Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [prep] last " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was in the stale stink of the sports hall at Pont Llanfraith leisure centre that he at last looked like a loser : hands thrust deep in the pockets of his best suit , face set solid with emotion , like a football manager who has just lost the Cup Final . |
| 2 | It was in Bordeaux , when they crawled through the traffic to the docks , that he at last met Foley . |
| 3 | I have meant to write to you a hundred times during the last three weeks but at all hours of the day I have been busied with teaching and beating and supervising footballings until when at last after all the animals were caged up and I at last had some peace , I have been too sad & too weary to write anything . |
| 4 | He flung his head to one side and muttered something , his face was twisted up ; he pushed himself away and fell out through the entrance and on to his knees , and she sat down on the floor for her legs felt weak and the wounded one was throbbing painfully , and she crawled over to Sycorax and lay down beside her and sobbed hot , dry grief until she at last fell asleep . |
| 5 | The myriad cells of the brain are like the shells where pearls are born but incomparably finer , and in these cells the ideas sleep through time , and are cut and polished and made perfect and they at last enter a crucible where the new crystal is reborn and is grown . |
| 6 | Burden plodded through the rain from estate agent to estate agent and he at last found Moat Hall , listed in the books of a small firm on the outskirts of the town . |
| 7 | They also agreed that the Scandinavian army would be given tribute , and it at last occupied London , thus gaining in peace what it had never gained in war . |
| 8 | Both players missed the 17 fairway to the right with Wilson lying in the more favourable position it looked like he at last might take the lead but using all his experience McCarroll succeeded on the green for a half . |
| 9 | If he at last comes to the conclusion that he must stand firm next time , he will need an iron determination , for it will be a long tussle ( see page 60 ) |
| 10 | And what about last month 's newsletter , that emotive nonsense about the midnight trains of death trundling silently through the northern suburbs of London ? |
| 11 | And what about last year 's winner Party Politics . |
| 12 | This was an appointment which I had repeatedly put off but which at last I was being forced to keep . |
| 13 | This case was so complex and difficult that it filled many books of written record and there was so much opposing evidence that it was difficult to get at the truth , but he at last clarified everything and settled it with such skill and wisdom that all commended his extreme cleverness . |
| 14 | After we at last say ‘ goodbye ’ to Funchal , turn right for Garajau ( so called by the island 's discoverers because of the large number of garajaus — terns — which nest there ) . |
| 15 | It was , for all that , quite a struggle for Ballesteros before he at last got his game together over the closing holes for a halfway total of 143 , two ahead of Olazabal , who was one over par for the 36 holes . |
| 16 | It cost pounds in 1946 , but when I at last got it , I could write underwater . |
| 17 | And it must have been the fever , Isabel decided a long time later , when she at last had time to sit down and rest . |
| 18 | His pantomime became most articulate when we at last reached the two vast geological features which mark the gateway to Torajaland . |
| 19 | When we at last learned his name , we had not heard of him at all . |
| 20 | I have known you always , it seems , and when we at last met I felt the air between us stir as if you too knew . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I 've got a research grant , ’ he explains to the man sitting next to him , who is wearing a dark grey lightweight non-iron suit , with a pale pink shirt and polka dotted silk tie , as they at last climb out through the heat haze , and undo their seat belts . |
| 22 | There was just feeling , wild and deep , intense pleasure that even bordered on pain , and Maggie 's head was on his shoulder , her eyes locked with his when he at last raised his head and looked down at her bewitched face . |
| 23 | When he at last looked away from her , she felt as though she had been seared to the soul by the scathing dismissal in his eyes . |
| 24 | But even as he at last turned and , more like a conjurer than ever , whipped the cloth from the object on the table , which turned out to be a saucepan containing water scooped from the shattered font , the first heavy drops began to drum on the altar table ; and while the Padre was saying : " Hope Mary Ellen , I baptize thee In the name of the Father and of the Son , and of the Holy Ghost , Amen , " the Collector , forgetting that he had only just renounced an interest in the vain pomp and glory of the world , thought crossly : " That wo n't do the Louis XVI table any good at all . " |
| 25 | In its place , as he at last began to carefully , cautiously move inside her , came waves of wondrous , heart-stopping pleasure , so that in the final seconds before some internal eruption emptied her brain and dizzied her senses , she gouged her nails unthinkingly into his back , and wrapped her legs around him in unthinking , mindless surrender … |