Example sentences of "[verb] they [prep] 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 | 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 . |
3 | 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 ’ . |
4 | I found them at last . |
5 | Manchester United pipped them in last season 's Rumbelows Cup semi-final thriller and could pay for it today . |
6 | But he had locked them in last night and he had done so on orders from the Gruagach so they did not dare rely on him . |
7 | I must have bloody done so , because they both produced contracts and five or six witnesses who swore that , although I was completely paralytic , I signed them on last Monday night at the Duck and Forceps . |
8 | Thus it fell to one of the rank-and-file to make a lucky find that brought them at last to the downs : and probably saved a life or two ; for they could hardly have spent the night in the open , either on or under the hill , without being attacked by some enemy or other . |
9 | True , they had been vassals of China for nine long centuries — but had n't their hearts " like iron and stone " enabled them at last to throw off the Chinese yoke when the Tang dynasty crumbled ? |
10 | oh I 'll have to have look down there then , cos we buy 'em , now where do we get 'em from now ? , er Co-Op we got 'em from last time did n't we ? |
11 | I thought further of the great fears that the rich must possess , of misfortunes that might reduce them at last to rejoin the human race . |
12 | He had not forgotten , either , the story Bartolomeo Zorzi had regaled them with last night , and which he supposed had now been repeated to Nicholas . |
13 | I suppose that 's as good a reason as any for changing them after last year : - ) Especially that blue Chelsea-like thing . |
14 | The Blackmen made their way down Lower Ormeau to the city centre , where they connected with buses to take them to Last Saturday marches elsewhere in the province . |
15 | No cos I did n't know you wanted them till last week did I ? |
16 | Have they at last had their day ? |