Example sentences of "[verb] they 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 | 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 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ? |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Have they at last had their day ? |