Example sentences of "[noun pl] had [verb] [prep] the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Dick Davison , of the Independent Schools Information Service , said a dozen private schools had closed in the last year . |
| 2 | Matt wanted to know how her parents had fared over the last few years , and as we were about to leave the table he asked her to stay and tell him about them . |
| 3 | At the beginning of September 1942 , the German 6th Army under General Paulus had reached Stalingrad — a city whose capture would have had symbolic significance ; on 19 November a major Soviet counter-offensive had begun and led , within only a few weeks , to the encirclement of the 250,000 men of the 6th Army ; by Christmas 1942 the situation was as good as hopeless ; on 10 January , the last Russian assault commenced ; on 31 January Paulus — disobeying orders of the Führer that the troops had to fight to the last man — surrendered , and almost 90,000 survivors entered Soviet captivity , from whom only a small minority were to return . |
| 4 | Some of these plants had arrived in the last box , but in a bad condition and , moreover , unnamed . |
| 5 | Luckily , one of the participants had to withdraw at the last moment and taking her place on the team , I went off in search of sponsors . |
| 6 | Caroline Whitehead admitted things had improved in the last two weeks , but said there were still problems . |
| 7 | Quite a few odd things had happened in the last two days and , though this was the first time she 'd admitted it even to herself , she 'd felt vaguely uneasy , threatened , ever since she 'd arrived in Venice . |
| 8 | Several foreign ships had arrived within the last twenty four hours . |
| 9 | In 1983 a hairy snail was discovered in the Thames marshes near Kew , where its ancestors had lived for the last 10,000 years . |
| 10 | I saw yesterday' in Markstadt a shelter which has beds for 100 of these children ; 42 children had died in the last 24 hours , but these places had been filled up . |
| 11 | The Iraqi Health Ministry said on Aug. 26 that 14,333 children had died in the last year owing to the absence of medical supplies . |
| 12 | It sounded as if her plans had changed at the last minute and , embarrassed by all the trouble Andrew had gone to on her behalf , she had taken the easy way out by returning the keys without a message . |
| 13 | The Youngs , whose Slipperclub had finished third , were embraced by the hyperjoyous Unwins and were invited to their table , leaving the poor Flokatis to seek solace with others whose hopes had died on the last bend . |