Example sentences of "[verb] it at last " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maria was silent , digesting it , slightly incredulous but forced to accept it at last . |
| 2 | 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 ? |
| 3 | 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 … |
| 4 | I suppose it 's a satisfying thing — to know you 've done it at last and it 's all there , nice and clean . |
| 5 | CARL Fogarty has done it at last ! |
| 6 | Swindon Town have done it at last , and won a league match . |
| 7 | Ah , thought Forest , I 've got it at last ! |
| 8 | 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 ! |
| 9 | Scott heard it at last and looked around , fumbling for the taps , trying to turn off the shower . |
| 10 | My eye followed the light cloud of her smoke , now here , now there , above the plain , according to the devious curves of the stream , but always fainter and farther away , till I lost it at last behind the mitre-shaped hill of the great pagoda ( 6 ) . |
| 11 | Other sentences have a similar type of structure , and tend to end in a similar evocation of vastness and remoteness , as the eye reaches its limit of vision : " under the enormous dome of the sky " ; " the monotonous sweep of the horizon " ; " as if the impassive earth had swallowed her up without an effort , without a tremor " ; " till I lost it at last behind the mitre-shaped hill of the great pagoda " . |
| 12 | Surely he had n't found it at last and with a girl less than half his age , intelligent but uneducated , promiscuous and burdened with an illegitimate child . |
| 13 | During a mad session I finally made one after two weeks of trying and came down and a guy called Matt said ‘ Yeah you did it at last ’ . |
| 14 | ‘ I certainly sha n't speak to her until she starts replying to my letters , ’ said Lord Grubb , cued in so that it was possible to say it at last . |
| 15 | SHABBA DOES IT AT LAST |