Example sentences of "[pron] at last " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have meant to write to you a hundred times during the last three weeks but at all hours of the day I have been busied with teaching and beating and supervising footballings until when at last after all the animals were caged up and I at last had some peace , I have been too sad & too weary to write anything . |
| 2 | It cost pounds in 1946 , but when I at last got it , I could write underwater . |
| 3 | After I 'd kissed her goodbye I felt pretty happy because not only had I at last had an extremely enjoyable sexual experience , but I 'd also been able to give enjoyment . |
| 4 | Only as the cloverleaf began to appear as a grey shape in the otherwise black wall did I at last fall into a dream-wracked sleep . |
| 5 | He wrote : " I at last scarce ever went out and nothing occupied my thought but how to escape from this bloody country . " |
| 6 | I was a someone at last . |
| 7 | Last year someone at last cracked the tide mystery . |
| 8 | I thought , ‘ Oh my God , I 've found someone at last that really does care for me . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Yes — keep your fingers crossed — I think I 've actually found someone at last , ’ she told him with a thankful sigh . |
| 10 | Have you shipwrecked that crazy boat of yours at last ? " |
| 11 | His mouth closed over hers with the passion and glory she knew would never die and she melted into his impassioned embrace with a heart that was free to be his at last . |
| 12 | NICK FALDO stirred himself at last in the Masters at Augusta National yesterday when a third round of 68 made him five under par for the tournament before a storm caused a three-hour delay that had a disastrous effect on defending champion Ian Woosnam , who had been sharing the lead with Craig Parry . |
| 13 | ‘ May God rest your soul , Mother , ’ I heard him say to himself at last . |
| 14 | In short , he had identified himself at last with the spirit of the times . |
| 15 | GUIL stirs himself at last . ) |
| 16 | I do not want to be harsh , but when I first set eyes on him I knew the type at once : the big , gangling provincial , so eager and relieved to find himself at last in artistic circles . |
| 17 | Freeing himself at last from the invisible sheet , he rolled over and lay on top of her , covering her with his body , his face very close to her own . |
| 18 | ‘ It 's nice to be here , ’ he replied with a composed smile , seating himself at last in one of the armchairs , as the woman arranged the tea things on a small table in front of them . |
| 19 | He stirred himself at last and looked round , to find one even more worn out with weariness than himself . |
| 20 | On July 25th , 1908 , the rails forced their way into Denwood , and those who had been waiting so long and patiently considered that the prizes were theirs at last . |
| 21 | A voice from the press benches said loudly of this rather elementary point of honour : ‘ Thank God somebody at last had the guts to say it . ’ |
| 22 | I told them you can bitch about found somebody at last . |
| 23 | This was an appointment which I had repeatedly put off but which at last I was being forced to keep . |
| 24 | Hardly a month goes by without one newspaper or another announcing the development of a computer ‘ with which at last you can converse in ordinary English , not a programming language ’ . |
| 25 | Those canny souls that know how often these things fall at the last hurdle can stop holding their breath and relax over Tadpole Technology Plc 's deal to do a Power RISC-based notebook for IBM Corp : IBM has paid £325,000 for 500,000 new Tadpole shares at what is now the bargain issue price of 65p , which at last week 's price of 224 pence gives it an instant paper profit of £795,000 ; it also gets warrants for 2.22m more shares at the same price to take it to 12.9% . |
| 26 | Further enlightenment is delayed until ( 11 ) , which at last explains how the interview came to take place at all ; but again , this information is postponed to the end of the main clause , in the relative clause " on which he had been invited which in turn contains a further relative clause " who happened to know … resident tutor " . |
| 27 | As the Clean Air Act had left much to state initiative , congressional dissatisfaction with the rate of progress in some states led to the Air Quality Act of 1967 which at last required states to establish air quality standards consistent with federal criteria , and then to devise implementation plans setting out ways of achieving the air quality standards . |
| 28 | The nuns , Nenna 's nuns , what a very long time ago it seemed , in a class known as plain sewing , had taught her bygone arts , darning , patching , reinforcing collars with tape , which at last found their proper object in Willis 's outmoded garments . |
| 29 | The final result was a joint paper by Penrose and myself in 1970 , which at last proved that there must have been a big bang singularity provided only that general relativity is correct and the universe contains as much matter as we observe . |
| 30 | Which of course , which at last the government accepted . |