Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [pron] the last " 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 | What had the vacillating vamp said to her the last time they were together ? |
3 | Who had seen enacted before him the last skirmish in the war which had now given him his own longed-for kingdom of Cyprus . |
4 | THE death of the Dowager Duchess of Rutland has taken from us the last and most loved of our nieces ( for niece she was , although older than the present writers by five and ten years ) . |
5 | 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 . |