Example sentences of "they finally [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just before six o'clock they finally left for the West with Rose 's ma 's warnings ringing in their ears . |
| 2 | For half an hour she lay on the floor in pain before they finally left with a hoard of silverware . |
| 3 | All the same , she felt relieved when , just before five , they finally returned to the villa again and she was able to step out of the boat on to dry land . |
| 4 | The hours burned by on the green screen , and when they finally flopped in Lucy 's living room , sipping brandy , a key turned in the lock and in came the charmingly dishevelled one and only son . |
| 5 | They finally halted in a rough copse of thorn that had lopsided boulders scattered about it and was sheltered from the wind by the long shoulder of a hill . |
| 6 | They finally settled on Dillons in Trafalgar Square … |
| 7 | The threefold improvement they finally settled for was a compromise . |
| 8 | When they finally settled in the branches of a tree there were hordes of them , so many that they looked like fruit overburdening their source ‘ ripe to be plucked . |
| 9 | But after two weeks of going back and fro to the barn they finally decided for some unknown reason that they had had enough . |
| 10 | After 45 minutes they finally emerged from the storm under broken cloud , and then made good time to Rangoon . |
| 11 | That success led the Newmanites further into electoral politics , where they finally emerged in 1979 as the neutral-sounding New Alliance Party . |
| 12 | When they finally stood in front of him , they realized why he had not answered . |
| 13 | The brilliant beams of their torches were like searchlights , swinging wildly for a second , until they finally converged at the back of a container with its door ripped open and lying at a crazy angle . |
| 14 | In 1316 , however , the southern clergy met three times before they finally capitulated towards the end of the year and authorized the collection of a tenth ; even then , it was to be delivered in two moieties , one in 1317 , the other in 1318 . |
| 15 | When they finally arrived at the cathedral , the world held its collective breath and Diana , with her father leaning heavily on her arm , walked with painful slowness down the aisle . |
| 16 | They finally arrived at Lizzy 's ward . |
| 17 | Night fell , and after walking a few more miles down country roads , they finally arrived at an old house standing alone by a river . |
| 18 | By the time they finally arrived in the deserted car park behind the arcade she was trembling from head to foot , racked by every emotion from fear to rage . |