Example sentences of "the last day " in BNC.

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1 On the last day of that term , my final-year class all came up to my office to give me a ‘ thank-you ’ present .
2 But on the Last Day certainly God will call the drunkards of the world to Him : .
3 YESTERDAY was the last day for comments from the public on a paper issued in January entitled : ‘ Comparability of Financial Statements ’ published by the International Accounting Standards Committee .
4 Brussels : Prices tumbled on the last day of the forward account Oslo : Caution ahead of the 1990 budget clipped 3.83 points off the index to 527.08 .
5 Open 9.30am-7.30 pm , except on the last day , when the show closes at 5pm .
6 On the last day of 1921 the Party Central Committee appointed Feliks Dzerzhinsky , the head of the Cheka and Commissar for Transport , to the commission for the dispatch of food supplies and grain seed from Siberia and the Ukraine .
7 ‘ I could not help recalling , ’ Sir Maurice Hankey , the Cabinet Secretary , wrote in his diary in September , ‘ that on the last day of Parliament Mr. Baldwin had walked across the yard outside [ the House of Commons ] and had said ‘ I will do everything I can to help the Government in making economies , but I will not enter a Coalition Government . '
8 30 June 1989 found most of the battalion not on guard in bearskins and tunics , but enjoying the last day of a fortnight 's shooting on the ranges at Salisbury Plain , on ISAAC .
9 Tony Visconti : ‘ When it was finished , on the last day of the last mix , I remember telling David , ‘ I 've had it .
10 They had six hours twenty minutes to survive , but the first hour of the last day saw five wickets crash for 78 .
11 It was Willey , supported by Emburey , who kept it at bay , the final score being 391 for 7 ; admittedly , Roberts had hardly been able to bowl on the last day , but the home team had shown themselves that they could bat a bit if they tried .
12 They were lucky to lose almost three hours to rain , but Gower was still there at the end of the last day , having batted seven and three-quarter hours for 154 not out .
13 But the last day belonged to Gooch and Gower , with Gatting also fighting well ; Gooch finished with 146 and Gower 88 not out , greatly helped by Marshall having to go off injured .
14 As she was saying good-bye to him on the last day , she knew that they would n't see each other again for a long time .
15 Suppose you knew that this was going to be the last day of your life .
16 ‘ If you do n't know what you 'd choose to do on the last day of your life , you do n't know what 's really important to you .
17 Not for the last day of my life .
18 ‘ If you 're so sure , what would you do on the last day of your life ? ’
19 ‘ I can tell you what I 'd do on the last day of my life , ’ he said .
20 ‘ So — is this going to be the last day of my life ? ’
21 It will be the last day of someone 's life , but not yours , I think . ’
22 No one really wants to know about him , and he knows why he agreed to do the film , why on the last day of shooting he dismissed it as a ‘ stinker ’ , what he thinks of it now .
23 At the Conservative Party Conference in Brighton in 1988 we had a little fun on the last day , just before the Prime Minister 's speech .
24 On the last day of the 1988 American presidential election Dukakis went on a whirlwind tour that must have been dreamed up by a desperate team .
25 Kylie 's tucked up in the back seat , her mum 's alongside , and she 's ready to complete the last day 's shooting on the £10 million film The Delinquents .
26 ‘ You have done well , Wilson , ’ she said on the last day in Siena .
27 The last day was always the most difficult .
28 But the last day was wrecked by fierce , gusting winds , and Venturi limped round in 80 , while Jack Burke , a veteran pro , made up eight shots with a 71 to win .
29 On the last day of term , I had met up with my son 's headmaster .
30 THE danger of trying to limp to safety on goalless draws was graphically illustrated by Coventry 's last-gasp defeat which could have them hanging on to the last day of the season before knowing their fate .
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