Example sentences of "[noun sg] had [verb] [prep] the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | What was worse , wearing it had obliged him to fasten the top button of his shirt , an exercise which had drawn his attention to an extra half inch of fat his neck had gained since the last such occasion . |
| 2 | Some kind of crisis had developed in the last few minutes , and she did n't know why she felt afraid . |
| 3 | Either the tumour in my lung had grown in the last three and a half weeks , in which case it must be even more in evidence , or it had stood still , in which case today 's X-rays must be much the same as the previous ones , or it had diminished . |
| 4 | He said water and beach quality had improved over the last five years . |
| 5 | When the train had emerged from the last tunnel on the Central Line between Stratford and Leyton , issuing with little more space to spare than toothpaste squeezed out of the nozzle of another kind of tube , somewhere past that point , though he was not sure yet where , he would climb out on to the roof of the car . |
| 6 | Dozens of beleagured businessmen in the midst of a painful recession were due to hear Michael Hesletine speak at this conference in Oxfordshire , but the President of the Board of Trade had to cancel at the last minute and the delegates instead got a DTi stand-in . |
| 7 | Around the Stratford locomotive works a powerful cooperative movement had grown in the last third of the nineteenth century , and from the Beckton gasworks in 1889 new unionism had sprung . |
| 8 | Neither man had spoken for the last few minutes . |
| 9 | The atmosphere in the tunnel had deteriorated in the last two hours as the cigarette smoke had grown thicker . |
| 10 | The knight had to swerve at the last moment to avoid a head-on collision with his opponent , but at the same time he had to couch his lance to his side as tightly as possible with his hand and under his arm so that the lance blow was struck with all the weight and momentum of his horse behind it , for if in swerving aside he moved his hand or used his arm to thrust at his opponent then a blow delivered in this manner would have no effect whatever . |
| 11 | His voice had changed during the last few words and she pushed him hard against the end of the settle as she said , ‘ No , they wo n't come running , but have you ever thought of you doin' the askin' ? |
| 12 | ‘ What 's the point ? ’ said the landlord , who for some reason had come in the last few weeks to regard the Mrs Machins as in an obscure way a rival show to himself . |
| 13 | She turned from him on the words and was aware that her tone had risen at the last . |
| 14 | Rokeya 's flat was so precisely as Lee remembered it that she felt as if no time had passed between the last time she had been inside it and the present day . |
| 15 | Cos in actual fact there was a , a lot of sort of de facto redistribution because er some of these account settling things were just so ridiculous you know make them pay for crimes their family had committed over the last sixty years or whatever . |