Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [det] [prep] the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he 'd done that in the last erm , he 'd have won it . |
| 2 | But we did mention this at the last meeting did n't we ? |
| 3 | It would provide 20,000 temporary jobs per month , especially in rural areas at times when there was less work , and would include a low-cost housing programme , a national food programme , an urban community development programme , and a project to bring help to eastern El Salvador , which he said had suffered most in the last 10 years . |
| 4 | You had to leave this till the last . |
| 5 | He looked around the room where she had spent much of the last few years . |
| 6 | He was in advertising ; he and his partner , Toby Rogers , had their own agency , and paradoxically Mark had spent most of the last year back in the States . |
| 7 | This would give him time to get back to Mrs Lorimer 's , out of his jeans and grubby shirt , and into something that smelt less heavily of the smoke , sweat and beer of the Prince of Wales where he had spent most of the last few working days . |
| 8 | ‘ Anyway , for some reason Heather wanted to know all about the last time Clare had been here , which , as it happened , I remembered very well , not just because it turned out to be the last I ever saw of her , but on account of something odd that had occurred . |