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 .
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