Example sentences of "[prep] the last days " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many a godly Jew must have felt what a wonderful thing it would be if Moses ' longing could be fulfilled , ‘ Would that all the Lord 's people were prophets , that the Lord would put his Spirit upon them ’ ( Num. 11:29 ) : and that is just what the prophets were led by God to foretell for the last days . |
| 2 | Such was the hope for the last days , and this was the hope that the Christians had seen fulfilled since the resurrection and ascension of Jesus . |
| 3 | No , the point they both make is that Jesus was equipped for his messianic mission by the Spirit promised for the last days ; that this Spirit was not available to others in the days of his flesh ; and that after his death and resurrection the last days were extended , so to speak , by the followers of Jesus inheriting his mission , his authority and his Spirit . |
| 4 | I certainly feel it was a great delight to him during the last days of his life . ’ |
| 5 | If he did not go quite so far as Eric Linklater in believing that what Mary was doing down at Kirk o' Field during the last days of Darnley 's life in February 1567 was indulging a ‘ womanly zeal for nursing ’ , he certainly had no doubt of her innocence . |
| 6 | During the last days of May 1967 the United States reached an understanding with Israel , clearing the way for the latter 's attack on Egypt on 5 June 1967 . |
| 7 | I certainly feel it was a great delight to him during the last days of his life . ’ |
| 8 | After operations against the Caroline Islands in June 1945 , 1771 's Mk 1s were involved in strikes on the Japanese mainland during the last days of the war — hence the map . |
| 9 | When , not long before his execution , he passed comment on the mass-murder of the Nazi camps , it was only to point out that there were problems in supply and control during the last days of the Third Reich . |
| 10 | William , Lord Herbert , showed a similar anxiety during the last days of his father , the second Earl of Pembroke , in 1601 . |
| 11 | During the last days of Knight 's governorship there was a significant change within the central management of the AFPFL . |
| 12 | Although this is partly a result of lower market share during the last days of The Sunday Correspondent , the IoS has made ground while its rival The Observer has not . |
| 13 | He sailed for Algiers in March 1943 and during the last days of the Tunisian campaign he saw a mere fortnight 's active service . |
| 14 | However , the appointment was made unilaterally by the USA , which during the last days of the Noriega regime had rejected a Panamanian proposal to appoint Tomás Altamirano Duque . |
| 15 | The remains of the king and his father had been removed on Aug. 16 from Burg Hohenzollern at Hechingen , near Stuttgart , where they had been placed in 1952 — having been recovered from Nazi hands during the last days of the Second World War . |
| 16 | It was his decision , for example , to shift a military pay day to 29 September , one of the last days of fiscal 1989 , from 1 October , the beginning of fiscal 1990 . |
| 17 | I 'm worn out with all the go of the last days , ’ Rose said . |
| 18 | The great danger of the last days of the campaign is that those voters who wish to punish the Tories , but do not want Labour , may not understand the situation . |
| 19 | Imro concluded that it was ‘ not good enough ’ — monitoring was applied over-literally , higher-risk members were less easy to identify , and the response to the crises of the last days was not adequate . |
| 20 | Mark has arranged the events of the last days of Jesus into a one-week period . |
| 21 | The stories of the Last Days , when the Summoner would open up the Dark Reaches of the Spirit Lands and call down the worst of the manitous to lay waste the worlds of the white man and the red . |
| 22 | This happened on the film set of The Last Days of Dolwyn — Burton 's celluloid debut in a part written especially for him . |
| 23 | And there is Gregory 's account of Guntram warning Childebert over the behaviour of Egidius , which is placed immediately before his description of the last days of Gundovald . |
| 24 | Parliament was dissolved on March 16 , with the last days of business occupied almost exclusively with the Finance Bill which incorporated the fiscal measures announced in the budget . |
| 25 | She came to England to stay with a sister , went to acting school in London and through a teacher who knew how to persuade Emlyn Williams , was all but smuggled into The Last Days of Dolwyn as the sixth girl extra ‘ when only five had been budgeted for . |
| 26 | If he reasonably does not discover his right until a short time before the last days of the three months have elapsed , then obviously it would probably not be reasonably practicable to give notice in time . |
| 27 | ‘ He came into the office right until the last days of his illness . |
| 28 | Although Ceauşescu continued to receive a daily deluge of congratulatory telegrams from tinpot rulers the world over until the last days of his rule , the reprinting of old praise from the Queen shows how desperate he was to present his people with evidence that he was acceptable to the West . |
| 29 | Again Ali Cemali was the first muderris , and the stipulation appears usually to have been observed ( though in later years by delegation ) until the last days of the empire . |
| 30 | The ice disappeared from the Volga in the last days of April , when steamers , tugs , and barges converged at Tsaritsyn on the warmer Lower Volga to transport supplies up the river and its tributaries . |