Example sentences of "[verb] their last [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Substantial increases on the previous year were made by 446 Branches , 138 Branches sustained their last year 's contribution , which in many cases had already been a record , and only 43 were significantly down .
2 Many Titfords from a number of family branches found their last resting place at Abney Park .
3 Holders of certain cards are being exhorted in a brochure which accompanies their last statement to take advantage of credit facilities and spread their payments into the new year .
4 The government announced on Aug. 12 the discontinuation of all uranium extraction and the closure of processing plants , angering uranium miners , who had received their last pay packets in April .
5 They really need to win their last two games and hope Muckmore lose their last outing of the season .
6 On the return journey up the incline from Coombe the engine ran out of steam , causing passengers for Plymouth to miss their last connection .
7 Coaches on the way to Hastings made their last stop for horses at Battle 's George Hotel , where the ostler lived in a tiny cottage which still stands in the yard , to be roused by the bell outside his front door .
8 Dark gull-like seabirds , called Jaegers in North America , noted for their piratical methods of feeding , by pursuing other seabirds , especially gulls and terns , to make them disgorge their last catch .
9 To commemorate South Africa 's readmission to Test cricket , Coopers and Lybrand Ratings have published a list of what their world rankings would have been in March 1970 when South Africa played their last Test match .
10 The Skykings played their last home match to the enthusiastic support of wives and fellow servicemen .
11 On the walls of her room , there are posters from the time she was Ma'moiselle de Paris , and the going was good , before the theatre attendances dwindled and the managers played their last card , the posing nude .
12 She kept the sheet firmly pulled beneath her chin , unwilling to let Johnny see her nakedness , remembering their last meeting , and wary of him now .
13 We had disturbed their last feed of the day .
14 This feeling owes a lot to all the novels and films and to actual practice with condemned men being ‘ granted their last wish before they die ’ , but it is also a strong expression of trying to anticipate impending loss .
15 National Service seemed their last hope .
16 Worrell had achieved any captain 's dream of knowing that his players would give their last drop of sweat just for him .
17 With Bath to play their last match at home , it looks as if the title will once again belong to the West Country , even if Orrell were to win their last two games , as Bath 's points difference is much the greater .
18 Samantha laughed at this pretentious way of describing their last meal .
19 If his Subaru Legacy is first back in Chester tomorrow evening , Britain 's brightest rally star will scoop the cash prize being offered by Lombard — to mark their last year of sponsorship — for a home win .
20 No doubt Ferguson wants his team to make a fight of it , though presumably on more civilised lines than the tunnel punch-up which followed their last match here .
21 Seated under the wings of the large yellow aeroplane , Alcock and Brown enjoyed their last meal before setting off .
22 And Pascoe , Mooney and reserve keeper Tim Carter could all have played their last game for the club .
23 And Pascoe , Mooney and reserve keeper Tim Carter could all have played their last game for the club .
24 In the name , once more , of consistency , all verbs ending in eler or eter will henceforth follow the pattern of the verbs peler and acheter , always taking an accent as they decline , instead of sometimes doubling their last consonant .
25 During the weekend of the Windsor fire , she and her sons spent their last weekend there together — so Diana could pack up her belongings and move them all back to London .
26 During the nineteenth century , as more people survived their last child leaving home , it became a particularly important form of support , with perhaps a quarter of working-class older people in some towns taking in boarders : a pattern which persisted until young people began to marry much earlier in the 1950s , setting up on their own instead — and leaving more of the old on their own .
27 More than two hundred children whose school was damaged by a severe gale have spent their last day in temporary classrooms .
28 It 's like U2 called their last tour Love Town .
29 The land became active at dusk : oxen appeared in their fields , and buffaloes having their last feed before being led home after the day 's grazing .
30 Any awkward silence that might have followed their last exchange was overtaken by the business-like rattle of cups and saucers as Elsie placed the tea things on the table nearest to Mrs Wilson .
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