the last thing

The last thing he did was to see that his matches were dry and to wind his watch.

Tamara Campbell's kids want it to be the last thing she hears them say, so they say it a lot.

But it was the last thing that I expected, because people think of Kenya as a pretty safe, orderly place where tourists go on holiday.

The last thing the country needs is to be distracted from its practical problems by the quest for an elusive greatness.

While practicing forgiveness may be the last thing you want to do, it is often the wisest move.

He assured me again and again that it was the last thing in the world he would dream of doing in a sober moment.

He had been so obsessed with the mystery of the R Document that love was the last thing on his mind.

I mean, we had a really clean break up, you know. We really acted like adults, so the last thing, oh, oh, god, . . .

For instance, try putting that journal on your nightstand where it's the last thing you see as you end the day.

The last thing we need to do is to specify the specific SOAP address, which will be in the form of an Uniform Resource Identifier (URI).

'The last thing I saw was the eye chart going into surgery, ' he said.

The last thing he needs is a discontented parent around trying to make up for his own sad childhood.

The last thing the world needs right now is disruption of one of its busiest shipping lanes and a spike in insurance premiums.

The last thing we are going to do is drop the opacity of the landscape photo to 80% to give it a faded out look, like everything else has.

the last thing to do is to place your star or your tree topper right to the top of the Christmas tree, which we're going to do today.

The last thing that you need to do is to set up the link from your list page to your update page when you select an employee entry.

When the temperature's out to set new records, the last thing you want is the pain of poison ivy or the burn of a blister.

If you're trying to get an application developed quickly, the last thing you want is to spend a lot of time messing about with appearance.

The last thing this 14-year-old wants to do is leave a warm bed to see the sun rise. It's freezing out there.

The last thing he saw was the frighten and fearful face of the soldier and the cigar slipping out his fingers.

With lower sales and higher costs, carmakers will have to raise prices, the last thing they need at a time of weak demand.

The last thing the American Family Association (AFA) wants to see are openly gay troops serving in the U. S. military.

The last thing the company needs is a co-founder that is no longer engaged but is hanging around out of guilt or ambiguity.

You may want to decide, lest you get corralled into a group outing when it's the last thing you want -- or miss out on some fun.

Public trials for both Mr Rangel and Ms Waters are the last thing Democrats want in the run-up to the much feared mid-term elections.

The last thing the Americans want to see, as they pull out of Iraq, is a war between Turkey and Iraqi Kurds.

The last thing you want is for her to see you as being a phony. As they say, "A good first impression is a lasting one. "

In fact, a quick glance at almost any chart of any investment will tell you that smoothness is the last thing one should expect.

Health insurance is peace of mind - the last thing you want is to have to worry about money if you are in an accident or get sick.

Xu cheap kal geons. 'This is the last thing officials and Shenzhen people wanted to see, but it happened, ' he said.

"The last thing I wanted to figure out was the nuts and bolts of keeping track of receivables and payables, " he said.

Blake McCrossin, a public-relations associate in New York, says he thought shopping would be the last thing he would do on his iPad.

What she didn't know was that I thought my life was terribly boring , and the last thing I wanted to do was to write about myself .

The dentist: The first thing after waking up in the morning and the last thing before going to bed should be a sweet toothy smile.

I had a blood test done yesterday and I'm deathly afraid of needles. The last thing I need is to have yet more stuck into my body.

After all, the last thing you want is to have an unplanned pregnancy or to catch a disease from your partner.

So the last thing they need right now is a terrorist group threatening to turn Greece into a "war zone. "

The last thing you want is for her to be scared of what will help her.

Talking about that toy bull was the last thing he said to me before bidding me farewell.

"This is the last thing that Shenzhen officials and citizens wanted to see, but it happened, " he said.

I said, "Miguel, isn't a thriving bird population like the last thing you want on a fish farm? "

The last thing any American politician wants to do right now is to help non-US banks; at least not in the current populist climate.

The body-hugging traditional Chinese dress was the last thing the 30-year-old would consider wearing to a party.

The last thing they wanted was the public humiliation of a poisoned milk scandal on the eve of the Olympics.

