Example sentences of "[adv] the last thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh , yes , but they 're going on that 's to sake of free , at the moment so the last thing that they 're interested in doing is talking to me about if I know what I 'm doing . |
| 2 | so the last thing they want is extra children to come in . |
| 3 | Because very often you , a father can be very keen on gardening and getting the children to help him is just the last thing . |
| 4 | Somehow the last thing she wanted was concrete proof of Luke 's betrayal , and yet here she was , actively searching for it . |
| 5 | He will be aware that there is still a problem in my constituency and the south-west with the burden of the business rate , but is not the last thing that small businesses want the layers of bureaucracy that would result from 10 new regional assemblies , new sex and race discrimination legislation and the hundreds of new quangos that Labour would put into practice in its first year of office ? |
| 6 | With the dress ordered , church and reception booked , invitations sent and wedding lists prepared probably the last thing on your mind is YOU ! |
| 7 | He slowly imagines the character , moulds her into shape , and then — probably the last thing of all — pops a pair of glass eyes into those empty sockets . |
| 8 | Almost everything about the French mood in 1945 suggests that unqualified independence was just about the last thing that anyone envisaged for any part of the French colonial empire . |
| 9 | Just about the last thing she wanted to see a noisy film all about Rock ‘ n Roll . |
| 10 | Now the last thing says labels code four , you 'll remember from the monthly card , I have these eight days where I was going to do the labels . |
| 11 | I knew what he was getting at , of course , and I was so hurt that he should think he had to approach me in such a roundabout fashion — as if I was a terrible , uncharitable woman who had to be coaxed into a simple act of kindness — that I suggested it myself at once , though it was really the last thing I wanted . |
| 12 | It 's astonishing , but it 's often the last thing couples discuss when they get married ’ , says Jane Hawksley , a counsellor for Relate in Birmingham . |
| 13 | The words are often the last thing that , or sometimes the last thing that people actually write . |
| 14 | Oh well the last thing anyone wants to do when they 're going on a retirement course is to talk about dying . |
| 15 | Here the last thing you expect to see is one of the most exquisite small houses in the land ; yet here , glimpsed down a short straight avenue of completely inappropriate young cherry trees , is Lodge Park . |
| 16 | The words are often the last thing that , or sometimes the last thing that people actually write . |
| 17 | If the teacher criticised or even hit you then the last thing to do was complain at home because the certainty was you would be criticised or hit again . |
| 18 | I 'd done nearly all me time in Styal , you know , and then the last thing they sent us out . |
| 19 | And years ago I used to have sciatica , round the nerve and but it 's only happens when I sit and then the last thing so I went to the doctors the other day and what they do , they see us around bash on , on the knee on the nerve and she said , all my muscles have gone ! |
| 20 | And if you have a very small amount of money , and a large number of erm demands on , on that budget , then the last thing you 're going to do , is to spend a lot of money reinforcing your house for an earthquake that may affect your grandchildren and not you . |
| 21 | Girls often become very close to their mothers , consequently the last thing they want to do is to bring any form of unhappiness to their lives . |
| 22 | Almost the last thing she wanted to deal with was a hysterical empath . |
| 23 | Almost the last thing , she amended silently . |
| 24 | ‘ Yet the last thing on my mind is business when I look at you in that witchy little dress ! ’ |
| 25 | ‘ I reached such a low ebb that there were many times when the last thing I wanted to do was to go out and play golf . |
| 26 | ‘ I reached such a low ebb that there were times when the last thing I wanted to do was to go out and play golf . |
| 27 | In most cases the tenant will only close the premises if the tenant 's business is unprofitable , and therefore the last thing the tenant wants is then to have to reimburse the landlord for the landlord 's loss of rating relief . |