Example sentences of "last [noun] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | The emotions of the last minutes had drained her . |
| 2 | Indeed his last hours had been made even more bitter by the news that John had deserted him . |
| 3 | I knew then that my last hours had come but was in such agony that I began to wish they would come sooner . |
| 4 | Another breakthrough came with the discovery that the Swindon nightclub where Mrs Campbell spent her last hours had filmed her leaving the premises on its security video . |
| 5 | Another breakthrough came with the discovery that the Swindon nightclub where Mrs Campbell spent her last hours had filmed her leaving the premises on its security video . |
| 6 | You just ca n't trust these thespians — any residual loyalty vanishes once the last cheque has been banked : according to the Evening Standard , Maureen Lippmann , who played the ‘ typical Jewish mother ’ Beattie ( BT , geddit ? — we did n't at the time , but then we detest brutal acronyms in place of meaningful names ) to the mutual benefit of British Telecommunications Plc and her bank balance , when asked to reveal her favourite word , replied , without hesitation , ‘ Mercurial ’ . |
| 7 | That last sentence has more to do with Kinnock than with Major . |
| 8 | Ramsay waited impatiently after the last riders had passed out of sight . |
| 9 | The last hour had left her mentally exhausted . |
| 10 | I caught a glimpse of her , eyes red with fury , and I wondered if my last hour had come , but Bill , the man who was on guard , managed to push her back with the aid of a large plank , and she soon quietened down when we passed her babies back . ’ |
| 11 | Sorry , that last bit has strayed out of my other all-purpose article , the one about whether biographers should expose their subjects ' dirty little habits . |
| 12 | One if its last acts had been to settle debts amounting to £182,500,000 ( US$297,657,500 as at April 2 , 1990 ) in an out-of-court settlement with 36 creditors on March 30 . |
| 13 | THE last hope has gone for the eight small rural schools facing closure in the south of the province . |
| 14 | Eventually the flow dried up and a head-count revealed a total of thirty-two , including the original four-man patrol , when the last captive had been locked in the back of the prison rig . |
| 15 | After the last captive had been secured , the cordon remained in place to bag any stragglers , waiting until their colleagues who had been doing the sweep through the woods arrived to join up with them again . |
| 16 | It is important to note that if the pledge that the Labour party made at the last election had been carried through , dramatically less money would have been spent on health , for the reasons that my hon. Friend gave . |
| 17 | The last story has to do with the girlfriend of a friend . |
| 18 | This last index has been a boon to many UK fund managers concerned over relative performance , since it has been weighed down by the Tokyo market , which has been in sustained fall for a period of nearly three years . |
| 19 | The last appendix has nine pages of blank work sheets for duplication and use for calculations , tension graphs and reporting measurements . |
| 20 | The old saddler used to prepare and tan the leather himself , and even slaughter the horses ; and this last function has given the word its more usual modern meaning . |
| 21 | How was she ever going to get the chance to think things through if her last sanctuary had been commandeered by an absenting workman ? |
| 22 | In this case the supplier of credit does retain ownership while the monthly instalments on the Volvo truck are paid , usually until the very last instalment has been paid . |
| 23 | Conditional sale — the price of the product is paid by instalments , but the product remains in the ownership of the seller for a pre-set period of time , often until the last instalment has been paid . |
| 24 | We rushed up the last pitches having learned a lesson — next time I 'll take a windbreaker , even on a hot day . |
| 25 | It would seem to me that if you 've got to prove a case that there that it is the place of last resort , and that place of last resort has got to be at least five thousand dwellings , you are in a place where there is absolute massive growth of demand , and improbably no one has been able to meet a five year supply of housing land , if you are to meet it in the term , if y if those are the criteria to meeting the terms of th of this sort of plan , and in fact what I would submit is that a new settlement solution is very much a part and parcel of a long term solution , and that 's where essentially the County strategy is quite right in proposing a new settlement in the context of the greenbelt , because also greenbelt is a long term solution . |
| 26 | Therefore , a system was introduced which enabled regiments to appoint honorary colonels of their own choosing so that they could speak on their behalf and as a last resort have a direct right to apply to the sovereign in order to make representations on behalf of their unit . |
| 27 | The Conservatives , who introduced the country-wide two-tier system , came to believe that ‘ in the case of Greater London and the six metropolitan counties … the hopes of the last reorganisation have been disappointed ’ ( DOE 1983b:2 ) . |
| 28 | Yorick had attempted suicide three times in the last four years ; and the last attempt had nearly succeeded . |
| 29 | There will always be the question as to what would have happened if the last remedy had been the first prescription but in my experience that 's the sort of question homœopaths ask rather than patients ! |
| 30 | Now fantastic rumours started to circulate to the effect that the Virgin of Fatima might appear again — her last apparition had been in Portugal on 13 October 1927 . |