Example sentences of "not [prep] the last time " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Ironically , and not for the last time in history , the Communist-inspired proletariat had more clout outside the Soviet borders than within . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Not for the last time during the long process of negotiation with the GPRA , de Gaulle himself seemed depressed by the impasse . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The big wage increases were led — not for the last time — by the metal workers , who concluded a new agreement late in 1962 . |
| 13 | ‘ Not since the last time you were here , Father . ’ |