Example sentences of "[verb] the [num ord] rites " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was four days ( during which he was given the last rites ) before his doctors gave him a chance to live through . |
| 2 | Still , in the next few days as the news began to filter in from Niki 's hospital that Niki had been given the last rites , that he had inhaled burning fuel and damaged his lungs , that his face had been appallingly burned , the facts did begin to sink in . |
| 3 | Niki Lauda displayed courage beyond all recognition in 1976 when , six weeks after being given the Last Rites , he was back behind the wheel of his Ferrari picking up points in the Italian Grand Prix at Monza . |
| 4 | ‘ They received the last rites and a blessing ? ’ |
| 5 | Two years ago the same infections almost killed her and she received the last rites . |
| 6 | When a priest arrived to administer the last rites , Mansell sent him away . |
| 7 | He had performed the last rites earlier , when Patrick was at least half aware , and perhaps even knew what was happening and assented to it . |
| 8 | Your marriage has got off to an unfortunate start but it does n't warrant the last rites just yet . |
| 9 | The intimations were unmistakable , and I telephoned Jackie to come and administer the last rites ( so to speak ) . |
| 10 | Bemoaning the corrupting influence of ‘ Americanisation ’ , and already reading the last rites over the decomposing virtues of English civility and order , Arnold 's influential Culture and Anarchy ( 1869 ) was regularly punctuated with fearful glimpses of ‘ a multitude of miserable , sunken , and ignorant human beings ’ in the city slums . |
| 11 | As my old friend , the Communist priest , performed the last rites , did I see a half smile on those weatherbeaten features ? |
| 12 | So he did what he has become accustomed to doing — gave the last rites . |
| 13 | He witnessed the marriages , gave the last rites and buried the dead ; and , most important of all , he administered the sacrament of the mass . |
| 14 | In February 1685 , Charles II , the ‘ Merry Monarch ’ , died after receiving the last rites and absolution from a Roman Catholic priest . |
| 15 | 1983 witnessed the last rites on perhaps the most famous freight line in the country — to Consett . |