Example sentences of "he at last " in BNC.
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| 31 | In the three years that followed , he at last found personal happiness and intellectual fulfilment , and was swiftly transformed into the brilliantly eloquent young man the greater world was soon to know . |
| 32 | If he at last comes to the conclusion that he must stand firm next time , he will need an iron determination , for it will be a long tussle ( see page 60 ) |
| 33 | When , on 1 January 1766 , the Old Pretender died in Rome , aged 77 , his elder son assumed the title of Charles III and six years later he at last married , but his wife bore no children . |
| 34 | But even as he at last turned and , more like a conjurer than ever , whipped the cloth from the object on the table , which turned out to be a saucepan containing water scooped from the shattered font , the first heavy drops began to drum on the altar table ; and while the Padre was saying : " Hope Mary Ellen , I baptize thee In the name of the Father and of the Son , and of the Holy Ghost , Amen , " the Collector , forgetting that he had only just renounced an interest in the vain pomp and glory of the world , thought crossly : " That wo n't do the Louis XVI table any good at all . " |
| 35 | When the garrison had begun to give up hope that he would act , he at last did something . |
| 36 | They returned in March 1962 ; he at last finished his essay on George Herbert but , before he could start work on a new play , he had to prepare for the press his early graduate thesis on the work of F. H. Bradley . |
| 37 | PLAYER : Lucianus , nephew to the king … usurped by his uncle and shattered by his mother 's incestuous marriage … loses his reason … throwing the court into turmoil and disarray as he alternates between bitter melancholy and unrestricted lunacy … staggering from the suicidal ( A pose ) to the homicidal ( Here he kills " POLONIUS " ) … he at last confronts his mother and in a scene of provocative ambiguity — ( A somewhat oedipal embrace ) begs her to repent and recant — ( He springs up , still talking . ) |
| 38 | Near Medina he at last found Ibrahim , who declined to discuss politics . |
| 39 | Returning to his parents in Scarborough , he continued to train in hotel management until in 1925 he at last defied the family and enrolled as a drama student at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London , where two years later he won the gold medal and was immediately given his start in the professional theatre by one of his teachers , the Russian director Theodore Komisarjevsky [ q.v . ] . |
| 40 | Only on his way home at lunchtime did he at last rouse himself enough to make a detour , and stop by at his brother 's apartment and invite Franco to come home with him for lunch . |
| 41 | There was just feeling , wild and deep , intense pleasure that even bordered on pain , and Maggie 's head was on his shoulder , her eyes locked with his when he at last raised his head and looked down at her bewitched face . |
| 42 | When he at last looked away from her , she felt as though she had been seared to the soul by the scathing dismissal in his eyes . |
| 43 | In the third year , he at last had a role that matched his skills , successfully designing graphics panels for use in the computer control of switch gear . |
| 44 | This case was so complex and difficult that it filled many books of written record and there was so much opposing evidence that it was difficult to get at the truth , but he at last clarified everything and settled it with such skill and wisdom that all commended his extreme cleverness . |
| 45 | It was in Bordeaux , when they crawled through the traffic to the docks , that he at last met Foley . |
| 46 | In its place , as he at last began to carefully , cautiously move inside her , came waves of wondrous , heart-stopping pleasure , so that in the final seconds before some internal eruption emptied her brain and dizzied her senses , she gouged her nails unthinkingly into his back , and wrapped her legs around him in unthinking , mindless surrender … |
| 47 | Both players missed the 17 fairway to the right with Wilson lying in the more favourable position it looked like he at last might take the lead but using all his experience McCarroll succeeded on the green for a half . |
| 48 | Scores of one and 25 in the first Test at Calcutta were in line with his dismal average of 17 , but in the first innings of the second Test in Madras , he at last showed signs of mastering the Indian spinners . |
| 49 | This was supposed to have been the event where he at last assumed his rightful position at the summit of the athletics world following his nightmare at the Olympics . |