He was probably too afraid to talk, I thought, and the last thing I wanted to do was get him in trouble.

taking poor Gouvernail seriously and making a fuss about him, the last thing he would desire or expect.

Get rid of all the juices, the sodas, and the sports drinks. Liquid sugar is the last thing you need when you are trying to lose fat.

To Americans, the Korean War was the last thing they wanted to memorialize, thus the war became known as "The Forgotten War. "

"The last thing the boss wants to hear is 'you remind me of my son, '" says Gravett.

The last thing they were going to look kindly on, if they chose to see it this way, was a bigamist with a mixed-race baby.

"The last thing Iran wants to see is a permanent American presence in its backyard, " says Aslan.

And the son reunited and he said the last thing he saw was Briant clutching his mother's neck, and that kind of says it all.

My feeling was that if this was the last thing I was going to do, I wanted it to be of some value.

You may take it from me that the last thing we want to do is to disappoint a customer, particularly an old customer like you.

"The last thing they want to hear is that it's going to a landfill, " he said.

Well, poor Mags is stuck with me all day, I'm sure the last thing she wants to do when she gets home is to talk about me.

The last thing to add is a mechanism for Mobile Safari users to opt out of the mobile view and then opt back in.

As anthropologist Ralph Lonton said, "The last thing a fish would ever notice would be water. "

The last thing she wanted was to be on the road away from a support network of friends and family. She wasn't up for it emotionally.

It was the last thing a demoralised workforce wanted to hear.

The last thing the vendors want is to see their (crazy money making) babies turned into commodity software again.

The last thing you want is for your camera to be in and out of focus just as you need to hit the shutter release.

The last thing you want to do is take your job frustrations out on your family.

A growth lull may be just what most emerging markets need, but it is the last thing that any advanced economy wants at the moment.

I remember the last thing my fourth grade teacher said to me, "Try to leave some books in the library for the other kids. "

At a time of economic challenge, the last thing American families need is a massive tax increase.

The girls weren't in a good mood and the last thing that he wanted to do was to piss off The Trio.

[D] the last thing she was interested in was to have people disturb her.

With the dollar likely to weaken against the renminbi over the medium term, the last thing Beijing wants to do is buy more US securities.

The last thing you need when you get home is to find out your laptop was a fire hazard (one of the dangers of overheating laptops).

'The last thing we want to see is the undermining of large institutions, attacking the strength of the public system.

I regret to tell that the last thing we want to see has eventually happened today.

Contact Them. The last thing I would say is to see how they respond to your requests.

"The last thing we want to project, " she said, is image of a flawless relationship.

The last thing I can ever do for you is to leave you.

And uh, which, which if you know, if you know me, that's the last thing I want to do. I mean, I wanna stay married forever. -Right.

There is no question of his coming today. This is the last thing I'd like to do.

Finally, the last thing added was a call to your chart's setTheme method, passing in one of the many color themes that Dojo provides.

With huge sums of money at stake, the last thing I wanted was to be shipping by air.

Immersed in a BBM, the last thing you think of are classic unit tests.

"The last thing China wants is to throw away the country's wealth and be seen as just a source of dumb money. "

So this was basically our last chance, the last thing we tried, and it seems to work.

And the last thing they wanted to do was to anger him by asking him questions that made him uncomfortable.

That's the last thing I expected him to reveal, but in the context of his world view it made perfect sense.

If it's not in your schedule, you'll likely leave it as the last thing to do in the day.

Tonight, however, science was the last thing on her mind.

You know in NBA, if you are to win the trust of coach, the first thing is training and the last thing still is training.

The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage.

The last thing the Japanese need now is to open a second front and invite Chinese retaliation against Japanese exporters.

The last thing she wants is for her husband to spend even more time shut away in the study and not spending time with her.

Touching the bloated, flyblown, limp body with the pink, hairless tail and horrible stench was the last thing Raley intended to do.

I've taken quite a fancy in being on a broomstick. The last thing I would do is bring it back home with me.

In the circumstances the last thing any government in Europe will want is to be seen to displease the new American president.

The last thing that stood out to me was how cramped the top title looked with the images and the details.

The last thing I wanted to do was go back to work, but I knew that having to face the world in the morning was probably the right thing.

