Example sentences of "do at last " in BNC.

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1 I was bored with it long ago , and so relieved to know it is really done at last . ’ )
2 ‘ It 's a relief to know that something positive is being done at last , ’ says Karen .
3 He felt better than he had for a while , with hard work aching in his bones and the knowledge that he had decided what he must do at last .
4 And when she did at last enter the music room — through the door from the arboretum — she found herself a seat at the back , at the end of a row .
5 Whatever their errors — and they had been considerable — the Bolsheviks did at last establish some measure of order that allowed some recovery from the attrition of the years .
6 Tullibardine , far more cautious , was reluctant even to cross to the mainland and when they did at last set sail they suffered the usual Jacobite bad luck .
7 When Delia Sutherland did at last ring it was three weeks after their meeting and he was proved right .
8 Just as they were leaving she did at last catch sight of some friends from school .
9 However , at Canto 106/753–54 ( there is a brief allusion at 104/745 to the mosaics at Monreale ) , we do at last find a Sicilian allusion in the context of writing that we can recognize as distinguished :
10 When faster music does at last arrive for the ‘ Magic Carillon ’ and the ‘ Infernal Dance , ’ its energy splutters ineffectually on the back burner .
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