Example sentences of "[verb] [coord] [prep] last " in BNC.
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1 | Frantic parents continued to hassle and swear and at last the stoat grew tired and bounded off into the cover of a pine tree windbreak . |
2 | Yes and eventually Shirley and I thought , well I mean , we spent weeks grouting , we grouted and we grouted and still water was coming through and we grouted and at last it seemed to be dry and the man came and did the re-artexing on the insurance and I had wa new wallpaper put up , for which I paid extra because he only allowed eight pounds a roll , the insurance company only pays eight pounds a roll and I had eleven pound wallpaper and a border and having got the whole thing up the s the patches have appeared again ! |
3 | It was agreed and at last the meeting ended . |
4 | My store of money began to dwindle but at last I found Le Coq d'Or , a dingy , two-storey building which stood at the mouth of one of the runnels on the far side of the Grand Pont opposite the elaborately carved Notre Dame Cathedral . |
5 | City investors accepted shares on condition that all could be placed but by last night potential buyers had been found for only about half the stake . |
6 | There was a moment when I was convinced I was going to die but at last a long wailing respiration came to my aid and I struggled painfully into a sitting position . |
7 | Still she hesitated and at last he said , ‘ Think about it , talk to your parents and to Jennifer and see what the reaction is . |
8 | Repeat for each stitch to be embroidered and after last stitch of row , bring needle up through stitch below instead of stitch to left ( Fig. 3 ) . |
9 | Somewhere , a camera-bulb flashed and at last he knew who these people were . |