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 | When they drew apart at last Travis carried her to the nearest armchair , cradling her across his lap . |
| 3 | Guillamon asked hopefully at last . |
| 4 | " All right then , Mr Dass ? " the boy said , going away at last . |
| 5 | We arrived home at last on April 13th , 1702 , and I saw my dear wife and children again . |
| 6 | ‘ You get people in tears coming into the pub just because they have got here at last . |
| 7 | Newton Aycliffe after disappointing recently at last returned to winning form with a 3–0 win over relegation candidates Usworth Village . |
| 8 | After a long approach slog , reaching the crest of a ridge usually means you 're getting somewhere at last . |
| 9 | FIGURE 4 I 'm getting somewhere at last and feel quite happy . |
| 10 | ‘ Do you know , ’ the Doctor said , ‘ I rather think we 're getting somewhere at last . ’ |
| 11 | Convinced that he was getting somewhere at last in his search for admissible evidence , Shaughnessy now turned to several other lines of inquiry . |
| 12 | Was she getting somewhere at last ? |
| 13 | The pair cleared the pole and sprang upright at last . |
| 14 | Jean-Paul could feel himself getting hard at last . |
| 15 | The effort began to sap his strength and his muscles quivered as at last he pulled himself over the icy edge . |
| 16 | Perhaps , after four hundred years , it should go home at last ; for , exhibited in a glass case in St. Mary 's Church and with one significant gap , are all the rest of its Books of Homilies . |
| 17 | ‘ Why do you keep staring at me ? ’ she demanded edgily at last . |
| 18 | She had read of Cupid , the little god of love , and of his wicked darts piercing the heart at the moment of understood love , and she had laughed a little at the idea ; but one of them had struck home at last , and she knew that on the two previous occasions when she had previously and disastrously thought herself in love it had not been love at all … |
| 19 | ‘ Did my lovemaking revolt you so much , then ? ’ he demanded roughly at last . |
| 20 | When they went upstairs at last , I stayed on the terrace . |
| 21 | She wanted to go there at last and peep through wrought-iron gates into beautiful gardens . |
| 22 | The girls were able to laugh openly at last without any risk . |
| 23 | so when I got up half past six and I got shaved now at last , gon na go and get ready and pull the curtains back , oh what a of rain , I says oh I says |
| 24 | ‘ I was heartbroken , certainly , ’ Jennifer agreed softly at last , ‘ but it was n't over David leaving . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ I do n't think I really had any doubts about them , ’ she said slowly at last . |
| 26 | ‘ Perhaps three , ’ he said mildly at last , as if he were answering the simplest and most natural of questions . |
| 27 | So Nigel was leaving home at last . |
| 28 | The book had now at last acquired its final title , The Birth of Tragedy , or in full , with qualifying subtitle , The Birth of Tragedy from the Spirit of Music ( Die Geburt der Tragödie aus dem Geiste der Musik ) and on 16 November , under this title , it was accepted . " |
| 29 | It was also able to claim , with confidence , ‘ how many frightful heresies have , within the last few years , run riot in many divers parts of the realm , but have now at last been checked by the providence of the all-good and Almighty God , the singular goodwill of princes , and the vigilance and zeal of the prelates for the Catholic faith , and seem almost extinguished . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Shall I tell the band you 're ill ? ’ she suggested helpfully at last . |