Example sentences of "the last time " in BNC.
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1 | The break-up of the old world was seen as a sign of the last times . |
2 | ‘ One of the last times I saw my mother , I was borrowing money off her . |
3 | This period — which we shall have occasion to discuss in more detail later — was known , for those living in it , as ‘ the Last Times ’ , or ‘ the Last Days ’ . |
4 | For our purposes , one of the most important characteristics of the Essenes was their apocalyptic vision — their insistence that the Last Times were at hand and that the advent of the Messiah was imminent . |
5 | ‘ — well anyway , I remembered the last time she was here this Mrs Heatherington-Scott made a set at Sir Harry Destry , like Thomas said , and — well , we all know what happened that time , do n't we ? |
6 | That was the last time we spoke . |
7 | As I walked down the front steps for the last time , a feeling of elation swept over me . |
8 | Home , alone , Jay played through the last time Dionne had come over . |
9 | The last time they 'd made love , or would , probably . |
10 | And now that Donald 's name was on the militia list , the thought of being parted obsessed them and they made love as though each time was the last time . |
11 | He remembered seeing his father 's face for the last time ; the coffin being lowered into its final resting place — and the hateful wake which followed . |
12 | I could see myself on the roof of our house , as , for the last time , I spread the couscous out to dry on a sheet in the sun before my journey to London : I could see the village below me : the tops of the trees , the minaret , the ancient wall which ran round my village . |
13 | The girl who has reached the human being in Raskolnikov the murderer is left for the last time by Svidrigailov ‘ bewildered and frightened , and filled with vague and oppressive suspicions ’ . |
14 | The last time I met AMP was over two years ago . ’ |
15 | The last time Hambros was so well placed was in 1986 when it advised on another mega-bid , by Hanson for Imperial Group . |
16 | The last time the Maronites promised reforms — when the multi-national force was in Beirut — Christian units of the Lebanese army arrested hundreds of Muslim Lebanese and the reforms never materialised . |
17 | The last time she played in this competition she suffered a disastrous defeat and is keen to make amends . |
18 | The last time he was at the Phoenix , in Simon Gray 's The Common Pursuit , John Sessions was lost in a soggy , unsympathetic part , while co-stars like Rik Mayall and Stephen Fry hogged all the limelight ; he seemed a non-entity . |
19 | The rate of failures has been declining through the 1980s and the last time it was running at these levels was 1984 , when 3,924 businesses failed . |
20 | The last time base rates hit 15 per cent was in 1981 but , as Mr Tora points out , ‘ in real terms this is the highest the base rate has ever been . |
21 | They might have mislaid the formula for operating over five days — December 1986 is the last time England beat anyone of any consequence when asked to bat and bowl for longer than 55 overs — but there is no getting away from their ability to play the negative stuff as well as anyone else . |
22 | London 's venerable red and cream double-deckers rumbled along the Thames embankment for the last time in 1952 . |
23 | They had fallen behind when Simon Tracey , not for the last time , missed a corner and right-back Colin Hill poked Shane Westley 's header into his own net . |
24 | ‘ The last time I played there , for Nantes , there was very little atmosphere , and on Wednesday the Scots fans will be right behind us . |
25 | The last time that automatic budget cuts , mandated by the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings deficit-cutting law , took effect was in October 1987 . |
26 | For the last year of his life he suffered from myeloma , a form of bone cancer , and entered hospital for the last time in July where he made friends with another patient who , unfortunately , soon died . |
27 | The last time we met he was singing the number at a Friars ' Club gala in New York and , for all the lofty intellectual disdain one feels obliged to muster at tuxedo circuit events , it was undeniably impressive to see him afterwards , the only British subject in the room , surrounded by Lauren Bacall , Lena Horne and Gwen Verdon . |
28 | ‘ The last time I 'd seen Nelson was in the courtroom in 1964 , ’ Mrs Sisulu said . |
29 | The England manager is a slave to slip catching practice , difficult though it is to recall the last time one of his bowlers located an outside edge . |
30 | Neither jet-lag nor anything going wrong has been evident at the tourists ' training , which has been comfortably the most impressive seen in Cardiff since … well , since the last time the All Blacks were there in 1980 . |