Example sentences of "then [art] last " in BNC.

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1 Is this then the last temptation ? he wrote .
2 I had two more chub in quick succession to 2 lb 14 oz and then the last bite of the day produced this roach — what a fish ! ’
3 These guys are nudging each other , they go up to her , the music changes , and they 're talking to her , and she says no or whatever , and then the last guy walks up to her , the woman turns round , and she 's been replaced by someone wearing the same dress but she 's really fat .
4 A whole day to Leghorn and a night spent there and then the last but one square on the chart was reached .
5 By then the last radio station had stopped broadcasting .
6 Then the last barrier came down .
7 And then the last time ; that had turned out to be a walk on the wild side .
8 The storm signals are reduced in urgency , from No. 8 to 3 , to 1 , and then the last is taken away .
9 And then the last item on the NOTES pages of Curve 's itinerary comes back to me : ‘ At a few shows , mainly the universities , alcohol is going to be a problem ’ .
10 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 .
11 If there were , then the last decade and a half of selectionist-neutralist controversies over all these different non-definitional issues could have been settled in advance without recourse to empirical data , in an armchair with a scientist 's glossary and a logician 's truth table .
12 I 'd like you to tell me about the first time you were really aware of these symptoms , then the worst episode you can remember , and then the last … .
13 By now I was thoroughly enjoying this superb route with its delightful sloping traverse , then the last steep arête to an abrupt finish on Wimbledon turf .
14 Then the last number , which someone said earlier , is the number of the layer in the ground .
15 Just then the last pair turned up with their measurements .
16 I 'd done nearly all me time in Styal , you know , and then the last thing they sent us out .
17 if any utterance is long and complicated , mimic the last phrase first , then the last two phrases , then the last three , and so on , until you can manage the whole utterance
18 if any utterance is long and complicated , mimic the last phrase first , then the last two phrases , then the last three , and so on , until you can manage the whole utterance
19 I find it quite hard going being the first up every morning and then the last to bed after walk and doing the washing up machine and so on .
20 Then the last of the human tide swept past him and he started down in their wake , guiding Karen with a protective arm round her shoulders .
21 If this is right , then the last example invites comparison with an earlier one , Extract 6 , where the speaker is again " reporting " — only this time , her innermost thoughts , which she very much stands behind : Lastly , we find examples where code switching for " quotation " combines with switching at other points in a narrative strategy .
22 If Gregory 's ordering of events here is right , and there are no means of testing this part of his account , then the last years of Clovis 's reign were concerned with the internal power politics of the Franks , whereas much of his earlier activity had taken place on an international stage .
23 Well I can remember then the last year when I was in the ninth year we did it in that half term , it was n't the first
24 And then the last is if the portions of land rented out by rich peasants of a semi-landlord type exceed in size the land held by themselves and by their hired labour the land rented out shall be requisitioned .
25 We heard another 4 lots of screaming , but then the last time we heard it , that was really loud .
26 first letter of one word put allay and then the last letters of the word sort of like He Helen will be Halibin like that you see and that 's how we talk at work if we got a get
27 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 !
28 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 .
29 Then a last few weeks of freedom at High Brook .
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