Example sentences of "he had [verb] [prep] the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | He decided the wisest course was to pool all he had made over the last two years , enabling Julian to purchase the lease of a high street property . |
| 2 | He had never enjoyed the thought of making love in a standing position since the embarrassment he had suffered on the last occasion , about a year before . |
| 3 | The judges decided 7-0 against Mr Santos on the grounds that the party he had joined at the last minute in order to stand , the little-known Brazilian Municipalist Party which was founded by Pentecostal preachers , had failed to register in time . |
| 4 | Although Creggan had progressed northwards well he had slowed during the last day or two as he grew tired easily and rested by feeding off rubbish dumps he had seen where gulls and crows fed . |
| 5 | At home , amongst his people , Mr Kinnock 's speech provoked the most spontaneous and enthusiastic standing ovation he had received in the last three weeks on the campaign trail . |
| 6 | He mounted the horse he had led for the last hour or so and walked it cautiously down into Buttermere which he entered with the utter conviction that he had been there before . |
| 7 | Mr McQuaker said he had just left work at the Haughton Road service station at 9pm as he had done for the last 25 years when the youths pounced . |
| 8 | In the editorial which he wrote for the last issue , he discussed the general political situation which had provoked in him a depression of spirit so different from anything he had experienced in the last fifty years as " to be a new emotion " ; but he also confessed to a feeling of staleness as editor . |
| 9 | Yet she had to admit he had changed over the last few days . |
| 10 | So , together with his engraving , etching and aquatinting materials and his pigments for colours which he always mixed carefully himself , it was in the summer of 1800 that he decided to go north ( to the Lakes ) to begin once again and to try to rid himself of all he had learnt over the last decade and ‘ to adhere as faithfully as possible to nature . |
| 11 | Kaas had said nothing , had just wondered what they would say about his public image if they ever discovered the extent of the terrorist acts he had unleashed in the last few months . |