Example sentences of "[art] last words " in BNC.
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| 1 | Further that we shall petition government tor an abolition and nullifying of the foresaid Act from the records of British parliament ; that the members of parliament for this county shall present this petition , or any annexed thereto , to the two Houses of Parliament , and to the Privy Council , during the prorogation of parliament — ‘ Menzies was seething and he broke in on the last words . |
| 2 | The last words that I heard were , ‘ Good night , Piper , I shall leave the door open . ’ |
| 3 | They were the last words they spoke to each other . |
| 4 | He wrote the last words of The Amateur Poacher — a gospel , an incantation — as an epigraph on all his own books . |
| 5 | There is a Biblical cadence in the last words he shares with his mother : ‘ Wherever there 's a fight so hungry people can eat , I 'll be there . |
| 6 | The last words were drowned out as four or five people produced as much sound as several shifts of riveters on a super-liner . |
| 7 | Let us leave the last words with Walter Abish who declares that ‘ the innovative novel is , in essence , a novel of disfamiliarization , a novel that has ceased to concern itself with the mapping of the ‘ familiar ’ world ’ ( Martin 1983 : 238 ) . |
| 8 | He spoke the last words grimly . |
| 9 | In view of their close relationship , it is fitting that Hofmann should have the last words on Edward Chambers Nicholson . |
| 10 | Sitting alone at her kitchen table , Kelly read the last words ever written by her father . |
| 11 | The last words came grudgingly . |
| 12 | The last words had the force of a command , almost of a warning . |
| 13 | The last words were spoken almost under her breath but her eyes were fixed on Lessingham 's face . |
| 14 | The last words of that great prayer express the worship with which we began : ‘ ’ For thine is the Kingdom , the Power and the Glory , for ever and ever ’ , the final word denoting our agreement with all that precedes it : Amen . |
| 15 | The last words had simply slipped out . |
| 16 | The last words of the song , ‘ singing sorrowless ’ , stand out against this current , but still wherever the lovers go it is ‘ away ’ , ‘ in the forest ’ , maybe the forest of mortality and final death . |
| 17 | The last words came out defiantly . |
| 18 | . they were the last words he spoke for 2 and a half years |
| 19 | Those were the last words I heard him say for over two years . |
| 20 | His lips were still purse on the last words when they suddenly sprang wide as he saw her almost stagger back from him , her hand to her throat , the colour draining from her face . |
| 21 | Everything in front of him he read , down to the last words . |
| 22 | He was looking , without seeming to look , at Andropulos as he said the last words and felt almost certain that he saw a flicker of expression cross his face . |
| 23 | The last words were met with silence . |
| 24 | BACK to the mainline for the last words . |
| 25 | And the last words you 'd hear would be : You 'd never get me in one of those things . |
| 26 | The quiet north-country voice spoke the last words the criminal was ever to hear . |
| 27 | Those were the last words he said to me , apart from when he woke up and said he had to go to the toilet but you do n't count that , do you . ’ |
| 28 | But the project belonged ultimately to the pupils and they should have the last words . |
| 29 | Mrs Varden turned over to the next page ; then went back again to the bottom line over leaf to be quite sure of the last words ; and then went on reading with an appearance of the deepest interest and study . |
| 30 | Those were the last words she ever said . |