Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] at last " in BNC.
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| 1 | The girl cried out in alarm at the sound of Rohmer 's shout , swinging back to see them at last . |
| 2 | Glaring from one to the other as they stood on either side of the bed , she said crossly to Lucy , ‘ So you 've brought him to see me at last . |
| 3 | It is a moment that is likely to reshape the strategic thinking of traditional , print-on-paper publishers , perhaps encouraging them at last to re-define their activities and participate more extensively in information media of all kinds . |
| 4 | Men often ‘ raise questions , and multiply disputes , which never coming to any clear resolution , are proper only to continue and increase their doubts , and to confirm them at last in perfect scepticism ’ . |
| 5 | I found them at last . |
| 6 | ‘ You must be Mr Sachs , what a pleasure it is to meet you at last . ’ |
| 7 | It 's good to meet you at last . |
| 8 | ‘ Paige , how lovely to meet you at last , ’ Rose McKenna pronounced warmly , holding out her hands so that Paige had to place hers in them , and was drawn down to have a kiss pressed to either cheek . |
| 9 | I 'm glad to meet him at last . ’ |
| 10 | It was in the boot-and-brushing room that Nicandra found her at last — after a search through the larders , the dairy , and the empty laundry , its warm steam now subsided into a vaporous chill . |
| 11 | Marion searched for him in the crowded room , and found him at last , talking to Sue 's dad near the window . |
| 12 | Maria was silent , digesting it , slightly incredulous but forced to accept it at last . |
| 13 | What would he do with Harry 's body when he found it at last , but toss it back again to go downstream as he willed it to go , and leave its poor slender bones scattered all along the banks of Severn without a name or a resting-place ? |
| 14 | back down the road … and further Solar Flair is still going … they 've cracked it at last … and are up to forty five miles an hour … next stop is Adelaide the city that closes its streets to grand prix cars … today … the roads are open and the crowds out to welcome them in … |
| 15 | ‘ He 's spending a few days with Maria Luisa in Valencia on the mainland , ’ Fernando told her at last . |
| 16 | I suppose it 's a satisfying thing — to know you 've done it at last and it 's all there , nice and clean . |
| 17 | CARL Fogarty has done it at last ! |
| 18 | Swindon Town have done it at last , and won a league match . |
| 19 | ‘ Got you at last , ’ the Headmaster said putting his hand on Endill 's shoulder . |
| 20 | They 've got you at last ’ |
| 21 | They 've got you at last ! ’ |
| 22 | Anyway — now that I 've got you at last … |
| 23 | Her father pressed a kiss to her forehead , and smiled , releasing her at last . |
| 24 | Releasing her at last , he stepped back . |
| 25 | Ah , thought Forest , I 've got it at last ! |
| 26 | I do n't know what 's happened lately — the machine has either taken notice and chosen to behave or I have mastered it at last , because I have managed to finish two sweaters this week ! |
| 27 | She heard me at last . |
| 28 | Every time she saw him again after an absence she stood aside humbly , expecting him at last to have reached the age when she was an embarrassment , expecting him to shuffle his feet and colour and do no more than extend a cool hand , and she would have held none of this against him . |
| 29 | His mouth met hers and her shocked little gasp turned to a moan of hunger as she closed her eyes and kissed him at last , at last , and the brandy glass fell from her hands , shattering at their feet as her arms went around his neck , her mouth opening hungrily beneath his , her hands in his black hair , her body pressing against his as they clung together with intolerable necessity , unaware of the fragments of glass they trampled as Damian pressed her tighter , tighter until there was not an inch between their bodies . |
| 30 | He was just over three hours late to meet his guide , locating him at last on the edge of a ruck of Army drivers , forlorn in Air Force blue . |