Example sentences of "last word " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The front of the shirt is not bad ’ — such were his last words on parting . ’ |
| 2 | I am not sure how much work these last words are doing , and if there is tautology here , it is compounded by what follows . |
| 3 | Folly of last words as of first , wrote Harsnet . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Her last words to him were ‘ call my father ’ . |
| 6 | ‘ You 're not fucking likely to get that ! were Sid 's last words as he walked off in the direction of the latrine . |
| 7 | The last words that I heard were , ‘ Good night , Piper , I shall leave the door open . ’ |
| 8 | Those last words of the Buddha , which are also contrived as Reilly 's last words to Celia — ‘ Work out your salvation with diligence ’ — look back to Eliot 's 1914/ 15 essay discussing the supremely attainable good . |
| 9 | Those last words of the Buddha , which are also contrived as Reilly 's last words to Celia — ‘ Work out your salvation with diligence ’ — look back to Eliot 's 1914/ 15 essay discussing the supremely attainable good . |
| 10 | Wexford 's last words were drowned in thunder . |
| 11 | They were the last words they spoke to each other . |
| 12 | ELL , I 've had a happy life ’ — as Hazlitt may not have said after all , in which case bang goes the cheeriest of all the Famous Last Words . |
| 13 | As for last words , there are some fully-authenticated late ones addressed to an editor which sound more convincing : ‘ I wish to God you could let me have £5 more on account . ’ |
| 14 | He wrote the last words of The Amateur Poacher — a gospel , an incantation — as an epigraph on all his own books . |
| 15 | In the first , the friends and relatives of the dying man , frequently accompanied by young children , are standing within earshot of his bed , listening either to his last words or , if he has already fallen silent , to the prayers of the pastor , who is celebrating the triumph of Christian immortality over death and the devil . |
| 16 | When the end is coming , screens are placed round the bed ; in any case there are unlikely to be any ‘ last words ’ , because most of us die under some form of sedation . |
| 17 | If poor Mrs Cecil had been less lethargic , she might have wished to echo George Washington 's last words , addressed to his physician : ‘ I thank you for your attentions ; but I pray you take no more trouble about me . |
| 18 | Anxiety to hear and record last words was still strong at a time when anaesthetics were beginning to come into use , making it possible to reduce suffering , though often at the cost of rendering the dying person comatose and inarticulate . |
| 19 | There is great irony in those last words of Abraham 's , ‘ God will provide … ’ |
| 20 | LAST WORDS |
| 21 | She flew to give him last words of advice , all of them unnecessary . |
| 22 | Mother Bombie 's last words before she took herself off to her own quarters had been , ‘ Rose — shift over . |
| 23 | His last words , flung over his shoulder at her through the cold , stinging spray , were : |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The last words were drowned out as four or five people produced as much sound as several shifts of riveters on a super-liner . |
| 26 | Breath spent , and last words spoken , |
| 27 | Irina however had not picked up the seriousness of his last words . |
| 28 | 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 ) . |
| 29 | Among Jesus ' last words , he left us this legacy , which in a sense reflects his whole life : |
| 30 | He spoke the last words grimly . |