Example sentences of "they [vb past] last [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They might be short of one or two quality players , but in such a yo-yo season Villa have as good a chance as any , particularly if Dalian Atkinson returns from injury to give them the sort of finishing power they lacked last night . |
| 2 | Meanwhile the indefatigable Joanna Castle is taking yet another group of children around part of her downlands on the Ridgeway , where the calves they met last year are now only a year away from being next year 's Sunday roast |
| 3 | Members of Darlington Health Authority praised ‘ fantastic ’ waiting list cuts when they met last week . |
| 4 | Union representatives at the plant have called for the reconvening of a meeting with the Scottish industry minister , Allan Stewart , whom they met last Friday in an attempt to win government backing for their fight against the redundancies . |
| 5 | They agreed last night that while she remained head of a ‘ foreign and oppressive state which had an aggressive , irredentist claim ’ to Northern Ireland , she would not be welcome at the City Hall or any other civic property . |
| 6 | They moved last year into their 180-year-old converted barn in 12 acres near Launceston ( Peter Aldam negotiated a third off the six-figure asking price ) . |
| 7 | The travelling fans voted the Newport Road hostelry as the best pub of the 50-plus they visited last season . |
| 8 | They reported last week that the NINA electron accelerator at Daresbury in Cheshire was built too slowly and too late to produce research comparable with that of similar machines elsewhere ( New Scientist 21 April , p 133 ) . |
| 9 | The French government also announced that it would pay more than £5 million compensation to French fishermen for half the losses they reported last month as a result of falling prices . |
| 10 | Wales hope Cyprus , whom they beat last month , can do them a favour by pinching points from their main rivals in the run in . |
| 11 | THE Danes voted for the same treaty yesterday that they rejected last June because they were misled by the media and politicians , claimed an East Anglian Tory Euro-rebel . |
| 12 | I cant remember who they played last night , but I think the win will mean they will be more than happy with a point . |
| 13 | They played last year did n't they ? |
| 14 | After the torrent of adverse publicity they attracted last season , the hunters were anxious to show they 're not the rich savages most of the public believes them to be . |
| 15 | What erm er did you look in the file and see what they hired last time ? |
| 16 | They pipped last year 's IBOA League winners , the ‘ Random Strikers ’ from AIB Bank 10/11 O'Connell St. , Dublin , who played exceptionally well but failed to capitalise on some sensational strikes at the closing stages . |
| 17 | They welcomed last month 's initiative by Mr Bush and called for a summit with him within 90 days . |
| 18 | And then it was another three days travelling by coach across France , and by ferry to Dover where they arrived last night . |
| 19 | After the reports some political worthies spew out the same old phrases they parroted last time the natives grew restless somewhere . |
| 20 | Only when they captured last season 's Royal Liver League crown did prospects of All Ireland glory come into the equation . |
| 21 | Well , that 's all very well but there is one other I would like to add to the list and put it near the top — Downpatrick , who have been battling on their own for years , and who still manage to attract huge crowds as they showed last Monday . |
| 22 | Now , they stuck last year , did n't they ? ’ |
| 23 | Forgetting their purpose they collected last year 's cones and made a pile of them . |
| 24 | They soared last year , particularly among people who bought property early in 1988 , often on generous mortgages that stretched monthly payments to the borrowers ' limits . |
| 25 | They LIED last Tuesday in their weekly works ' newsletter when they said : ‘ Reprocessing has been temporarily halted because of maintenance work . ’ |
| 26 | They LIED last Wednesday when they spoke of a ‘ mechanical fault ’ . |
| 27 | The sit-down came on a day when Saints fans picked up on the ‘ Branfoot out ’ chants they began last season . |
| 28 | BOTTOM OF DIVISION TWO ( How they finished last season ) |
| 29 | Police sources in Amsterdam have recently disclosed that a forty-three year old man from the city , whom they arrested last October for stealing rare editions from the university library of Amsterdam , has removed books , title-pages and maps from several other libraries in Holland . |
| 30 | A British farmer from Kenya gave two senior Rhodesian executives what they needed last week . |