The last thing a Web site should do is to display a popup survey just as prospects and customers enter the Web site.

But his "own interest" was the last thing Shelley ever thought of.

The last thing you need to do to complete the JAX-RS story is show the configuration needed to wire all of it up.

It's clear we don't understand it, but the last thing on my mind is to leave you.

I'll never forget the last thing he said to me before we left. 'Relax, son, you have to enjoy life.

That is the last thing America wants as President Barack Obama gets ready to unfurl a regional strategy for Afghanistan.

Hepatology Digest: The last thing I would like to ask you about is sorafenib .

"I hum a little, " she says. "When your husband's a hugesinger, the last thing you do is sing with him. "

The last thing they want is to be undermined by the . . . transformation of offices into residential.

I have tried to think about this and the last thing I remember is the shaking hands before the game started.

With the global economy in its most dangerous circumstances since the 1930s, rising Sino-American tensions is the last thing anyone needs.

"It is a concern, " Wilson said. "The last thing these chimps need is another source of mortality. "

Trying to hit me is the last thing that you should think about.

The last thing he did before he fell fast asleep was to slip Sandy's diary inside his pillow.

Those school plays are always musicals, and the last thing I need is to have to sing a solo in front of the whole school.

The bible say that the last thing god make be woman; he must have make her on a saturday night - It show fatigue .

The last thing you want to have to do is update your entire database because someone moved and changed phone numbers.

After eight years of Dick Cheney, the last thing America needs is another Imperial Vice Presidency.

The last thing you need is the passing, even inadvertently, of fuel into the fire in the weeks and months after the end of the affair.

If you take the redundancy, you'll be spending more time with your wife and kids, and that's the last thing I'd want.

I'm trying to get rid of the last thing I saved.

Depleted from your day at work and pressed for time, the last thing you want to do is listen to a story you've heard countless times before.

What if I never see him again? And the last thing we did was fight.

The high-risk situation that China's banking institutions experienced before is the last thing we want to see this time.

Sometimes the very thing we chasing for turn out to be the last thing we want.

It's obvious that the last thing Mr. Hu wanted was to get questions about issues like his brutal repression in Tibet and Xinjiang.

Even if lawmakers reached a deal on their own, it would be heavily tilted towards spending cuts - the last thing a fragile US economy needs.

The last thing you want is to have to absorb any of thoseliabilities.

Though the last thing she wanted was is sympathy, when he bent down and kissed her, she offered no resistance.

Liquid sugar is the last thing you need when you are trying to lose fat.

Seriously, get it right people, she's a teenager, calling her a bloke is the last thing you want to do.

The error page is the last thing that any development team would want their users to see.

In addition, the last thing the same woman wants to hear is you telling her about the reasons that you left your ex.

The last thing he needed right then was more bad news about his son.

But a strong dollar is the last thing the US economy needs right now.

The last thing she wrote sums up all the others. I can picture her adding it thoughtfully to her list. "Good friend. "

The last thing you want to worry about the night before an interview is pleading with your dry cleaner or getting burned by a hot iron.

The last thing that the Brotherhood wants is to postpone elections which will see it returned as the major political force.

Another round of civil war is the last thing he needs: he is more likely to wait for the new South Sudan to unravel of its own accord.

The last thing they want is to be hit by a string of warranty claims for corroded fuel systems.

He continued, "The last thing I wanted was to deliver this message. But I hope my death helps get the country started down a new path. "

I've got to find a way to get back to that moment, if it's the last thing I do.

I snuck up onto the boat, and that's the last thing I can remember.

The last thing you need is for the scaffolding to relocate at a time when there are actually people upon it accomplishing things.

As we listened to the laid back, middle-of-the-road live band, dancing was the last thing on our minds.

But after wrangling with the GSEs, he became convinced that the last thing Fannie wanted was a capable regulator.

The last thing you want in the face of an advancing zombie horde is a blown fuel sensor.

During a disaster recovery implementation effort, the last thing you want is unexpected hardware and software resource conflicts.

All's well that ends, but a mattress economy is the last thing the U. S. needs.

The last thing I remember, vaguely, is her standing there, looking at the bus, or perhaps at her watch.

