Example sentences of "have [adv] [verb] the last [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The movement has even reached the last bastion of the British banger , pub grub . |
| 2 | Valerie Stevens had been in the house to get more coffee and as she stepped through the patio doors she stood for a moment staring at Rachel in horror , having only heard the last part of the conversation . |
| 3 | Two a.m. the next morning found me dragging my aching body and borrowed paste board back towards home , having just stuck the last piece in place . |
| 4 | He treated the much-vaunted pace pairing of Wasim and Waqar as though they were tame medium pacers , not the men who had mercilessly destroyed the last threads of his Test confidence . |
| 5 | Vaillancourt , a Canadian now living in California , had nothing to lose by his all-out effort , but would still have been beaten by George Lindemann if Larry , one of his two World Cup horses , had not hit the last fence . |
| 6 | On second thoughts , she wished she had not uttered the last sentence . |
| 7 | But Paris had not solved the last enigma . |
| 8 | ‘ I 've just missed the last bus . |
| 9 | But , from Durham , Dick Wilkinson writes : ‘ I 've just spent the last half-hour with my arm down the toilet trying to unblock it . |
| 10 | Together they 've got the attitude that comes with being a young band who 've just spent the last month in the studio recording an album , tentatively called ‘ Revelation/s ’ , which will more than fulfil the potential they displayed earlier this year when — along with the likes of near neighbours Ride ( both originally come from Oxford ) and Teenage Fanclub — they were seen as the frontrunners of the rising young guitar bands . |
| 11 | Together they 've got the attitude that comes with being a young band who 've just spent the last month in the studio recording an album , tentatively called ‘ Revelation/s ’ , which will more than fulfil the potential they displayed earlier this year when — along with the likes of near neighbours Ride ( both originally come from Oxford ) and Teenage Fanclub — they were seen as the frontrunners of the rising young guitar bands . |
| 12 | Christina had just received the last consignment of furniture , arriving in the nick of time to prevent it being dumped higgledy-piggledy in the reception hall . |
| 13 | She had just read the last paragraph when the kitchen door opened and Matey entered , far earlier than she normally did , to stare at the unlikely scene before her : Dr Neil characteristically leaning back in his wooden Windsor armchair , McAllister sitting on her stool , reading the paper , the used coffee-cups and the empty biscuit plate sitting between them . |
| 14 | In the promenade bus-shelter they broke the window they had n't broken the last time they 'd visited it . |
| 15 | Hoping against all hope that Claire had n't snapped the last link between them and gone to look for that bastard … |
| 16 | And Lewis 's phone call had surely hammered the last coffin-nail into the Cedric-Lucy theory . |
| 17 | The team of three , led by Dr Peter Holmes , have just finished the last field work of a three-year study of the effect on invertebrates of different peatland management strategies across Wales . |
| 18 | If you have n't cheated and have really covered the last column , you 'll be lucky if you manage to get ten examples down and in the right places . |