Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] for the last time " in BNC.

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1 After putting up the tent , I sat outside , took the bandage off my shin for the last time , and undressed , before washing myself with a mug of water .
2 I could n't wait for the bell to ring at four in the afternoon when class would end and I could bang my lid for the last time before running all the way down the Whitechapel Road to help out on the barrow .
3 The almost wordless scene in which Ma Joad , packing her belongings for the last time , comes across a pair of old earrings and tries them on , recalling some long forgotten happiness , is as touching as anything he ever directed .
4 It would have been a particular thrill to have met the man who could pen such material , she mused as she closed the lid on her suitcase for the last time on Tuesday morning , but she knew that that was out of the question .
5 It was an astonishing performance in a first-rate production , and it led directly to her casting as Kitty MacVurrich in The Long Roads , McGrath 's TV film about a cancer-stricken Skye woman and her husband , visiting their children for the last time .
6 The manufacture of pins continued at Frogmarsh until 4 May 1934 , when the company closed its doors for the last time .
7 The Frank Cooper Marmalade Shop , which forever linked the name Oxford with marmalade , is closing its doors for the last time .
8 A hospital for pensioners that opened almost a hundred years ago is about to close its doors for the last time .
9 Eleven people will lose their jobs when the slaughter house closes its doors for the last time on November 26 .
10 But today it closes its doors for the last time .
11 How one charity helps another The Goodwill charity shop in Court Arcade , Darlington , closed its doors for the last time on Tuesday after four years of fund-raising for a children 's village in India .
12 EMPLOYEES of Courtaulds Fibres , Canada , gathered for a Christmas party in December , just weeks after the viscose rayon plant closed its doors for the last time .
13 This year , as the locos dropped their fires for the last time , the cash bag totalled more than £1243.72 .
14 28th August 1930 was a sad day , as the islanders closed their doors for the last time .
15 Then he shook his feet free of the stirrups and , lifting his horse for the last time , sent it rearing into the enemy mass to crash and sink amongst them .
16 Just before he was due to pack his case , tidy the papers on his desk for the last time , and go home , Spittals was surprised to receive a call from the commander of the Squad , who asked the chief superintendent to call in before he went home .
17 It is probably fanciful to cast Mrs Moore as Phaedra , or the P'daytabird as Theseus , but now Lewis was crossing the sea to see his father for the last time .
18 Eight days ago we heard his voice for the last time .
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