Example sentences of "[conj] [subord] [prep] last " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was my home for many months , so much so that when at last I was discharged , I was loath to leave . |
| 2 | I knew that when at last I was demobilised from the Waaf I would have to return to my peacetime occupation as a secretary in London , for the simple reason that my employers had been paying me my full salary all the time I had been in the Forces , that is , making up the difference between my Waaf pay and what I would have been earning with them . |
| 3 | She told herself not to let negative thoughts take over , but , night after night , her will-power dissolved into helplessness , and when at last she slept , her past life rose before her like a grotesque apparition . |
| 4 | The ringing seemed to go on and on and when at last a voice answered it took Jinny by surprise . |
| 5 | Fortunately , it usually happened that the rejected lover did not go away , and when at last the heroine was free , there he was , waiting still . |
| 6 | Sarah was worried because it was getting late , and when at last she was out of the hospital she started walking quickly towards Clerkenwell , but she had n't gone far before a hackney cab drew up . |
| 7 | On the way home from school that afternoon she began to mull over the various possibilities , and when at last the germ of a brilliant idea hit her , she began to expand on it and lay her plans with the same kind of care the Duke of Wellington had done before the Battle of Waterloo . |
| 8 | Of the two Asian models for Vietnamese independence , China and Japan , China was always more immediate and when at last the Chinese Empire fell to pieces and the Manchu dynasty ended in 1911 , the impact of this revolution was full of promise for Vietnam . |
| 9 | Once , hearing an unaccountable noise in front of him , which ceased on the instant , he kept still for a long time ; and when at last he moved cautiously forward , found Silver crouching behind a tussock of cock's-foot for fear of the sound of his own approach . |
| 10 | And when at last it drifts through the window and fluffs all round his feet and legs , even then he does not let himself be disturbed . |
| 11 | Chroniclers and poets in their embittered criticism of papal initiatives for peace were scarcely less vehement than the lords and commons in parliament , and when at last , in 1378 , an Italian pope was elected , an Englishman at Rome rejoiced because ‘ Previous popes and their cardinals had been greater enemies of the kingdom of England than the king of France himself . ’ |
| 12 | The man went on waiting , almost as if he were teasing Stephen , and when at last he did move , it was suddenly and with a strange dancing skip . |
| 13 | Eventually he pushed his hand inside her brassiere and began kneading one of her breasts , but instead of responding she lay motionless and waited as she always did ; gradually the movements of his hand grew slower , the rhythm of his breathing more regular , and when at last he lay still she disentangled his hand from her twisted clothing and slipped out from underneath him . |
| 14 | As he watched them , he released the spell , and they began to rouse , and when at last he turned to Dierdriu , she was awake and listening to him . |
| 15 | And when at last the whole death was assured , |
| 16 | And when at last in February 1662 the real festival opera , Ercole amante , one of his finest scores , was produced to inaugurate the new theatre in the Tuileries , he had — despite his deliberate attempt to satisfy French taste with pomp and dancing rhythms — again to accept the insertion of ballet music by Lully , the success of which completely distracted attention from his unusually fine recitatives . |
| 17 | Alain was fascinated by the scheme and when at last it became a reality , he asked if he could take an active part . |
| 18 | And when at last she emerged , beaten and dull , it was to find that her sister was waiting . |
| 19 | And when at last she fell asleep it was to find herself in the château , running endlessly through a labyrinth of rooms , searching for something that was always just beyond her reach . |
| 20 | And when at last he got a ringing tone , it was several minutes before it was answered . |
| 21 | And as for last night 's embarrassment , hurt pride could heal , if she set her mind to it . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | But when at last the planes turned away and headed for land , the order was given for all passengers to get below . |
| 24 | He taught them hatred and fear , but when at last their fear waned , their hatred devoured him . |
| 25 | But when at last she spoke , she did so simply and directly , for although the moment was solemn , and although it was probably historic as well , these were not creatures who would react favourably to grandiloquence . |
| 26 | But when at last they halted in front of me , their eyes also held disappointment . |
| 27 | But when at last Henry spoke it was mildly and quietly enough , though his eyes , deep-set and haggard under their drawn brows , looked curiously opaque , like grey glass with no light behind it of lantern or sky , and his hands , slightly gnarled like the hands of an older man , gripped hard at the arms of his chair . |
| 28 | But as in last week 's debate in the House of Lords concern was expressed about retrospective legislation and the practical difficulties of prosecuting alleged war criminals . |
| 29 | It sounded as though Stock was no more , as though at last she was free , strong enough to do without him , to get rid of his influence and accept Graham as more of — and more than — a friend . |
| 30 | He heard vespers sung in the deep dusk from his father 's church , and his heart stilled and quietened in him with wonder , as though at last he felt himself to be drawing near to the heart of a mystery . |