She calls me "honey" and often repeats the last thing i said.

When you start your new job, the last thing on your mind is what you'll be doing when you retire in forty years.

And of course, the last thing I'm going to talk about is how to reach that intermediate step, that point of maybe 30 years life extension.

The paper was the last thing, if uneven teeth pad, wavy edges form, pick out the mouth parts locally.

Even so, an early retirement was the last thing on Baekeland's mind, according to his great-grandson .

I guess taking him back and forth to the toilet was the last thing I ever did for him.

The last thing he needs right now is a nasty case of writer's block. -What's it called? - Romeo and Ethel, the Pirate's Daughter.

You're on your way home tonight and bang-o, the last thing you remember is city bus number nine, punching your ticket to the Promised Land.

The last thing I needed was the CEO of a publicly traded company telling the world I was emotionally unstable.

They are the last thing you think of before you fall asleep and they are the first thing you think of when you wake.

And the last thing that you can do to try to avoid these injuries is to hit off grass, not mats.

A sense of social precariousness is the last thing one could expect to meet in a Chardin.

Buck's mother decided almost at once that Christian conversion was the last thing these people needed.

However, putting worms on the fish hooks was the last thing that I wanted to do.

On the contrary, if you're keen on tamping down your own cold, "boosting" your immunity may be the last thing you want to do.

When we converted our loop to a recursive function, the recursive call was the last thing that the function did.

But chapel must have been the last thing on Ravi's mind when Ginnie, after a moment's hesitation, accepted his offer.

The last thing that you must do to make sure that things are working is to run your test from Rational Quality Manager.

When you're in the mood, it's a sure bet that the last thing on your mind is boosting your immune system or maintaining a healthy weight.

A strong close is critical: the last thing you say is what your audience will most likely remember.

"The last thing she wants is any kind of exodus, a management or key skills exodus that would make her start more difficult, " he says.

THE global economy is sicker than a man with a bellyful of bad oysters. The last thing it needs now is a trade war.

The last thing she remembers seeing before blacking out was the wheels of the red Chevy moving out from under the brushes.

The last thing we'd expect a lighthouse to do is to turn off its light, close its doors, and run the other way because the storm is coming.

The last thing to consider is whether your list of packages is up to date.

Legal details are understandably the last thing that someone wants to confront after the initial shock of an asbestos-related illness.

The last thing on earth I wanted was a mess like this.

But condoms filled with purple flour were the last thing Tony Blair expected to be attacked with in 2004. The culprits?

A function call (recursive or not) that is the last thing a function does is called a tail-call.

'That's the last thing a hiring manager wants to hear, ' says Mr.

The last thing you need to do is assign the service endpoint to the partner link you use for your invoke activity.

Host: When Johnny Cash sang Ring of Fire, geology was probably the last thing on his mind.

This event is the last thing to run in the constructor of the class that the user code is running in.

The last thing we want to do, she says, is use his love of golf as a club (sorry) to beat him with.

The last thing that you want to do is get a bad name for yourself instead of compliments.

The last thing she wants to do is to be a fashion model.

As lovable as real toddlers are, the last thing you want to do as an adult is love like one.

The last thing that you need to do is make one last modification to the loadEntries function as shown in Listing 12.

But running the tests has to be the number one thing, and the minimum amount of code criteria should be the last thing.

The last thing we want is to disappoint a customer, particularly an old one like you.

The last thing NATO wants now is to kill a lot of civilians or rebel fighters when the outcome is no longer in any doubt.

Going up: Takeoff technique may be the last thing on your mind, but it's the first task at hand.

Pictures of air travellers in face masks filing past body temperature scanners are the last thing world markets needed right now.

But it may have helped to stifle expectations of deflation, the last thing an over-indebted economy needs.

Even when that's the last thing I seem to want, or need.

The last thing she saw was the glint of the axe blade in the eerie, incandescent light.

The last thing I wanted to do was to set her against me . . .

The last thing any politician wants to do is to spell out the sacrifices he plans to impose on voters.

The last thing technology investors probably expected was a cold shower, given the Nasdaq's recent hot streak.

This is the last thing we need at a time of deepening financial austerity worldwide.

