Example sentences of "had [verb] [det] [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 | You had to leave this till the last . |
3 | He looked around the room where she had spent much of the last few years . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | 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 . |