Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] at last " in BNC.
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| 1 | This had introduced them to mechanisms which suggested a terminology applicable to their own science making it possible for them at last to give the behaviourists , who had been giving those not of their ilk a hard time , some of their own medicine . |
| 2 | The two worlds of nature and abstraction meet when Stavrogin asks Dasha whether by coming to be his nurse ‘ you hope to set up some aim for me at last ’ . |
| 3 | When Stavrogin , who ‘ poisoned ’ Kirillov , and who also kills himself , wrote that letter to Dasha Shatov asking her to come and be his nurse , his mind wo n't have been bent either on or away from suicide ; he was neutrally wondering whether she hoped ‘ to set up some aim for me at last ’ . |
| 4 | Almost two years after the beer orders went through the House , we are entitled to ask the Minister what good came of them at last . |
| 5 | Have you shipwrecked that crazy boat of yours at last ? " |
| 6 | I 'm pleased I 've managed to get hold of you at last . |
| 7 | It 's good to have news of you at last ! |
| 8 | So got rid of him at last , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , and went in to the glass . |
| 9 | He would be rid of him at last . |
| 10 | I am reminded of the famous poem , by Robert Southey , about the battle of Blenheim , when little Peterkin asks : ’ But what good came of it at last ? ’ |
| 11 | She 's got the hang of it at last Chloe , you 're alright now ! |
| 12 | ‘ We 've got some penicillin for you at last . |
| 13 | Give me two minutes Johnny , and we 'll put it on for you at last ! |
| 14 | ‘ Well , old fellow in the cellarage , ’ she whispered lightly to herself , though the breath was shallow in her throat , ‘ it seems I must speak with you at last . ’ |
| 15 | When she woke up , she found she was at home with him at last . ’ |
| 16 | In the half-light that was not yet day , roadside trees could conceal could even be — the dreaded pursuers , caught up with him at last . |
| 17 | You went to find him — did n't you ? — for his creditors have caught up with him at last . |
| 18 | ‘ Praise from you at last , Peregrine . |
| 19 | … he might be young , lonely and not a little bewildered , but the way was clear before him at last ; he had taken his orders and been given the pass word , he could win through . |
| 20 | She nodded slightly , and he bent his head to give her a kiss which was meant to be fleeting , but which went on and on until they were breathless and shaken when he put her away from him at last . |
| 21 | Today though Her Majesty 's ambassador to Moscow visited Maxat the horse and announced that a home has been found for him at last in the Queen 's household Cavalry . |
| 22 | The girl was glued to the spot , terror-struck , pop-eyed , quivering , knowing for certain that the Day of Judgment had come for her at last . |
| 23 | He made himself say to me at last , after weeks of dithering like a frightened diver on a rock , ‘ D' you think my Jammie will ever go in bed with me ? |
| 24 | Zimberalda … you 've come back to me at last ! ’ she snorts , wiping the tears from her eyes . |
| 25 | ’ Thank goodness I 've got through to you at last . |
| 26 | And Creggan followed her helpless gaze , out past the bars to the great sky itself and it seemed that direction came suddenly to him at last . |
| 27 | ‘ It 's heart-warming , ’ volunteered Mr Kronweiser , ‘ that justice will be done to him at last . ’ |
| 28 | She might even , he suggested , as they went to the stairs , benefit from a quiet winter with her sister to help and think what joy lay ahead with Oreste brought to her at last . |
| 29 | The Doctor turned to her at last . |
| 30 | ‘ Annunziata , are you all right ? ’ asked Julia when the question of dinner was settled , relieved to be able to talk to her at last with reasonable fluency . |