Example sentences of "they at last " in BNC.
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| 1 | The myriad cells of the brain are like the shells where pearls are born but incomparably finer , and in these cells the ideas sleep through time , and are cut and polished and made perfect and they at last enter a crucible where the new crystal is reborn and is grown . |
| 2 | They were thus still thinking in terms of the ‘ numbers game ’ when , about a month later , they at last received ‘ allegations ’ as required under the Northern Ireland ( Emergency Provisions ) Act . |
| 3 | Only in 1689 , the closing date for this study , were they at last given the legal right to conduct their nonconformist worship in their own meeting-houses ( see Chapters 3 and 6 ) . |
| 4 | Have they at last had their day ? |
| 5 | ‘ I 've got a research grant , ’ he explains to the man sitting next to him , who is wearing a dark grey lightweight non-iron suit , with a pale pink shirt and polka dotted silk tie , as they at last climb out through the heat haze , and undo their seat belts . |
| 6 | Promising to return in the evening , they at last donned bright wet-weather clothes and disappeared into the greyness of the early morning , leaving us — mentally exhausted by our struggles with the French language — to begin the serious work of progressing with the arctic fox film . |
| 7 | Inert , mute , untouchable , she seemed uncanny and prodigious to Rosa , who wanted her to protest the hectic fury all around her , to come alive and give a sign , as , below her , the volunteers hauling the lumbering shrine on their backs on poles criss-crossed and tethered grew more obstreperous and howled and the crowd pressed up and obstructed their laborious way ahead ; after three turns around the piazza they at last reached the platform in the middle , only a little distance from the Duomo they had left , and the sweat-streaked bearers put down the skewed tower on which the Madonna stood , and tumbled to their knees . |