Example sentences of "had [verb] [adj] [prep] the last " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 He was conscious on admission , explained he had felt unwell for the last few days and had intended seeing a doctor today .
3 You had to leave this till the last .
4 The song , which had become popular at the last election , went something like this :
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 .
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