Example sentences of "[verb] [noun prp] for the last time " in BNC.
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| 1 | They returned in April , and in June visited Leeds for the last time . |
| 2 | Ten years now he had lived in Vienna , fourteen since he had quit Russia for the last time , twenty-two since the day he had realized his boyhood ambition to become an officer in the St. Petersburg Grenadiers . |
| 3 | Later , after she had visited Joy for the last time and he had filled her arms with fruit , as he had on every visit , she made her way to the cemetery . |
| 4 | A few days later Keith Meerza sees Christopher for the last time . |
| 5 | After a series of celebrations , it will leave Middlesbrough for the last time next Tuesday and head for Portsmouth to be de-commissioned . |
| 6 | For another , the ‘ war party ’ may already have taken over within the Vietminh : at least when Sainteny , attempting his last act of mediation , saw Ho for the last time before the war started , he complained about the moderate elements who had been eliminated from the government to the benefit of the notorious Francophobes ; and as the war was on the point of beginning , and as attacks on French soldiers and civilians had not ceased , nor had French retaliation , Sainteny 's exasperation was to be seen in his demand that culprits should be punished within 24 hours . |
| 7 | When the immediate formalities were over , he left Algeria for the last time , and flew back to Paris , where he shut himself away in the house at St-Cloud , seeing no one . |
| 8 | I suggested a little time ago that the surface indications offered both by Joyce 's life and by his writing up to including The Portrait — he does leave Ireland to live with his Nora in Triest , in Switzerland , in France , in Switzerland again , until his death in nineteen forty one , visiting Dublin for the last time in nineteen hundred and twelve — he does give us in Dubliners and The Portrait a sharp sense of the traps he feels he must escape from , the church tentacular , pervasive , the seedy provincialism , the narrowness , the philistine complacency . |