Example sentences of "had [verb] [pron] last [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly his terse telephone technique had annoyed me last night , but not enough to make me want to spit at the sight of him . |
| 2 | The government announced on Aug. 12 the discontinuation of all uranium extraction and the closure of processing plants , angering uranium miners , who had received their last pay packets in April . |
| 3 | She had told Anne on Saturday that she had received her last letter before the leave . |
| 4 | She felt as if she had given her last performance . |
| 5 | It was a long way from the back streets of big cities and the criminal set , and even further from the grim-faced soldiers who had guarded her last assignment . |
| 6 | There was a feeling that Mill House might just be coming out of the doldrums : he had won his last race , beating his solitary rival at Sandown Park for the princely sum of £426 , and appeared to be coming back to his old self . |
| 7 | Harvey said how much he had enjoyed his last visit to Riga , and how sorry he was that he would n't be going there , and the man at the other end said that Leningrad was one of the most wonderful towns in the world . |
| 8 | I said , well , I said , I 'm , I 'm someone had seen me last week . |
| 9 | The men were going to be surprised , of course , because she had said her last goodbye on Friday . |
| 10 | When I spoke to his assistant she told he had said his last word on the subject and did not want to hear of it again . |
| 11 | By 1939 she had made her last film . |
| 12 | ‘ When I rang up Decin late in the evening and heard that the picture had made its last journey back home in the company of highly explosive gas containers , I said a silent prayer and sang halleluia three times ’ , said the dowager Fürstin Zita von Thun-Hohenstein . |
| 13 | He wanted to settle , once and for all , the question of whether Riddle had made his last journey inside the Wheel and for that reason he was resolved to have it closely examined by an expert . |
| 14 | Victor Frankenstein died a few hours after he had written his last word . |
| 15 | We had disturbed their last feed of the day . |
| 16 | Tommaso described , rapidly , one of the many round stone shelters scattered in the olive groves outside the town , on the road which led to the sea from the farm where he had visited them last Easter . |
| 17 | I had visited it last year out of curiosity . |
| 18 | He was using the cordless phone she and David had bought him last Christmas . |
| 19 | Only a year earlier he had performed his last hat-trick . |
| 20 | As Vass had told her last night , the damage was n't too bad . |
| 21 | This , Gaston had told her last night , was a local custom which indicated the popularity of the bride in the community . |
| 22 | For a couple marrying in 1860 , the wife was 40 before she had had her last child , while in 1930 , the corresponding stage would have been reached before the wife was 30 . |
| 23 | But look where that had got him last time . |
| 24 | Being used — as Luke had used her last night — was humiliating , and even though she had been able to turn the tables it had left a bitter after-taste . |
| 25 | Duvall had used his last shell on the thing downstairs without realising . |
| 26 | The dinghy had floated right down to him and he had used his last reserves of energy to clamber into it . |
| 27 | She had pressed the pinafored lady for confirmation that she had understood her last question , but the answer had still come back ‘ one week ’ . |
| 28 | Had to phone them last night . |
| 29 | Cameron and Parkes ( 1983 ) cite , by way of example , the death of a woman who had spent her last weekend at home with her husband discussing plans for the future while sitting in the sun to regain her strength . |
| 30 | She had spent her last sixpence on the tea . |