Example sentences of "[adj] at last " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Why , Mahmoud , have you done something sensible at last and joined the river police ? ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm glad you 've decided to be sensible at last . |
| 3 | ‘ It was an obvious choice , partly because of all the business they were doing in Europe and also because the public was fed up with the same old faces ; here was someone fresh at last , ’ recalls Peter Batty , director of the him . |
| 4 | The Jockey Club has announced it 's to hold a full-scale inquiry into exactly what went wrong at last Saturday 's Grand National in an effort to prevent it happening again . |
| 5 | I was fully English at last . |
| 6 | ‘ At the record company party , on their hands a dead star at last , the sycophantic slags all say , ‘ I knew him best and I knew him well ’ . ’ |
| 7 | It is ironic to think that the Opéra-Bastille has become popular at last with precisely the thing which it was conceived to counter : the superstar ! |
| 8 | Tony Clark struck the front on Free At Last with a quarter of a mile to cover , and his mount held off Qui Danzig by a neck . |
| 9 | No , success came because Mr Major discovered what he believed , and that made him feel free at last . |
| 10 | ‘ What I meant was , , said the oldest son , ‘ is that we are free at last . |
| 11 | I sat alone in a compartment , coming to terms with the fact that I was free at last and if I wanted to put my feet up on the opposite seat or take off my tie , no one in uniform had the right to bustle in and call me Airwoman in that well-known disapproving voice . |
| 12 | I told myself that I was happy , that I was free at last . |
| 13 | I 'M FREE AT LAST ! |
| 14 | ‘ So you were free at last ! ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I was free at last , ’ Miss Honey said . |
| 16 | Abraham Serfaty , one of the longest-serving prisoners of conscience in the Arab world , is free at last . |
| 17 | My chains were broken , and I was free at last ! |
| 18 | Chiang-Kai-Shek and Franco dead , Angola independent , Vietnam free at last … |
| 19 | Although as she changed from bus to bus she was free at last of the accusing voices , she had time for a number of second thoughts , wishing in particular that she had put on other clothes , and had had her hair cut . |
| 20 | I almost connived to be free at last |
| 21 | Things were getting interesting at last , Lacuna was dumbstruck , and no-one except her was looking at anything except the screens . |
| 22 | I 'm warm at last . |
| 23 | Wedded at last , Oldfield and his new wife waved goodbye . |
| 24 | ‘ What do you mean , trouble ? ’ asked John , completely serious at last . |
| 25 | Liza , while delighted at last to be in the company of Freddie Nash for so long a stretch , was nevertheless sorry to have to share him with this senior fellow officer , however much she had hitherto enjoyed driving Brigadier Smithson . |
| 26 | She was glad at last to have a use for information from Robert : it justified her relationship with him and her decision to press ahead with the case . |
| 27 | The novel opens with the sentence : ‘ I shall soon be quite redundant at last despite of all , as redundant as you after queue and as totally predictable , information-content zero ’ ( 5 ) . |
| 28 | Judith got married at last in February 1616 . |
| 29 | It took some time , and no little resolution , before the tightly curling mass hung round her face tangle-free at last , and she could crawl wearily into bed . |
| 30 | His salary of 300 a year was adequate to his needs but the greater reward was in being a full-time Fascist at last . |