Example sentences of "[pers pn] had [verb] the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | That is why I had to spend the last half an hour intervening and telephoning both Departments to try to deal with the problem . |
| 2 | I had enjoyed the last two months greatly but the journey , though arduous , had involved no real danger . |
| 3 | I had remembered the last time I had stood in a garden with a man . |
| 4 | Well , to hell with you , sweetheart , she railed , and , her pride once more up in arms , a certainty in her head that she had seen the last of Ven for that night , she rocketed from her bed , took a shower , and got dressed . |
| 5 | The recent spell of warm weather was holding and Julie Murchison was feeling good in spite of the fact that she had spent the last hour in her Mother 's sick room . |
| 6 | A woman told how she had spent the last fifteen years of her life ‘ allowing my husband to make choices for me ’ . |
| 7 | She had spent the last ten days in bed , suffering from shock , the after-reaction fierce , frightening . |
| 8 | Only when she was halfway there did she remember that this , after all , was n't Chipchester , where she had spent the last six months at college — nor even Athens , where at least the drivers and pedestrians expected to engage in constant warfare — and that perhaps she should have checked the traffic before crossing … |
| 9 | She had spent the last six months learning to help many such at St Sylvester 's . |
| 10 | Co-director Deborah Coles recounted how she had spent the last 3 days attending the inquest on a man known to be at risk , who committed suicide in prison . |
| 11 | By the time she had rolled the last lump of dog food into the canal , the sun was beginning to rise in the east . |
| 12 | After she had scattered the last few blooms , she went and gave the girl a five pound note , Ulster Bank pounds , not punts . |
| 13 | We had reached the last door . |
| 14 | We had passed the last of the houses and were driving in grey early-morning light through a landscape of scorched earth , blackened trees . |
| 15 | They had waltzed the last waltz together , now the evening was over . |
| 16 | During those early months , Kit Everard tried every evening to retire to his new quarters at Belmont and go to sleep ; he read the Bible , by the light of an oil lamp floating in a coconut shell , for they had used the last of their candles . |
| 17 | On the credit side ( if that was the word for it ) , they had discharged the last of the luckless Beador 's debts . |
| 18 | In prehistoric times , if people made the horse feel anxious or afraid it would run like mad until it had seen the last of them : it fled from the problem , which reduced his fear and anxiety . |
| 19 | It had taken the last half-hour to muster the courage to mention the subject yet again . |
| 20 | She had let Paul name the boys ; with rare magnanimity , he had called the last one after her father . |
| 21 | He was frightened that hostile readers of his theological work would be able to say that his religion could be ‘ explained ’ in terms of the Oedipus complex ( or perhaps the Hippolytus complex ) ; and that he was only able to find peace for his heart by coming to terms with a Heavenly Father of his own projection when he had seen the last of his earthly father in Belfast . |
| 22 | Mansell hoped he had seen the last of the Brazilian after the two were involved in a high-speed collision during the final Grand Prix of the season in Australia . |
| 23 | She sat down on her suitcases and howled , feeling that he had swept the last traces of her personality out in the dustpan too . |
| 24 | There is a story that when he had dictated the last sentence of his monumental Summa Theologiae , he laid his head in his hands sadly . |
| 25 | The dream grew faster and faster and more and more desperate , because he knew that he had to reach the last box before the end of the day . |
| 26 | On his return in mid-December all his colleagues had felt encouraged by the Prime Minister 's buoyancy ; he had conducted the last debates with all his old skill and command of the House . |
| 27 | It was Li Yuan 's horse ; the horse he had ridden the last time he had come . |
| 28 | Willie was so exhausted from the day 's labours that he did n't know whether he had dreamt the last remark or not . |
| 29 | He had performed the last rites earlier , when Patrick was at least half aware , and perhaps even knew what was happening and assented to it . |
| 30 | When , at last , some nasty little spots began to appear , and he had spent the last night of the year sitting up in bed and holding his pyjama jacket away from his afflictions , Joan put her foot down . |