Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] the last day " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , so close to the Last Days for which he had been prepared , Seth was what he was , and nothing less . |
| 2 | In Anglo-Saxon belief , and in European popular tradition both before and after that , 25 March is the date of the Crucifixion ; also of the Annunciation ( nine months before Christmas ) ; also of the last day of Creation . |
| 3 | ‘ We are probably in the last days of this authority and we want to make sure our schemes and aspirations come to fruition . ’ |
| 4 | The order is normally deposited very near to the last day , the reason being that this allows of last-minute alterations . |
| 5 | ‘ So you still have n't decided to give the poor guy a break , even for the last day on set ? ’ |
| 6 | I arrived there during the last day of it , and heard Dr. Bernardo pleading eloquently on behalf of the children he labours so unweariedly to rescue from the streets of our great cities , and also saw a gathering of the colporteurs gathered from the north and west , to get a word of encouragement in their laborious work of carrying pure literature into the homes of those who in numbers of instances live beyond the reach of the minister and the bookseller . |
| 7 | And so on until the Last Day , when it was always : ‘ How much did he leave , what was he worth ? ’ |
| 8 | They were all there on the last day , even down to the original.horse-drawn trams , rattling or gliding past in stately line-astern , a fleet from decades gone , past the Central Hotel and the ‘ Mal ’ , up Hope Street , and bidding farewell to Argyle Street under the gateway of the Hielan' Man 's Umbrella . |
| 9 | Mr Hayward said Roberts had tried to kill himself again in the last day or two with a drugs overdose . |
| 10 | " I knew him briefly in the last days before the Rising , but I know of his work of course . |
| 11 | In the realm of healing much happens to authenticate Christ 's present will and power to heal the otherwise incurable , and yet , often distressingly , enough fails to happen to serve to remind us that we are not yet at the last day , and to leave the mystery of the ‘ not yet ’ all around us ’ ( Smail 1975:124 ) . |
| 12 | The last few days passed horrendously quickly — except for the bus ride down to Delhi at 3am on the last day of March . |