Example sentences of "[noun sg] finally " in BNC.
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| 1 | All this was to seem academic by the Seventies when the boom finally stopped and the dream future of abundance and leisure popped like a rosy soap bubble . |
| 2 | Prokofiev 's solemn and doom-laden funeral march finally stamps the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet because it has already echoed through each stage in the unfolding of the plot . |
| 3 | Mr de Klerk 's announcement is being seen as recognition finally that the South African government will have to deal with the black majority through the leadership of the ANC if civil war is not to wipe the republic off the face of Africa . |
| 4 | SO BBC1 's Trainer finally galloped off into the knacker 's yard , leaving nothing but the memory of bad acting and even worse scripts in its wake . |
| 5 | When the tape finally ran out the eight members present were silent with shock . |
| 6 | The car finally ground to a halt against the remains of a silk stall , a knot of scarves caught around one axle . |
| 7 | The car finally came to a halt outside the house , and Jessamy looked around , a small frown drawing her brows together . |
| 8 | When the car finally came to a halt , she looked straight ahead of her , not daring to look at him . |
| 9 | When the car finally pulled up in St Aldate 's , the young driver opened the rear door and shook Sergeant Lewis awake , failing to notice that the first action of his passenger was to run the forefinger of his left hand slowly along his upper teeth . |
| 10 | A police car finally arrived at the scene and officers spoke to the motorist . |
| 11 | series as the massive warehouse finally While Howard is being put into the Ambulance the press are hounding |
| 12 | Pattie finally called a halt to the relationship 18 months later when Alan , drunk and angry , knocked over the baby in an attempt to attack Pattie . |
| 13 | SAGE FINALLY LAUNCH MAC VERSION OF STERLING +2 |
| 14 | The manifesto Labour finally adopted in the 1983 election paid deference to the wishes of ‘ greens ’ , unilateralists , Irish republicans , homosexuals of both sexes , and feminists . |
| 15 | On Oct. 30 delegations from Israel , Syria , Lebanon and Egypt and a joint Jordanian-Palestinian delegation finally took their seats , amid heavy security , at a negotiating table in Madrid . |
| 16 | She sat with her until the exhaustion of grief finally drove Ana to sleep and silence , then Maggie went to wait for Felipe . |
| 17 | In the face of such resolve the opposition finally collapsed , at any rate for the time being . |
| 18 | Certainly this was the purpose of the protracted and much resented Quo Warranto enquiry into private franchises and liberties , an enquiry which extended from 1274 until 1294 when baronial opposition finally forced its abandonment . |
| 19 | When BA and BCal merged in 1987 , she was determined to become a Concorde pilot and despite stiff opposition finally achieved her goal yesterday . |
| 20 | As the great surge of modernism finally seemed to grind to a halt , artists and public were apparently offered two choices : either to celebrate postmodern confusion , or to turn back to older and more insular traditions . |
| 21 | A determined search finally yielded an old lady in the former Grand Hotel , now a residential and nursing home on the front . |
| 22 | He lay awake through the night wishing he could go home or into the sitting room and watch a horror movie , and then , as the room paled with the threat of day , he drifted into an uneasy sleep , finally waking in full light with a foul taste in his mouth and the disjointed memory of a dream in which he was trapped in a lift dressed in women 's underwear and wondering how to explain it when the fire brigade finally came and rescued him . |
| 23 | With one last defiant surge of power the jeep finally gave up the ghost . |
| 24 | Their innings , though , was marked by a wonderful display from Gooch , his thirty-sixth attempt finally produced a Test century , and it was very much worth waiting for . |
| 25 | That 's not what he thinks would or should happen , the day his lover finally arrives . |
| 26 | The day his lover finally comes home from that other city . |
| 27 | When the famous Marje Proops ' secret lover finally passed away , in his late eighties , he was virtually alone . |
| 28 | McHale was pleased that his side finally moved off the 38-point mark after a three-week wait to break the 40 points barrier . |
| 29 | Leith finally drifted off into a troubled sleep , wondering if there was any greater torment than that of loving unwisely . |
| 30 | She was shaking when his mouth finally drifted away from hers , her heart beating with increased rapidity as he smiled down into her flushed face , gazing intently at her dark-pupilled eyes with their luminous circles of grey iris . |