Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] at last " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Sam and Frodo struggle on in Mordor , they come on a streamlet , ‘ the last remains , maybe , of some sweet rain gathered from sunlit seas , but ill-fated to fall at last upon the walls of the Black Land and wander fruitless down into the dust ’ . |
| 2 | This should make it possible to see at last what are the key influences when supply as well as demand-side elements have been included . |
| 3 | ‘ And very pleasant to meet at last the famous foreign correspondent . |
| 4 | The free market philosophy set in train by Mrs Thatcher when she became Prime Minister in 1979 has at last caught up with milk , writes MAGNUS GRIMOND |
| 5 | Factota Limited had at last found its feet . |
| 6 | After several false starts , it would appear that viable turboprop conversions of the Douglas DC-3 have at last come about and two companies are actively campaigning to take a slice of the market . |
| 7 | The famous letter from the archbishop of Rheims to Baldwin V of Flanders , praising him for his activities in draining and ditching the coastal areas ( presumably after the Dunkirk inundation of 1014–42 had at last subsided ) is explicit evidence of an interest in agricultural expansion . |
| 8 | Even where the debtor is perfectly solvent , and sure to pay at last , this is often so . |
| 9 | Harry had Mossop drop him off at Brockenhurst station , where he commenced the journey back to Swindon , happy to find himself alone among anonymous travellers , able to concentrate at last on all the implications of what he had learned . |
| 10 | Parsys Ltd has at last been able to follow up the statements of intent it issued over a year ago with the formal announcement of its Inmos Ltd T9000 Transputer-based SN9000 series parallel computers . |
| 11 | Parsys Ltd has at last been able to follow up the statements of intent it issued over a year ago with the formal announcement of its T9000-based SN9000 series parallel computers . |
| 12 | Rohmer snatched his hand quickly away from Gilbert 's mouth , staggering back to his feet and watching in awe as Gilbert was able to scream at last : a naked shriek of terror . |
| 13 | At the Farnborough Air Show Gulfstream Aerospace formally launched its Gulfstream V long-range business jet , first mooted at last year 's National Business Aircraft Convention . |
| 14 | A hard-working Society member , for many years a member of the National Display Team and nore recently of the Surrey and Sussex team , she has been putting the latter through their paces for ‘ In the Pink ’ , the ball item first performed at last year 's Reunion . |
| 15 | This represents a reversal of the previous US policy , as former President Bush refused to sign the treaty when it was first proposed at last year 's Earth summit in Rio [ see ED 59/60 ] . |
| 16 | 1 think he would have been amused rather than otherwise at finding his own dishes reappearing as specialities of the starry restaurants of the 1970s , and pleased that reforms in the matter of lighter meals and more logical sauce and vegetable cookery which he had preached in the 1930s have at last been put into practice . |
| 17 | PRESSURE from individuals countrywide has at last enabled the matter of Vulcan XH558 to be brought into the new Parliamentary session . |
| 18 | Each ship is built for the coronation of the ruler and on his or her death bears them off to the Isle of the Dead to rest at last with the ancient rulers of Ulthuan . |