Example sentences of "[noun sg] had [verb] in the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some kind of crisis had developed in the last few minutes , and she did n't know why she felt afraid . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The atmosphere in the tunnel had deteriorated in the last two hours as the cigarette smoke had grown thicker . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |