Example sentences of "[pron] finally " in BNC.
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| 1 | The burlesquing of the debate over this issue does not simply lie in the Nun 's Priest 's professions of inability to cope with such learned speculations : or in his finally declaring the problem irrelevant : Learned in-joking on one of the authorities on the subject of freewill and providence , Boethius , is also found in the fox 's ability to refer to Boethius ' book on music ( 3293 – 4 ) and the fact that the fox breaks into Chauntecleer 's yard " " By heigh ymaginacioun forncast " " , " Foreseen by High Imagination " ( 3217 ) . |
| 2 | She felt almost traumatised by the revelation of just how much she really did want him to make love to her combined with his ruthless words about marriage , then his callous statements about what a loose little floozy he thought she was — and his finally saying it straight out : ‘ Do n't tell me you 're a virgin ! ’ with horror in his eyes . |
| 3 | Happily , my finally getting to meet him coincides with the release of one of Morrissey 's great records ( they seem to alternate quite evenly with duff ones ) , so there 's no awkward rub between the fan 's loyalty and the critic 's ‘ responsibility ’ to the ‘ truth ’ . |
| 4 | When someone finally did ask , How are you two ? |
| 5 | It is very easy when someone finally opens their filter sufficiently to say ‘ I feel angry about such and such ’ or ‘ I feel fearful ’ to turn around and tell them why a Christian should not feel that way . |
| 6 | ‘ Well then , Du Camp , ’ someone finally suggested with a little impatience , ‘ what about our dear Gustave ? ’ |
| 7 | I bring the conversation round to our prisoners , but he does n't know where they were taken , or what we might do when someone finally comes . |
| 8 | I finally made it into Webber Douglas where I finally realised that this was where I belonged . |
| 9 | I finally made it into Webber Douglas where I finally realised that this was where I belonged . |
| 10 | Fear that when I finally go in and face it , ready to start , the old revulsion will rise up in me again . |
| 11 | My illness kept me out of action for a fortnight so it was fully three weeks after the demise of my job before I finally went down to my local Department of Employment offices and ‘ signed on ’ . |
| 12 | I finally managed to get to where the directions led me . |
| 13 | When I finally got through to Taff to enquire about what sort of night he had had , and if there had been many casualties during the barrage , his reply was rather matter of fact . |
| 14 | It was 4.30 a.m. when I finally said my farewell to the French family and their very charming daughter . |
| 15 | The snow is much worse as I finally move out , and the only consolation for the time it has taken is being alone , and arriving late so that the others have already begun on the tent and wood collecting . |
| 16 | When I finally found him he looked for all the world like a clown . |
| 17 | I 'd never driven a van in my life but I managed to drive it from the East End to the West End , which I found a feat , and then I finally drove it up to Cumberland in the snow which was even more of a feat . |
| 18 | Thirty miles later , I finally reach the counter and get an opportunity to order my can of warm lager . |
| 19 | A few months after his death I finally was able to write an elegy for my father , ‘ died 21st January , 1958 ’ , which is the final poem in The Prodigal Son . |
| 20 | Later , Broderick admits that he was drawing on his own feelings about the death of his actor seven years ago , just as his career was taking off ( ‘ He watched everything I did , he was my big influence , and when I finally started to get work , he never got to see it ’ ) . |
| 21 | There was n't room for more than one such space hogger at Barnsdale ; after much agonised indecision I finally could n't resist the bronze-leaved Rodgersia pinnata . |
| 22 | I finally spotted a young man and a girl dressed as she 'd said she would be in shalwar kameez , a short tunic over long trousers , the traditional Muslim attire ; a cool white scarf around her head and a long coat , and luckily it was Yasmin . |
| 23 | Clutching a hot water bottle prepared by Mrs Knelle , I finally and thankfully snuggled into bed . |
| 24 | Dreadful nightmares , when I finally got off to sleep , of men attacking me — like that man who had to cut women on their arms before he could find them desirable . |
| 25 | Having been turned away from two restaurants , rather to my surprise for it was still early evening , I finally secured a table at the Restaurant Français of the Hotel Ambassador in Wenceslas Square . |
| 26 | Goaded by desperation , I finally achieved lift-off . |
| 27 | My wife and I finally decided that moving would be the answer . |
| 28 | May I finally express a wish that readers of this book will enjoy the text , perhaps learn , but most importantly debate and discuss it . |
| 29 | During a mad session I finally made one after two weeks of trying and came down and a guy called Matt said ‘ Yeah you did it at last ’ . |
| 30 | When I finally caught up with my sprinting friend , who was standing innocently taking a swig from his water bottle , the needles on all my body dials were twitching into red . |