinner ? |
| 24 | ‘ It is a macabre thought ’ , wrote Monica Furlong in the Spectator ( 30 June ) , ‘ that if the Canterbury Special had crashed last Tuesday morning it would have wiped out at one go practically the whole of the English episcopate together with numerous foreign archbishops and bishops , most of the Orthodox patriarchs , the leaders of the Lutheran Churches in half a dozen countries of Europe and the heads of our own Free Churches . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Gorbachev sends troops to Georgia ’ was The Times headline that day and the hotel manager greeted us with news that one of the two helicopters had crashed last Friday , leaving three people in hospital . |
| 26 | He was growing like a beanshoot and most of the things he had had last summer were too small . |
| 27 | He glanced in the window of Peggy Pine 's women 's outfitters and saw with distaste the pastel colours that Benny had admired last night . |
| 28 | After dropping four World Cup points in three games , concluding with last week 's 2–0 defeat in Norway , and then the embarrassment of losing in Boston , Millichip suggested he had over-ruled last week 's vote of confidence by Peter Swales , chairman of the FA international committee . |
| 29 | He entered her fiercely , her body and all her senses filled with him until , as before , the slumbering embers of the fire he had lit last night now blazed again , the raging flames consuming them both . |
| 30 | He had retired last year and was now only doing concert work . |