Example sentences of "had [be] [vb pp] [prep] last " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yesterday 's mass picket had been fuelled by last week 's decision at the Court of Session to allow meetings at the gates , and by the wave of support for the sacked workers at a rally in Dundee on Saturday . |
| 2 | The long-awaited supercomputer had been promised for last year , but the target date was later pushed back to October 1993 . |
| 3 | The jars had been recycled at last ; Caro 's tomatoes had ripened all at once , last September , and she and Bryony had filled sixteen jars with chutney . |
| 4 | By 1987 the numbers were so huge that the ability of the West to take in all comers was strained No force had been used in last week 's operation , he insisted . |
| 5 | The show , which cost the band $100,000 , had been postponed from last May after objections from Seattle 's city council . |