Example sentences of "[conj] at last " in BNC.
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| 1 | She almost wept with relief as his strong fingers closed round her hand and guided her to the safety of a broad platform of stone , where at last it was possible to stand upright . |
| 2 | He want into the huge dining room , where at last he found Alfred arranging bottles on the serving tables . |
| 3 | If a woman becomes weary , or at last dead , from child-bearing , it matters not ; let her only die from bearing , she is there to do it . |
| 4 | Perhaps this was why , uncharacteristically , he burst out aloud with the thought that at last chased the nursery rhyme momentarily from his mind . |
| 5 | Twice , White lost European finals to him ; , on the last occasion , in 1988 , he lost on a rather harsh penalty , but knew that at last he had the measure of the Frenchman . |
| 6 | He played the game of Murder in the dark through the vast rooms of the bishop 's vast palace and told his nonconformist father that at last he found a reason why bishops should live in such large houses . |
| 7 | ‘ Yes , ’ Arty said , feeling that at last he had someone who understood hi m and was taking his case seriously . |
| 8 | With a loyal and loving woman behind him and the semblance of domestic life , he hoped that at last Modi would settle down and produce more paintings . |
| 9 | Back at the rendezvous Stirling felt better after the usual tea laced with rum and was pleased that at last his team had managed to destroy some aircraft . |
| 10 | ‘ Thank goodness that at last I shall be able to come from Stowbridge by the short way and under the low bridge ! ’ he said . |
| 11 | And you would know that at last he had called his own bluff . |
| 12 | The former welcomes the unexpected certainty that at last ‘ we shall all know what they are all learning in school ’ , while the latter sees entitlement as finally pinning down the right of every child , be their circumstances never so mean or deprived , to access to science , maths , modern languages , and so on . |
| 13 | The RAF ground crews , the unsung heroes of this time , continued to work round the clock , the air crews seemed never to be out of their aeroplanes , and the rest of us waltzed through our duties with the exhilarating feeling that at last things were on the move in the right direction . |
| 14 | They argue , somewhat surprisingly , that it is a mistake to meet it by trying to ‘ upgrade the imagined simulation in hopes of finally winning Searle 's concession that at last its states have achieved intrinsic intentionality ’ . |
| 15 | It is pleasing to be able to end by reporting that at last Dundonald Castle is receiving some of the attention it has been denied . |
| 16 | When she had been able to plan her charity lunches and her dinner parties , go shopping , gossip with friends , look at her life and know that at last she had achieved all she had ever wanted , even If sometimes it was a little lonely , a little empty ? |
| 17 | I am glad to see that at last many parents now appear to be doing this . |
| 18 | Since being appointed as Shropshire Youth rep , I have become increasingly aware of the lack of ‘ voice ’ that the youth of Shropshire seem to have , and therefore my job is to represent the youth of Shropshire so that at last we can be heard . |
| 19 | As a regular viewer of Casualty , I am delighted to see that at last television producers have acknowledged that nursing auxiliaries like myself ( and health care assistants ) do exist , as a health care assistant has now been introduced into the programme . |
| 20 | I was also delighted that at last there had been an acknowledgement of the fact that I had a role in what was happening rather than being seen as a bystander in an event that would , all being well , change our lives beyond recognition . |
| 21 | ‘ While the visible signs of recession remain , there must be cause for hope that at last a framework for recovery is falling into place with the worst of the recession behind us , ’ he said . |
| 22 | That night had been particularly joyous , because Ashi felt that at last her family was allowing her to blossom fully into womanhood . |
| 23 | ‘ I was glad that at last she was having a good time , that she was happy , ’ she said in an interview with Vox magazine . |
| 24 | I felt then that at last the ambitions I 'd had for so long were possible , and that I could stop worrying about the gypsy who 'd looked at me closely a couple of years earlier , and said : ‘ You 'll never come to anything , you wo n't . ’ |
| 25 | Robert Norster , national team manager and most definitely a product of the new enlightenment , ventures to hope that at last it is changing . |
| 26 | He had n't expected the red carpet to be unrolled for him , but he had thought that at last he would be at work , setting up his meetings , on the move . |
| 27 | In 1758 an expedition following a more northerly route than the one taken by Braddock was able to capture Fort Duquesne , which was renamed Pittsburgh by grateful Pennsylvanians who felt that at last a British politician had emerged who understood American needs . |
| 28 | In this most strange place and in this short moment Nicholas lost his heart and knew for certain that at last , at very last , without doubt or question , he had fallen in love . |
| 29 | This is a displacement ; it is presented as ‘ a good thing ’ that at last she is able to die . |
| 30 | In the spring of 1950 decisions were reached in Washington that at last pointed the way forward towards a peace treaty . |