Example sentences of "last [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had he really chosen this pain as the way to spend his last minutes ? |
| 2 | Although he knew it was to soothe himself rather than a.i. ’ he spent a few last minutes communing with Thoth by neural link , explaining yet again how grieved he was to have to ask it to give its ‘ life ’ for him . |
| 3 | But in the last minutes of the game , after Phillip de Glanville had ripped open the defence for Hunter 's second try — leaving England 18–12 behind — England again lacked the cold , clinical brain the would open the way through the New Zealand defence . |
| 4 | The last minutes of their lives were pieced together by forensic teams hunting the killers . |
| 5 | A HUGE open-air concert has been cancelled at the last minutes over cash wrangles . |
| 6 | His penalty against Tarbes in the last minutes of the game levelled the score 18–18 . |
| 7 | The great Aboriginal winger , Chicka Ferguson , was on the wing with Canberra , and in the last minutes , when Balmain had already sent their two most powerful forwards off , and when Bob Hawke was already on his way down from the VIP box to present the shield to Balmain , Chicka scored a wonderfully impossible weaving and kinking try to tie the game . |
| 8 | It 's our duty anyway to get these words though the last minutes of discussion have been possibly the most valuable cos if we can not use language accurately |
| 9 | During the last minutes she had been talking with extreme rapidity in a light high voice . |
| 10 | From the last minutes ? |
| 11 | Some were lying on charpoys , snoozing away the last minutes before their first meal for thirteen hours . |
| 12 | If there was six foot four of muscle , tensed and angry in the last minutes of its life , and your only protection was some lunatic hoodlum standing to one side with a loaded pistol pointed in the general direction of the fray , would you leap in there ? |
| 13 | The emotions of the last minutes had drained her . |
| 14 | In the last minutes of the debate — the hon. Member for Birkenhead need not worry ; I am leaving him time within the advice that I have been given — I must mention the generality of the issues raised . |
| 15 | He brings with him his radio and prepares for — his — match with Lierse listening to BBC hoping for Leeds goals … and after the Wembley match he went straigth to Batty for changing shirts — i think he said that for the couple of last minutes that was the main thing — not that he had made a great goal or Norway getting a draw . |
| 16 | i can just verify that Frank is having talks with a spanish 1 div club ( i do nt think they have any ‘ premier div ’ down there — so first is first … ) — i guess Frank feels he does n't get the chance he + me + others thinks he deserves — Dino and Wallace just not delivering goals and Frank never getting more than the 10 last minutes from time to time . |
| 17 | And so here this rural craft er thing which I wrote for which you asked me which is arriving from the last minutes , is I 'll read it out to you . |
| 18 | Right , that 's matters arising from the last minutes , any other matters arising from the last minutes ? |
| 19 | Right , that 's matters arising from the last minutes , any other matters arising from the last minutes ? |
| 20 | Erm if you recall in our managements ' erm in our discussions when I presented the last the last minutes of the er s the subcommittee which has purchased the ground , we agreed to erm co er co-work with two other two of the clubs sports clubs to establish a management committee , which we would then hope would take over management of the ground from the parish council . |
| 21 | A schoolboy has been recalling the last minutes of a ski-lift crash in which his step brother died . |
| 22 | Int eh last minutes of the Sale , a friend from South Leith Church , kindly helping , managed by sheer persistence and cleverness to find in the music section ( a rate slip-up ! ) a perfect RLS book for the new owner of Swanston Cottage . |
| 23 | Page seven of the minutes , last minutes . |
| 24 | Last hours of murdered lovers ' lane couple could yield clue . |
| 25 | An account of the last hours and words is written for the edification of those unable to be present . |
| 26 | In 1816 Mrs Hawkes , a pious lady who had herself been a convert of Richard Cecil 's , was called to the death-bed of a Mr Vaughan , whose last hours she described in a letter to a friend : |
| 27 | Her last hours were disturbed by ‘ strong delirium ’ ; but her younger sister , who helped to nurse her and afterwards wrote an account of her death , insisted that ‘ the medicine given to her contained no opium . ’ |
| 28 | If the exiled son were a soldier and died suddenly , as so often happened , a brother officer would write of his last hours to the sorrowing parents ( see chapter seven ) . |
| 29 | During his last hours in this world , he found unspeakable comfort in thinking about some verses from Hebrews Ch.12 , ‘ But ye are come unto mount Sion , and unto the city of the living God , the heavenly Jerusalem , and to the innumerable company of angels , to the general assembly and church of the firstborn , which are written in heaven , and to God , the Judge of all , and to the spirits of just men made perfect , and to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant ’ . |
| 30 | Here , for example , is how the American journalist I. F. Stone describes the last hours of his voyage to Haifa , aboard a Turkish refugee ship called the Akbel , a listing hulk carrying hundreds of concentration camp survivors on their journey to Palestine . |