Example sentences of "last a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At last a story was circulated by a sailor , George Hassel , who swore a statement before the Mayor of Liverpool that he had met , in the town of Beverley , Massachusetts , a youth known as Jeffrey , who otherwise styled himself ‘ The Governor of Sombrero ’ . |
| 2 | He struck a fine short iron over the bunker and right into the heart of the green at the 12th , and at last a putt found its mark from perhaps eight feet . |
| 3 | At last a smile began to pull at the folds in Sir Charles 's face , as if his cheeks really were wallets and his smile was going through them , looking for cash , then the smile turned to laughter , it pushed between his teeth , it was dry and rhythmic , it sounded uncannily like someone counting a stack of dollar bills . |
| 4 | At last a smile for Grandma Brigitte |
| 5 | At last a man with silvery smiling eyes in a brown face introduced himself as Luiz Santana , husband of Clem 's twin , Charity , and took Leonora into the dining-room when Clem was called away to great more arrivals . |
| 6 | At last a pick-up truck came bumping up the track , containing Giovanna 's fat and apparently unsatisfactory husband and a detachment of villagers , including the old men , Molly was sure , who had sat on the wall by the petrol pumps mocking her . |
| 7 | ‘ No baby and no broken heart ? ’ she quipped , hidden hands clenching , the last a lie . |
| 8 | Half a mile up the hill , spirits were also high in the home of Eddie Duckworth , that plump , much-loved , avuncular manager of Pitts and Harley , newly elected President of the Chamber of Commerce , who had faith that at last a government had been elected that would put a stop to inflation , high interest rates , rocketing domestic and industrial rates , shameful capitulation to the unions , centralized bureaucratic planning , and the consequent decay of the manufacturing industries : the writing is on the wall at the Town Hall , he told his guests , as their glasses were refilled with Oake and Nephews ' Beaujolais . |
| 9 | I HAVE burned the midnight oil scanning the arid wastes of computer programming manuals , but at last a publisher has come up with a series of inexpensive , factually sound but palatable titles which aim to introduce the beginner to the fun that can be had with calculators , computers and cassette recorders . |
| 10 | He consulted a succession of popes on marriage law , on priestly mores , on ordinations , on liturgy , on whether nuns might wash each other 's feet , and on the eating of bacon fat , the last a subject about which the Fathers had remained curiously silent . |
| 11 | The ringing seemed to go on and on and when at last a voice answered it took Jinny by surprise . |
| 12 | She watched through a crack and at last a nurse came out of the tiny office and went to the lift . |
| 13 | We successfully unhooked her and on the scales she came in at 13lb 4oz , not a monster cat , rather a kitten , but nevertheless a most satisfying experience ; at last a cat on the bank . |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . |
| 15 | I had just been reading in the Daily Minute about the string of beatings and manslaughters in Rosalind Court : the night before last a Jap computer expert and a German dentist had been found in a parking lot with their faces stomped off . |
| 16 | Agnes dived into one of the last a pharmacist 's with tall free-standing shelves . |
| 17 | At last a rider could be seen across the fields . |
| 18 | On top of Michel 's last a piece of paper had been clipped . |
| 19 | At last a car drew up . |
| 20 | At last a technology that is like our dreams . |
| 21 | When at last a waiter said ‘ Your table is ready , ’ Sara looked at her watch again and found that it was nine-fifteen . |
| 22 | The city had been besieged for months but at last a breach had been forced in one of the walls . |
| 23 | At last a city official , wearing the blue and mustard livery of the Corporation , decided the burnt-out tenement had been sufficiently destroyed and we were allowed to pass on . |
| 24 | Be aware of current public opinion — the writer who advertised a vacuum cleaner with the words : " At last a turbo for women drivers " was running a grave risk of alienating women . |
| 25 | At long last a hardbound volume of the history of his works has appeared — by the man himself ! |
| 26 | First impressions are of a compact unit , encased in a heavy-duty rubber wrist pod , with clearly readable figures on its LCD display and one actuating button underneath the screen — at last a move away from water activated ‘ touch-type ’ buttons . |
| 27 | Of course , at last a train got him and killed him in a horrible way . |
| 28 | Then at last a cheer went up as the first portions of the ‘ bicentenary pie ’ were served to the 50,000 people who presented their £1 tickets . |
| 29 | At last a doctor arrived who actually knew what to do . |