Example sentences of "[art] last rites " in BNC.
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| 1 | 1983 witnessed the last rites on perhaps the most famous freight line in the country — to Consett . |
| 2 | What appeared to be the last rites were then administered by Kevin McDonald , whoise storming try was converted by Pugh , but with three minutes to go Moon , not to be eclipsed , cut loose for his third try and Watkins landed the match-winning conversion from far out on the left . |
| 3 | In February 1685 , Charles II , the ‘ Merry Monarch ’ , died after receiving the last rites and absolution from a Roman Catholic priest . |
| 4 | He had performed the last rites earlier , when Patrick was at least half aware , and perhaps even knew what was happening and assented to it . |
| 5 | October 28th 1962 had a double significance for tram enthusiasts , who flocked to Blackpool for the last rites : Marton was the last all-street tramway in Britain . |
| 6 | Mr. Leggatt said the recession had affected the industry to a minimal degree , ‘ When it comes to the last rites people will have what they best feel suits the deceased . ’ |
| 7 | When a priest came to give her the Last Rites , she gazed on the crucifix that he held before her eyes and felt her illness leave her . |
| 8 | It was four days ( during which he was given the last rites ) before his doctors gave him a chance to live through . |
| 9 | Still , in the next few days as the news began to filter in from Niki 's hospital that Niki had been given the last rites , that he had inhaled burning fuel and damaged his lungs , that his face had been appallingly burned , the facts did begin to sink in . |
| 10 | ‘ They received the last rites and a blessing ? ’ |
| 11 | There had been rioting down by the docks , some said , but no one knew exactly where ; and Mrs Norris swore they were throwing the dead into mass graves , and half of them good Catholics without the last rites . |
| 12 | Two years ago the same infections almost killed her and she received the last rites . |
| 13 | The intimations were unmistakable , and I telephoned Jackie to come and administer the last rites ( so to speak ) . |
| 14 | Unaware that these were the last rites of disco , the aliens reported back to their Mistress ruler on the home planet . |
| 15 | The individual 's attempts to avoid the pitfalls of sin were assisted by the spiritual food of grace , which was transmitted through the seven Catholic sacraments : baptism , confirmation , confession , the eucharist , marriage , ordination , and the last rites . |
| 16 | Furthermore , the Catholic church involved itself fully both in the important rites of passage , such as baptism , marriage , and the last rites , that marked an individual 's progress from the cradle to the grave , and also in the annual round of celebrations which marked out the changing seasons . |
| 17 | When a priest arrived to administer the last rites , Mansell sent him away . |
| 18 | Bemoaning the corrupting influence of ‘ Americanisation ’ , and already reading the last rites over the decomposing virtues of English civility and order , Arnold 's influential Culture and Anarchy ( 1869 ) was regularly punctuated with fearful glimpses of ‘ a multitude of miserable , sunken , and ignorant human beings ’ in the city slums . |
| 19 | Your marriage has got off to an unfortunate start but it does n't warrant the last rites just yet . |
| 20 | Niki Lauda displayed courage beyond all recognition in 1976 when , six weeks after being given the Last Rites , he was back behind the wheel of his Ferrari picking up points in the Italian Grand Prix at Monza . |
| 21 | He tended to the people while they were dying , gave them the Last Rites and everything , buried them . |
| 22 | ‘ Anyway , I thought it was the Last Rites they gave you when you were dying , what d' you call it , Extreme Unction ? ’ |
| 23 | As my old friend , the Communist priest , performed the last rites , did I see a half smile on those weatherbeaten features ? |
| 24 | It might as well have been the last rites . |
| 25 | So he did what he has become accustomed to doing — gave the last rites . |
| 26 | The last rites of the VORRSA were played out at Welshpool at the end of September , when the assets were transferred to the Welshpool and Llanfair Light Railway . |
| 27 | When the sturdy Hollywood , who soldiers in the trenches with the modest St. Michael 's club in Newtownhamilton , was plucked from the ‘ extras ’ the last rites were being administered to Armagh 's championship hopes . |
| 28 | He witnessed the marriages , gave the last rites and buried the dead ; and , most important of all , he administered the sacrament of the mass . |
| 29 | One of these missing persons was still lying ( lying still , rather ! ) in the police mortuary in St Aldate 's ; the other person , with Morse 's full permission , had that afternoon departed by train for London , not stopping on this occasion ( as he had claimed to have stopped earlier ) at Didcot Parkway , but travelling straight through — past Reading , Maidenhead , Slough — to Paddington , whence he had taken a taxi to the Tour Company HQ in Belgravia in order to discuss the last wishes and the last rites of his erstwhile legal spouse , Mrs Laura Mary Stratton . |
| 30 | As Rabbi Glikstein read out the last rites at his levoyah , those words rang in my ears . |