Example sentences of "had [verb] [art] last [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And as a mark of their respect for their aviator comrade , a lone bugler played The Last Post and Reveille before an RAF Hercules flew over the graveside at Frankby Cemetery in a special salute to the man who had given the last six years of his life to his country . |
| 2 | He had added the last three words with the same morose carelessness with which he had decried the car dealers ' convention , but he offered no elucidation as to what the words meant . |
| 3 | Mr. Duggan said that he had enjoyed the last four years . |
| 4 | I had enjoyed the last two months greatly but the journey , though arduous , had involved no real danger . |
| 5 | After she had scattered the last few blooms , she went and gave the girl a five pound note , Ulster Bank pounds , not punts . |
| 6 | But anyone who could understand English and had watched the last Liberal broadcast , an exercise in pure Paddiography , would know perfectly well how she could say that . |
| 7 | She was not afraid of the dark , because when she was very little Maggie had had the last few scales of Fenna 's tail to suck on while she fell asleep . |
| 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 | But there was no room there and the 22-year-old had spent the last six days in Middlesbrough police station . |
| 11 | A woman told how she had spent the last fifteen years of her life ‘ allowing my husband to make choices for me ’ . |
| 12 | Colette had spent the last fifteen years taming Bernard . |
| 13 | It was as if Dominic had spent the last two months play-acting and tonight had decided to drop the façade — totally , with no mercy . |
| 14 | A substitute had been required , therefore , in haste — and Daniel , who had never reached France or Italy after all but had spent the last two years at the London office of the Chartist Northern Star , had seemed as good a choice as any . |
| 15 | Best had spent the last two weeks preaching that Bangor could score in Nicosia . |
| 16 | She had spent the last ten days in bed , suffering from shock , the after-reaction fierce , frightening . |
| 17 | He had spent the last twenty years attending the Party conference , four days of gin and oratory . |
| 18 | Duroc had spent the last three months in France , dealing with the business of the Violent Tendency for Freedom . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The conference , the first of its kind openly held in Iraq , brought together all major opposition parties including several based in Iran , Saudi Arabia and Syria which had boycotted the last major opposition conference held in Vienna in June [ see p. 38985 ] . |
| 21 | At a rally attended by hundreds of Labour supporters from the arts , showbusiness and sport , he said that a Labour government would be in stark contrast to the ‘ vanity and self-interest ’ which had characterised the last 13 years . |
| 22 | He pledged Labour in power would willingly listen to the voice of the people , in stark contrast to the ‘ vanity and self-interest ’ which had characterised the last 13 years of Conservative rule . |
| 23 | Gould had struck the last ornithological goldmine . |
| 24 | Stirring it around herself , she looked down at her long body , noticing how her illness had removed the last spare flesh . |
| 25 | Tammuz Malamute had stepped off the shuttle port outside Arcady and had delivered the last fateful message to his a.i . |
| 26 | That is why I had to spend the last half an hour intervening and telephoning both Departments to try to deal with the problem . |
| 27 | The company had insisted the last 88 job cuts in a 2,200 redundancy programme had to be found before yesterday 's deadline . |