Example sentences of "thought the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , we know from Yeats 's letters even more than his poems that he thought the last possibility for aristocratic ease in the arts had disappeared when Robert Gregory was shot down over France in 1915 . |
| 2 | Hindenburg certainly thought the last , for he later wrote : ‘ … they were no longer seeking victory , but destruction . ’ |
| 3 | I thought the last vicar was a bit dopey , but this one 's a sight worse . |
| 4 | ‘ Forgive me , Marshal , but I thought the last two places were to be filled by working scientists . ’ |
| 5 | After a buffet rijstafel of gargantuan proportions-thirty dishes concluded with a chewy sweet much beloved of the malais which resembled nothing so much as toenail pie — the Colonel served Tia Maria which he and his wife thought the last word in cosmopolitan sophistication . |
| 6 | I thought the last war would dae fir us all , but it didnae . ’ |
| 7 | I thought the last thing you wanted was to have to spend more time than necessary in my company … seeing as you dislike me so much ? ’ |