Example sentences of "had [verb] [prep] the last [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Regeling , who had one nasty fall , had to wait until the last race for his first win . |
| 2 | They and the Carters were to have shared it that year with the computer analyst and his wife , but one of this couple 's children was involved in an accident and they had to cancel at the last minute . |
| 3 | Dozens of beleagured businessmen in the midst of a painful recession were due to hear Michael Hesletine speak at this conference in Oxfordshire , but the President of the Board of Trade had to cancel at the last minute and the delegates instead got a DTi stand-in . |
| 4 | Bush droned on about good and evil , right and wrong , Hitler , Munich , appeasement , using all the same phrases that most of us thought we had heard for the last time , after the revolutions of 1989 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | She might have been trying to reach our Post for help , but she had crawled under the last parapet , and could go no farther . |
| 8 | Kenneth Baker , the party chairman , said yesterday that Cabinet ministers would play a stronger role in government than they had done over the last decade , and there would have to be public spending increases in the 1990s to pay for an improved quality of life . |
| 9 | Mr Fallon said the Government was providing much more money for training than it had done in the last recession in the '80s . |
| 10 | Instead of flying straight to the United States , the Shah had decided at the last minute to accept an invitation from Anwar Sadat of Egypt to pause briefly in Aswan . |
| 11 | In that case , it was logical to assume that Guy Sterne had decided at the last minute to avail himself of his unexpectedly empty villa for an impromptu break in the sun . |
| 12 | Mr Dick Davison , of the Independent Schools Information Service , said a dozen private schools had closed in the last year . |
| 13 | The Youngs , whose Slipperclub had finished third , were embraced by the hyperjoyous Unwins and were invited to their table , leaving the poor Flokatis to seek solace with others whose hopes had died on the last bend . |
| 14 | The Iraqi Health Ministry said on Aug. 26 that 14,333 children had died in the last year owing to the absence of medical supplies . |
| 15 | Of the seven warmest years in the 20th century ( which were , in order , 1990 , 1988 , 1983 , 1987 , 1944 , 1989 and 1981 ) six had occurred in the last decade . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | I did not see the trophy presented this time as I had to leave before the last race . |
| 18 | Some of these plants had arrived in the last box , but in a bad condition and , moreover , unnamed . |
| 19 | At the beginning of September 1942 , the German 6th Army under General Paulus had reached Stalingrad — a city whose capture would have had symbolic significance ; on 19 November a major Soviet counter-offensive had begun and led , within only a few weeks , to the encirclement of the 250,000 men of the 6th Army ; by Christmas 1942 the situation was as good as hopeless ; on 10 January , the last Russian assault commenced ; on 31 January Paulus — disobeying orders of the Führer that the troops had to fight to the last man — surrendered , and almost 90,000 survivors entered Soviet captivity , from whom only a small minority were to return . |
| 20 | My husband was going out to Qatar , that pear drop of moonscape pitted with rich oases and edged with ancient trading posts , the Emirate that had refused at the last moment to join Sheikh Zayed 's dream of unity . |
| 21 | When the train had emerged from the last tunnel on the Central Line between Stratford and Leyton , issuing with little more space to spare than toothpaste squeezed out of the nozzle of another kind of tube , somewhere past that point , though he was not sure yet where , he would climb out on to the roof of the car . |
| 22 | Luckily , one of the participants had to withdraw at the last moment and taking her place on the team , I went off in search of sponsors . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Look what had happened at the last seance . |
| 25 | It had happened on the last occasion as well , for Venice was delighted with Niccolò vander Poele , who had destroyed the plants and was freeing Cyprus , God be good , of the Genoese . |
| 26 | Rokeya 's flat was so precisely as Lee remembered it that she felt as if no time had passed between the last time she had been inside it and the present day . |
| 27 | It turned out that Anderson had lived in the last apartment that we 'd been in , moving out the day after we arrived . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The knight had to swerve at the last moment to avoid a head-on collision with his opponent , but at the same time he had to couch his lance to his side as tightly as possible with his hand and under his arm so that the lance blow was struck with all the weight and momentum of his horse behind it , for if in swerving aside he moved his hand or used his arm to thrust at his opponent then a blow delivered in this manner would have no effect whatever . |
| 30 | She reflected on how much she had changed since the last festival , less than seven weeks ago . |