Example sentences of "[adv] had the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | McNamara already had the first spot in the bag and Moniz was out , so the battle was on for second place . |
| 2 | No sooner had the last votes been cast than the IRA — fellow republicans — added to those problems . |
| 3 | Quite apart from its technical ingenuity , its wily thematic evolutions and transformations , I love its eccentricity : only Bernstein could have ‘ tuned in ’ to Plato 's timeless dinner party and still had the last laugh . |
| 4 | ROBIN Smith , Hampshire 's defiant middle-order maestro , yesterday had the last word in his summer-long bitter duel with Waqar Younis . |
| 5 | The Scouse always had the last word . |
| 6 | The trouble was , neither of us had been here before and Holyhead Mountain in the gathering gloom emphatically had the last laugh . |
| 7 | Comrades however had the last say when Dean Gordon grabbed a consolation goal for them on the stroke of full time . |
| 8 | And hundreds of steam fans who see diesels as the soulless railways ogre of the modern age certainly had the last chuckle at Holyhead . |