The last thing he saw before him dashed bits some ground below was the rain falling into the spare room.

The last thing it needs, especially as the Beijing Olympics approach, is a lumbering state carrier dominating the key hubs.

this would be the last thing you did before meeting your cell mate for the next 20-30 years. .

Los Angeles, California (CNN) -- The saying goes that life imitates art. But that's the last thing you want when you write crime fiction.

In Alice in Wonderland, the Cheshire Cat disappears and all we have left, the last thing that disappears, is the smile.

"The last thing you need between the two top economies in the world is a trade war, particularly during a recession, for heaven's sake. "

Sitting at home twiddling my thumbs was the last thing I wanted to do.

Felicity: The last thing I ever wanted to do is make you feel anything less than amazing.

Transparency, of course, may be the last thing governments want, given the possible sums involved.

The last thing to do before launching the query is to set the query string.

Surely, the last thing we need is another layer of government on top of the three layers we already have in the U. S.

The last thing we need is to have the police involved.

But the last thing China wants is an escalated conflict, let alone a new cold war, that forces it to take sides.

Political point-scoring is the last thing we want to see in this moment of crisis.

For those people, a business plan might be the last thing they really want to do.

And the last thing that Laura wanted was mam and Marc doing that upstairs halfway through a Sunday afternoon.

Interestingly, this marks the last thing I can do to help myself, which is a little unnerving .

The last thing they want is to have to go to war with the like of America or India and threaten their cushy lifestyle.

If I saw a patient today, the last thing I'd suspect is smallpox.

I'll get him a fight. Believe me, if it's the last thing I do, I'll get him a fight.

The last thing we need to do in this add-on is to configure project logging and set up the log level to trace.

You'd think the last thing Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley would choose to be called is a bank.

As China's biggest export market, the last thing Chinese leaders want is a full blown financial meltdown in Europe.

The last thing he did before he fell fast asleep was to write diaries.

What was the last thing you sold? To who?

and that was the last thing I wanted to talk about.

Everybody agrees that the last thing that Italy needs is another succession of fractious, short-lived governments.

Without the help of an active fiscal policy from Congress, the last thing America can afford is another shock.

She was the last thing we had in common. Break a leg.

To spend the money is the last thing for a miser.

Often performance tuning is the last thing on your mind when you consider Network File Systems (NFS).

I'm ready to graduate to the advanced slopes, now, and the last thing I want is cold feet!

With the global recovery fragile and unbalanced, higher commodity prices are the last thing the world needs right now.

CURSES! THAT FOOL DON KARNAGE BLEW IT AGAIN. BUT I'LL ACQUIRE THAT COMPANY IF IT'S THE LAST THING I DO!

When they wheel you into the operating room, climate change is probably the last thing on your mind.

The last thing we'll look at is administrative update of a bundle in a deployed application.

The last thing she needed was more work.

Almost the last thing I remember was standing with Daisy and watching the moving - picture director and his Star.

At a time when the challenges for the next president are harder than ever, that is the last thing Russia needs.

When loops hit the end of the loop or if it issues a continue, then that is the last thing it will do in that block of code.

After all, the last thing a senior attorney wants to do is correct a junior attorney's comma usage.

Animal spirits, always the fuel in a bubble, are the last thing to dissipate.

Religion was the last thing I expected, all things considered.

It takes Colin an hour to get it going again, by which time love is the last thing on either of our minds.

Mr Obama's main ambition in life is to transform America at home. The last thing he needs is a Vietnam.

The last thing he needed now was to be killed.

And the last thing you should do is create a list of things you need to do tomorrow so you are all set for the next work day.

The last thing a stricken ex-spouse needs to hear is that they are drinking too much or cooking too little.

And a rise in the effective interest rate is the last thing this economy needs.

In political times like today, the last thing we need is something that inaccurately calls into question the integrity of elections.

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The last thing we need is for government to increase and expand taxes to pay for another damaging, wasteful program.

The last thing the US economy needs is a large fiscal stimulus, or indeed any fiscal stimulus at all.

Likely, the last thing on your mind is how your beloved will tweak your cholesterol levels.

If America is under nuclear attack, he assured them, "the last thing on my mind will be whipping up a snack" .