Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] for the last [noun] " in BNC.

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1 They were watching the camp pack away for the last time before it moved on without them .
2 Try explaining it to Ashley as he sits in the back of the minibus watching the streets of Salzburg slip by for the last time as — filming finished — we begin the journey back home .
3 Sterland came on for the last half-hour of this week 's 3-0 reserve team win over Manchester City at Maine Road , and yesterday declared : ‘ It went brilliantly .
4 I shall do so for the last time .
5 So we came about for the last time , since we were now south of the entrance , and motorsailed north , a little further off , to give the rock a good clearance .
6 The conflict is played out for the last time in The Red Shoes ( 1948 ) , where the ballerina played by Moira Shearer initially lives unproblematically for her dancing , until she falls in love with a composer .
7 She remembered also , the hand of one of the drowning men , rising up out of the torrent and clutching , clutching at empty air before being dragged under for the last time .
8 And soon we shall all meet again for the last time .
9 But with the base set to close , the planes have flown out for the last time .
10 His father had been ‘ under the weather , since July , and Lewis was half-aware that he might be coming home for the last time .
11 As the crews tied up for the last time in Southampton , watched , and waited for by families and friends they had n't seen for eight months , many of them agreed getting back to a routine , going back to work , might by tough .
12 I 've been doing well for the last week , but I took this heavy cold , well from Thursday , since I 've took this heavy cold I 've hardly smoked .
13 Andy Norman , who 's a sort of Sam Goldwyn of our athletics , spotted this key to his character years ago during a wait at Helsinki airport where Christie was hanging around for the last plane on a ticket about one grade up from cargo .
14 So Frances and Mrs Malloy — four grown-up children and seven grandchildren — danced together for the last couple of hours .
15 Marr watches ‘ Ouija Board ’ go down for the last time
16 Mark crossed the imposing entrance hall and went out for the last time .
17 I went on further , and their lightness and gleam had gone when I looked back for the last time .
18 Anyway , we met up , and we never did get back for the last act .
19 Thus , for example , in reference resolution , if the first complete set of resolutions of the anaphors in a QLF is deemed implausible , other possible referents will be tried exhaustively for the last anaphor to be processed before any other changes are considered ; and the second QLF , if any , will not be considered at all unless no plausible set of resolutions can be derived for the first .
20 AN ERA ends today when the shutters come down for the last time at the Owen Owen store in Liverpool .
21 It did not seem so cute after a massive explosion ripped apart the pilot plant ( ironically as it was being shut down for the last time ) and killed two of Dequasie 's colleagues .
22 There have been those burrowing away for the last year seeking a more sinister reasons .
23 The last date was significant ; it was the Monday following the Sunday on which Inez left home for the last time .
24 The Queen , the unit 's colonel-in-chief , stood watching a final march past by as the corps band struck up for the last time .
25 On 1st April 1989 , annual domestic rate bills were sent out for the last time .
26 And I do , and I do , I must say not for the last time during the passage of this Bill , I do feel constrain to offer my very deep sympathy to my Noble Friend on the front bench .
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