Example sentences of "they last " in BNC.
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1 | Yorkshire .... 29 Durham ....... 16 FORCED to abandon the selection policy that in recent seasons embraced many of the top players qualified for the county but living well out of it in favour of those representing clubs within the broad acres , Yorkshire made an emphatic and ebullient start at Otley in an effort to regain the title they last won in 1987 . |
2 | If they last twenty years before being replaced they have done a good service . |
3 | ‘ We have to balance it so they last seven days . |
4 | But they forget they are less agile and machinery has changed since they last worked , and they get caught out . ’ |
5 | Real Madrid 's attempt to regain the UEFA Cup which they last won in 1986 will be severely tested in Turin where the Italians are threatening vendettas after a stormy 2–1 defeat in Spain two weeks ago . |
6 | Under the 1985 Representation of the People Act , as amended in 1989 , Britons overseas may , for up to 20 years after their departure , register to vote by proxy in the constituency where they last lived . |
7 | They last won the World Series in 1918 . |
8 | AN ENGINEER with an American drug company has invented a high technology aid for people who can not remember when they last took their medicines . |
9 | Expats are supposed to register in the constituency where they last lived , but there does n't seem to be much checking of bona fides . |
10 | The champions have become fallen heroes , lying just four points away from a relegation place with a record that parallels this stage of the season a decade ago when they last went down . |
11 | She omitted to mention that , when they last made representations to the bookseller , Mr Pascall , he had said that he stocked the books he could sell ; and if the ladies wanted him to sell better books they should take to buying them and reading them , instead of watching television all day . |
12 | Meredith told him what she had been doing since they last met and Markby gave a summary of his own activities . |
13 | I PLAYED for Rangers when they last met Leeds in the quarter-final of the old Fairs Cup back in 1968 . |
14 | Ford , 31 , with 15 tries this season in 13 outings , is the only survivor from Wales ' 28–9 defeat when they last met England in 1984 . |
15 | Nurses who have married or had children since they last nursed may be intellectually aware of what unsocial hours can mean , but if they have not actually experienced them recently they can be caught unprepared . |
16 | They last won the trophy in 1989 at Dagenham , when they held on for 13 memorable minutes to beat Grays 3–2 and in 1986 the Clarets beat Billericay 3–0 in a two-legged final . |
17 | Around three in ten of those who reported paid work within 10 years of their first birth had returned to a different type of job that was likely to have been worse paid than the one they last held before the maternity . |
18 | She was a little sorry for him , but also glad that she had improved her position since they last met . |
19 | Temporary disabilities do not count , even if they last several months . |
20 | When they last saw you they they were actually quite pleased , were n't they ? |
21 | This idyll had continued up until the previous Saturday , 1st December , when they last met . |
22 | ‘ They last had land girls during the war . |
23 | The Jamaican laughs like Dracula from the divan : ‘ They last ride . ’ |
24 | How unsettled and agitated he had been when they last had visited the Springall house . |
25 | Anna kissed and hugged Seb , but now it was in a more mature , inhibited manner than she had when they last said farewell . |
26 | So Portadown , last season 's runners-up , return to Dublin where they last won the cup two years ago with a classic 4–2 triumph over Muckross . |
27 | Their past and present behaviour will clearly be relevant together with any change in their circumstances since they last cared for the child . |
28 | They last gave that assurance at the Secretary of State level on the tenth of December ninety two and that was a clear assurance given at that time , that each government has a firm intention to proceed with the next phase of the programme . |
29 | They last won back in November . |
30 | Wild boars are roaming woodland they last inhabited in the fifteenth century . |