Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [pron] the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | The tariff policy therefore carried with it the last hope of consolidating the Empire and the last hope of reversing the drift into class politics ; as a pessimist , Law saw further ahead than most of his contemporaries , and events proved him to be more nearly right than they were . |
2 | Resigned to whatever the next game would be , she followed him , fighting her instinctive trust of the man whose face she had n't yet seen . |
3 | What had the vacillating vamp said to her the last time they were together ? |
4 | Certainly I always tried to remember the shocking effect which the sight of so many old prisoners , some of them bearded , all of them strangely dressed , had had on me the first time I arrived in a main camp . |
5 | Who had seen enacted before him the last skirmish in the war which had now given him his own longed-for kingdom of Cyprus . |
6 | Remembering what had happened to me the last time I entered this unhappy house , remembering too that I was an escaped jailbird , whom most of the Frankenstein menage would not hesitate to give back into custody , I decided that the wisest course was to keep the place under observation and wait until I could be sure to speak to Victor . |
7 | If I was left to it the first pint would go about |
8 | Her heart had been lost to him the first moment she had set eyes on him . |