Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] at last " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Yes , ’ she admitted slowly at last , ‘ I suppose I was shocked … the truth was very different from what I 'd imagined . ’ |
| 2 | Lord Halifax and the other grand residents got us booted out at last . |
| 3 | He drew back at last . |
| 4 | When they drew apart at last Travis carried her to the nearest armchair , cradling her across his lap . |
| 5 | ‘ Well at least you got through at last , ’ said Carrington . |
| 6 | At present we 're spending much of our time at the hospital , as a visitor — because our mother 's turned up at last . |
| 7 | Things seemed to be looking up at last , ’ she says . |
| 8 | ‘ This is profanation , ’ he said harshly , looking up at last . |
| 9 | But when Fleury came back at last and told him how they were faring in the Residency , Harry knew he would have to take the risk . |
| 10 | They came out at last and Haile Selassie went forward under a crimson canopy to show himself to his people . |
| 11 | Guillamon asked hopefully at last . |
| 12 | When the cheers and the clapping had died down at last , Don Mini stood up to make a speech . |
| 13 | " All right then , Mr Dass ? " the boy said , going away at last . |
| 14 | Her patience paid off at last when she heard Miss Hardbroom tell the girls to pack up their books , and after much clattering and bustling , the door closed and the laboratory fell silent . |
| 15 | We arrived home at last on April 13th , 1702 , and I saw my dear wife and children again . |
| 16 | Experts from 24 countries met in Trondheim , Norway , in May under the auspices of the UN Environment Programme ( UNEP ) to discuss implementation of the biodiversity treaty drawn up at last year 's Earth Summit in Rio . |
| 17 | Well , that Arthur turned up at last and the vicar married them , but afterwards me sister let Arthur know just 'ow she felt , she chucked the whole weddin' cake at 'im , then 'er bokey an' then a full bottle of port . |
| 18 | ‘ You get people in tears coming into the pub just because they have got here at last . |
| 19 | Newton Aycliffe after disappointing recently at last returned to winning form with a 3–0 win over relegation candidates Usworth Village . |
| 20 | As we have , therefore , travelled together through so many pages , let us behave to one another like fellow-travellers in a stage coach , who have passed several days in the company of each other : and who , notwithstanding any bickerings or little animosities which may have occurred on the road , generally make up at last , and mount for the last time into their vehicle with cheerfulness and good humour ; since after this one stage , it may possibly happen to us , as it commonly happens to them , never to meet more . |
| 21 | Donald McCulloch came back from ‘ the reel of Ballechin' long after his mother , and when he got up at last next morning , the cold porridge had been thrown out to the hens . |
| 22 | Thomas got up at last from his new place in the middle of the table , which he had quite liked because it had leg access to a rung where he could wriggle his feet when he was bored . |
| 23 | He got up at last and stared out of the window at the empty road and the gravel pits , grey in the dawn light . |
| 24 | After a long approach slog , reaching the crest of a ridge usually means you 're getting somewhere at last . |
| 25 | FIGURE 4 I 'm getting somewhere at last and feel quite happy . |
| 26 | ‘ Do you know , ’ the Doctor said , ‘ I rather think we 're getting somewhere at last . ’ |
| 27 | Convinced that he was getting somewhere at last in his search for admissible evidence , Shaughnessy now turned to several other lines of inquiry . |
| 28 | Was she getting somewhere at last ? |
| 29 | The cones are now all flowing with pitch , and my hands are soon so covered with it that I can not easily cast down my booty when I would , it sticks to my fingers so ; and when I get down at last and have picked them up , I can not touch my basket with such hands but carry it on my arm , nor can I pick up my coat which I have taken off unless with my teeth — or else I kick it up and catch it on my arm . |
| 30 | When , worn down at last , he mentioned a man who lived as far away as Prudhoe , the polite picked up a young fellow known as Billy the Badger , which apparently had nothing to do with his poaching activities , but was given him because he always wore a white muffler , the ends tucked into his trouser tops , and on Sundays , when he wore his best , which was a black coat and trousers , his pointed face above this ensemble roughly depicted the night creature of the woods . |