Example sentences of "until the last day " in BNC.

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1 Thames Water was allowed ‘ illegal ’ pesticide levels until the last day of 2000 , while in Environment Minister Chris Patten 's own constituency Wessex Water had the same plan .
2 To medieval man it meant a process reserved for the preservation of the corpses of the important , so that they might sleep uncorrupted in their tombs until the Last Day , when body and soul would be reunited to appear before God for His judgement .
3 It runs until the last day of this month .
4 Mike spent more than 30 days waiting on one or other of the platforms , and it was not until the last day that the colobus monkeys came close enough for him to get good shots of them moving through the trees .
5 And so on until the Last Day , when it was always : ‘ How much did he leave , what was he worth ? ’
6 Castro 's next move , designed to convince the Soviet leaders of his personal reliability , was his famous declaration of 1 December 1961 that ‘ I am a Marxist-Leninist , and I shall be a Marxist-Leninist until the last day of my life ’ ( a statement which was reported in full in the Soviet press ) .
7 Many MPs suspect no announcement on the decision will be made until the last day before the summer recess to avoid a Parliamentary row .
8 Just wait until the last day , when you come , you sit down on the fucking stool and each leg goes like that !
9 ‘ He came into the office right until the last days of his illness .
10 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 .
11 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 .
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