Example sentences of "had [verb] [prep] the last [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Louis XIV had seen in the last days of his reign the growing pointlessness of the traditional Franco-Austrian antagonism , but his efforts to achieve some agreement with the Habsburgs were not followed up by his successors . |
| 2 | Of course it had belonged among those unhappy mad thoughts which she had had in the last days . |
| 3 | Still an inefficient and partly feudal force at the end of the seventeenth century , it had become by the last years of Peter I one of the most powerful in Europe . |
| 4 | In the silence of his shelter he was finally letting the true sorrow he felt for all that had happened in the last months come into him , and he was beginning to grieve . |
| 5 | The 66-year-old President , an agricultural economist by training , was generally regarded as a more approachable and pragmatic politician than his predecessor , and therefore better equipped to manage the process of political liberalization which had begun in the last months of Chiang 's presidency . |
| 6 | The local press , which had flourished during the last years of colonial rule , had been allowed to die . |