Example sentences of "[adv] for [art] last time " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | It did not seem so cute after a massive explosion ripped apart the pilot plant ( ironically as it was being shut down for the last time ) and killed two of Dequasie 's colleagues . |
| 2 | Marr watches ‘ Ouija Board ’ go down for the last time |
| 3 | AN ERA ends today when the shutters come down for the last time at the Owen Owen store in Liverpool . |
| 4 | I felt I could not refuse to see my aunt , perhaps for the last time . |
| 5 | I shall do so for the last time . |
| 6 | They were watching the camp pack away for the last time before it moved on without them . |
| 7 | They had fallen behind when Simon Tracey , not for the last time , missed a corner and right-back Colin Hill poked Shane Westley 's header into his own net . |
| 8 | Ironically , and not for the last time in history , the Communist-inspired proletariat had more clout outside the Soviet borders than within . |
| 9 | The difference between them was that Louis-Napoleon had no intention of sliding down again and in this determination he was aided , not for the last time , by the actions of his opponents . |
| 10 | There were troubled times generally following the Wars of the Roses and the Cornish in particular , not for the last time , felt that they , a Celtic race with their own language , were treated with increasing indifference by a centralised London Government . |
| 11 | Not for the last time , he discovered , as some of his successors were later to discover , that king and pope could easily combine to ignore the archbishop . |
| 12 | But it was soon partly cancelled by the victory of the English-backed Montfortists at the battle of Auray , in southern Brittany , on 29 September 1364 , at which Charles de Blois was killed and du Guesclin , not for the last time , was taken prisoner . |
| 13 | Alexander I Philhellene had medised ( below ) in the Persian Wars ; philhellenism , not for the last time , does not imply letting Greeks have their way politically . |
| 14 | She dreamed , not for the last time , that the baby had prematurely got out , like a kangaroo embryo , and was making its way blind and white and tiny up and up the billowing creases of Mrs Orton 's purple front , as that woman talked on and on , shifting so that at every turn the climbing thing was about to be casually suffocated . |
| 15 | She should have been the original ‘ It ’ girl , Clara Bow , but the staff , not for the last time , got it wrong , and put the more vampish Theda Bara on the cover instead . |
| 16 | Not for the last time during the long process of negotiation with the GPRA , de Gaulle himself seemed depressed by the impasse . |
| 17 | And I do , and I do , I must say not for the last time during the passage of this Bill , I do feel constrain to offer my very deep sympathy to my Noble Friend on the front bench . |
| 18 | The big wage increases were led — not for the last time — by the metal workers , who concluded a new agreement late in 1962 . |
| 19 | His father had been ‘ under the weather , since July , and Lewis was half-aware that he might be coming home for the last time . |
| 20 | The last date was significant ; it was the Monday following the Sunday on which Inez left home for the last time . |
| 21 | As the crews tied up for the last time in Southampton , watched , and waited for by families and friends they had n't seen for eight months , many of them agreed getting back to a routine , going back to work , might by tough . |
| 22 | The Queen , the unit 's colonel-in-chief , stood watching a final march past by as the corps band struck up for the last time . |
| 23 | This means that at the European Top 12 tournament , which started in Copenhagen yesterday afternoon , players will still be able to use many types of glue — but probably for the last time in a major European event . |
| 24 | The conflict is played out for the last time in The Red Shoes ( 1948 ) , where the ballerina played by Moira Shearer initially lives unproblematically for her dancing , until she falls in love with a composer . |
| 25 | Mark crossed the imposing entrance hall and went out for the last time . |
| 26 | On 1st April 1989 , annual domestic rate bills were sent out for the last time . |
| 27 | But with the base set to close , the planes have flown out for the last time . |
| 28 | I think once more , but now for the last time , I 'm going to turn back again to the preface to The Reason of Church Government and whoops and read you one more sentence erm in which he is apologizing once more for having entered the fray , the political fray ‘ But although a poet , soaring in the high region of his fancies , with his garland and singing robes about him , might without apology speak more of himself than I mean to do , yet for me , sitting here below in the cool element of prose , a mortal thing among many readers of no imperial conceit , to venture and divulge unusual things of myself , I shall petition to the gentler sort it may not be envy to me . ’ |
| 29 | I went on further , and their lightness and gleam had gone when I looked back for the last time . |
| 30 | So we came about for the last time , since we were now south of the entrance , and motorsailed north , a little further off , to give the rock a good clearance . |