Example sentences of "[verb] their [noun] [prep] the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | Danov said : " I certainly assume that Zhivkov and some other people in his government who have paraded their innocence in the last few years will be indicted . " |
| 2 | ‘ They 've been encouraging local authorities to tighten their belts for the last 14 years , ’ he protests . |
| 3 | It would be helpful to the planning committee if Q.T. could let us know their views on the last year 's programme . |
| 4 | Even ratting contests and prize-fights seemed to lose their appeal in the last quarter of the century . |
| 5 | Christies International , one of the world 's leading art auctioneers , yesterday revealed their profits for the last six months had been hammered by £1 million down to £2,112,000 . |
| 6 | This year , as the locos dropped their fires for the last time , the cash bag totalled more than £1243.72 . |
| 7 | They have suffered a few setbacks since clinching their place in the last four , including a midweek League Cup semi-final knockout by Coleraine . |
| 8 | I would have preferred to see its replacement with a fixed housing allowance of limited term , and possibly on a more generous scale , for first time buyers only and those who have bought their houses in the last few years ; that should be coupled with the extension of housing benefit , which is limited to the rented sector , to low income home owners who have difficulty in meeting their mortgage payments . |
| 9 | I would have preferred to see its replacement with a fixed housing allowance of limited term , and possibly on a more generous scale , for first time buyers only and those who have bought their houses in the last few years ; that should be coupled with the extension of housing benefit , which is limited to the rented sector , to low-income home owners who have difficulty in meeting their mortgage payments . |
| 10 | Yes Please ’ and problems within the Mondays taking their toll over the last year-and-a-half . |
| 11 | Six Welsh officials and 10 players made the trip , many changing their mind at the last minute . |
| 12 | It was Diana who was held responsible for the steady stream of royal staff who had left their service during the last eighteen months and it was the Princess who was accused of forcing Charles to abandon his friends , change his eating habits and his wardrobe . |
| 13 | Whatever enforced their absence for the last couple of years , it was n't an extensive search for a new musical direction . |
| 14 | The larks carry their tongues to the last atom |
| 15 | When the directors of the London and North Western Railway organised their company in the last century they decided to build an engineering works , for locomotives and rolling stock , near the centre of their network , and this point was in the countryside at Crewe . |
| 16 | But if Labour 's leaders misplayed their hand in the last week , Paddy Ashdown 's behaviour was more damaging by far . |
| 17 | Johnson ( 1988 ) observes that this decrease is not a new phenomenon but is a continuation of trends which have their origin in the last century . |
| 18 | It was an astonishing performance in a first-rate production , and it led directly to her casting as Kitty MacVurrich in The Long Roads , McGrath 's TV film about a cancer-stricken Skye woman and her husband , visiting their children for the last time . |
| 19 | 28th August 1930 was a sad day , as the islanders closed their doors for the last time . |
| 20 | In London the Women 's Film and TV Network , Converse Pictures , Women in Sync and Aphra Workshops have all lost their funding and closed their doors in the last few years . |
| 21 | Aurangzeb 's musketeers held their fire until the last minute , then discharged their entire artillery . |
| 22 | All cities have changed their appearance in the last decade . |
| 23 | Even the most solid-looking dinosaurs may have changed their habits in the last few years ! |