Example sentences of "had [verb] [prep] [pos pn] last [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the first things Tolkien did after his return to Oxford in 1925 was to set up an Icelandic reading group such as he had enjoyed during his last job , as Professor of English at Leeds . |
| 2 | Before her eyes arose a memory of how he had looked at her last night . |
| 3 | Among other matters , the G-7 Finance Ministers reaffirmed their concern over the yen , although they noted that it had stabilized since their last meeting in April . |
| 4 | Rather desperately , Celia steered the conversation round to her and Brian 's new house in the country , how Alison and Geoffrey must come and stay , that they would be less than fifty miles apart ; while Alison , obviously thankful to turn to less delicate matters , regaled her with a description of all she had been doing in her garden and some rather dull anecdotes about the neighbours whom Celia and Brian had met on their last visit . |
| 5 | He met Agnes , the brazen lady-in-waiting , whom he had met on his last visit to Kinghorn . |
| 6 | She visualised the copy of Cross 's Dictionary of the Christian Church which she had noticed on her last visit . |
| 7 | But still the urge to express her feelings tormented her and at last , in defiance of that dislike she had felt on their last meeting , she sat down and wrote to the person to whom she had once been most close , to Mrs Browning . |
| 8 | Although he might have decided to forget the way they had clashed at their last meeting , she had no doubt that Luke 's misgivings were still there . |
| 9 | He noticed that hundreds of mushrooms had sprouted since his last visit , some as large as saucers . |
| 10 | Remembering the knife he had displayed on our last night in Valladolid , I took fright and denied it . |
| 11 | Of the drought he had experienced on his last visit , Gould wrote that , ’ It is easier for the imagination to conceive than the pen to depict the horrors of so dreadful a visitation . ’ |
| 12 | Something odd had happened to her last night . |
| 13 | There had been genuine fear on some of those people 's faces when she had mentioned Martin 's name , a fear she could appreciate after what had happened to her last night , but it had n't shaken her determination to get to the bottom of the story . |
| 14 | And sometimes , as had happened to her last Sunday in church , he came in person and snatched them up in his everlasting arms . |
| 15 | Uncomfortable memories of what had happened on his last visit to the Mar Girgis flooded into Owen 's mind . |
| 16 | I had learnt German at Dartmouth where I had specialized in my last year in what would now be known as arts subjects : languages , English and history . |
| 17 | I went down to the tap room and ordered a meal though I was hungrier for the dark-eyed slattern I had glimpsed on my last visit with Benjamin . |
| 18 | She was expressing much the same sentiments as Bob Boothby had expressed in his last letter to me , and which I have heard other old people express too . |
| 19 | In a codicil Sir William asked Charles Greville , his heir , from whom he had ‘ bought ’ Emma , to pay the debts she had accumulated since his last settlement . |
| 20 | Lewis spent Christmas Day 1931 transcribing this ditty for Warnie , who had returned for his last spell of service in Shanghai . |
| 21 | Asked if the Princess had changed since their last meeting at the mission in September 1991 , Mother Teresa said : ‘ She was as I know her . ’ |
| 22 | Feelings like those feelings Guy Sterne had roused in her last night were anathema . |