Example sentences of "one last time " in BNC.
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| 1 | To clear the mind , he wrote ( and Goldberg typed ) , to reach the peak , one last effort for one last time , one supreme effort , total concentration , and then the end . |
| 2 | My dogs were frantic , and so was I , I hauled one last time , the line came back two centimetres , the hook came free and the dogs roared away . |
| 3 | They embraced one last time and then he was off , rushing to Ferdinando to help him carry down what he claimed were his ‘ very most precious ’ things . |
| 4 | It was an odd feeling and perhaps accounts for why I delayed my departure so long , wandering around the house many times over , checking one last time that all was in order . |
| 5 | There seems a note of valediction in the loving intensity of his description , a desire to record for one last time the scenes which , for more than a year , had so filled his mind and shaped his thoughts : |
| 6 | But I feel it incumbent upon me ( I have been listening to chairmen 's speeches ) to bring up the subject for one last time because of a letter from a reader in Nigeria . |
| 7 | After that I avoided looking down towards the woodpile until , when it was almost too dark to see , I glanced down one last time — and she was gone . |
| 8 | Eugene Forster paused , raised one of his bushy eyebrows , then slowly and deliberately , with the wisdom of previous experience , finished the whisky , drew one last time on the cigar then plunged it with a hiss into the water , before he took the ‘ phone . |
| 9 | The jumpster checked with the pilot one last time on the inter-com , then pressed the red button that operated the hydraulic system . |
| 10 | Before we go our separate ways , Bernard opens up his case and pulls out his Les Paul for one last time today . |
| 11 | I really want to go out and kick some ass one last time for Jeffrey , for me , for us , and most importantly for the people who come to see us . ’ |
| 12 | Big Mal ready to aim for stars one last time |
| 13 | He looked one last time at the car , as it was winched onto the trailer . |
| 14 | As he is dragged away by men in white coats to the Gerry Marsden Home For The Incurably Sad And Pathetic , sexy Simes appeals one last time to the kids — ‘ Do you lot think a rock 'n' roll band can ever change anything ? ’ |
| 15 | Estlin now withdrew from the BFASS , demonstrating for one last time his use as a barometer of sentiment in intra-reform relations . |
| 16 | Taking the plate gently from him she placed it in the sink , then checked the turkey one last time , turned the gas down as low as it would go and made her way up to bed . |
| 17 | Only a couple of months ago some inside the Federal Reserve thought it might loosen monetary policy this summer one last time . |
| 18 | In 1969 he went back , one last time as he thought , to play James Bond in Diamonds are Forever . |
| 19 | She looked at them one last time . |
| 20 | ‘ Let's have one Last Time in peace and quiet ! ’ |
| 21 | I asked his birthday one last time ; |
| 22 | One last time . |
| 23 | His eyes swivelled crazily about one last time before settling back into place . |
| 24 | " Take him at least a hundred meters into the jungle , " he yelled as he swung the cane across their shoulders one last time to urge them in among the trees . |
| 25 | He looked up one last time at the grey edifice , licking dry lips . |
| 26 | If only he could have spoken to her one last time before he 'd been taken down . |
| 27 | He thrust his helmet back through the gap one last time . |
| 28 | I tried the church door one last time in the vain hope that I had mistakenly found it closed , but closed it remained . |
| 29 | 121 yachts had their rigging and sails checked one last time and then crews pottered about anxiously , generating an atmosphere of nervousness so pervasive that even the spectators felt tense . |
| 30 | Just before the Shah had left Iran , Admiral Habib Olahi and other commanders had gone to him one last time and asked his permission to undertake a coup . |