Example sentences of "he at last " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | So got rid of him at last , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , and went in to the glass . |
| 2 | I 'm glad to meet him at last . ’ |
| 3 | A conducted tour of the house by the whole family , brought him at last to the top floor where his bedroom was proudly displayed , which , though huge and filled with awesome furniture of hideous elaboration , impressed him less than the meticulous care with which his soldier servant — batman was apparently a naughty word in the Guards — had unpacked his belongings and laid all essentials neatly in the right places . |
| 4 | Every time she saw him again after an absence she stood aside humbly , expecting him at last to have reached the age when she was an embarrassment , expecting him to shuffle his feet and colour and do no more than extend a cool hand , and she would have held none of this against him . |
| 5 | ‘ Ah , Thiercelin , ’ said Epitot , spotting him at last . |
| 6 | When she woke up , she found she was at home with him at last . ’ |
| 7 | … he might be young , lonely and not a little bewildered , but the way was clear before him at last ; he had taken his orders and been given the pass word , he could win through . |
| 8 | And Creggan followed her helpless gaze , out past the bars to the great sky itself and it seemed that direction came suddenly to him at last . |
| 9 | In the half-light that was not yet day , roadside trees could conceal could even be — the dreaded pursuers , caught up with him at last . |
| 10 | He had no idea , for the letter forced him at last to admit to himself that he knew nothing about his son , that he had lost touch with him , had allowed him over the years to drift further and further away so that now they were virtual strangers . |
| 11 | Marion searched for him in the crowded room , and found him at last , talking to Sue 's dad near the window . |
| 12 | He would be rid of him at last . |
| 13 | ‘ It 's heart-warming , ’ volunteered Mr Kronweiser , ‘ that justice will be done to him at last . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ It 's lovely , ’ she answered him at last , in a brisk , matter-of-fact tone that concealed , she hoped , all that she was feeling . |
| 15 | He continued firmly , and Faye relaxed a little , as if half daring to believe him at last . |
| 16 | She saw him at last , but she did n't signal back , she clutched her bag and froze , staring , and the man beside her turned round . |
| 17 | You went to find him — did n't you ? — for his creditors have caught up with him at last . |
| 18 | She looked at him at last , with such obvious disgust that de Raimes ’ face darkened . |
| 19 | Her scorn stung him at last . |
| 20 | He was just over three hours late to meet his guide , locating him at last on the edge of a ruck of Army drivers , forlorn in Air Force blue . |
| 21 | She nodded slightly , and he bent his head to give her a kiss which was meant to be fleeting , but which went on and on until they were breathless and shaken when he put her away from him at last . |
| 22 | His mouth met hers and her shocked little gasp turned to a moan of hunger as she closed her eyes and kissed him at last , at last , and the brandy glass fell from her hands , shattering at their feet as her arms went around his neck , her mouth opening hungrily beneath his , her hands in his black hair , her body pressing against his as they clung together with intolerable necessity , unaware of the fragments of glass they trampled as Damian pressed her tighter , tighter until there was not an inch between their bodies . |
| 23 | Today though Her Majesty 's ambassador to Moscow visited Maxat the horse and announced that a home has been found for him at last in the Queen 's household Cavalry . |
| 24 | After several attempts he got him at last on a bad telephone line . |
| 25 | Burden plodded through the rain from estate agent to estate agent and he at last found Moat Hall , listed in the books of a small firm on the outskirts of the town . |
| 26 | On the other hand , he at last gains well-deserved riches and a life of comfort . |
| 27 | It was , for all that , quite a struggle for Ballesteros before he at last got his game together over the closing holes for a halfway total of 143 , two ahead of Olazabal , who was one over par for the 36 holes . |
| 28 | It was in the stale stink of the sports hall at Pont Llanfraith leisure centre that he at last looked like a loser : hands thrust deep in the pockets of his best suit , face set solid with emotion , like a football manager who has just lost the Cup Final . |
| 29 | It seemed to him that he at last had a friend . |
| 30 | After speeding across the moors and winding through woodland he at last found her and together they flowed slowly as one out into the Hamoaze . |