Example sentences of "when [prep] last " in BNC.
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| 1 | When at last a waiter said ‘ Your table is ready , ’ Sara looked at her watch again and found that it was nine-fifteen . |
| 2 | When at last your gum boots got you , bent double , to the other end you could straighten up to see , again framed in foliage , the mature dream gardens of well-off homeowners , their sumptuous spreads a far cry from the fresh plots of intractable clay that fronted our council houses . |
| 3 | The ironical and fundamental point is that during these post-war years , when international demand for tropical commodities for the first time since 1921 really justified vast investments in the Colonies ; when the Colonies had a huge back-log of demand for essential equipment ; when at last the British government was equipped with power to give or lend considerable sums to top up what the Colonies could afford to invest from their own accumulating surplus ; and when . |
| 4 | When at last he moved away he still combed through the letter as he walked . |
| 5 | When at last they did see him coming they had to follow his slow path from the road , watch him lean his bicycle carefully against the wall under the yew and plod slowly up between the two rows of boxwood . |
| 6 | When at last my number came , I presented myself at the window and asked for a ticket on the 10.05 to Stockholm the next morning . |
| 7 | She felt very strongly that now was the time to start a new phase , when at last her life would be her own . |
| 8 | She told herself not to let negative thoughts take over , but , night after night , her will-power dissolved into helplessness , and when at last she slept , her past life rose before her like a grotesque apparition . |
| 9 | The ringing seemed to go on and on and when at last a voice answered it took Jinny by surprise . |
| 10 | Fortunately , it usually happened that the rejected lover did not go away , and when at last the heroine was free , there he was , waiting still . |
| 11 | When at last it was all over he felt quite sick from the shock . |
| 12 | When at last he came down to Egypt , Joseph showed him all the love and respect that were a father 's due , all the love and respect that Ham had failed so conspicuously to show to Noah . |
| 13 | His tone alone was sufficient to convey as much when at last he said , slowly and very quietly : ‘ Give the kid his jacket , woman ! ’ |
| 14 | When at last he dared to creep from his hiding-place and move on tip-toe up the dark stairs , he had counted to 372 and managed to convince himself that any fate was preferable to having an accident down there amongst the coats . |
| 15 | When at last they are released , they are positively maniacal , and gallop and buck around the paddock twice as much as usual before settling down to eating the grass . |
| 16 | When at last he spoke , the words were spat out in sharp interrogation . |
| 17 | ‘ Aye , ’ said John when at last it was all over , and the final notes had faded away . |
| 18 | City shopkeepers thought this would be disastrous as the last thing that people cooped up in offices all day want to do is to plunge underground when at last they have a chance to get out in the fresh air . |
| 19 | So , when at last I came to a small village with a large church , I decided that perhaps the priest might be the best person to tell me where these prehistoric pagans buried their dead . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | When at last I broke through the lip and parachuted into the void beyond I turned my head and looked behind . |
| 22 | When at last they came to the lower end of Spring Street , Agnes stopped and , looking from one to the other , she said , ‘ This is where I live ; I 'll be all right now . |
| 23 | When at last the government saw how matters were developing , it began to reproach industry for failing to respond to its ‘ anti-inflationary ’ measures . |
| 24 | It was my home for many months , so much so that when at last I was discharged , I was loath to leave . |
| 25 | I knew that when at last I was demobilised from the Waaf I would have to return to my peacetime occupation as a secretary in London , for the simple reason that my employers had been paying me my full salary all the time I had been in the Forces , that is , making up the difference between my Waaf pay and what I would have been earning with them . |
| 26 | Here was I , struggling to free a walnut from its convoluted enclosure , exalting when at last I managed to obtain a whole half rather than a handful of shards , while in the next room was a packet replete with whole halves . |
| 27 | When at last we got home , I would gently carry them indoors and put them into their beds , still asleep . |
| 28 | When at last the shrill voice was silent the Trapper said : ‘ She says the boy may go but you are to stay here . ’ |
| 29 | When at last she gained some independence by taking a job which gave her some income of her own , she suddenly put her foot down . |
| 30 | But when at last the planes turned away and headed for land , the order was given for all passengers to get below . |