Example sentences of "[be] [adv] at [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We 're together at last , ’ she breathed . |
| 2 | You 're here at last — nothing else matters . |
| 3 | They did not talk much , being content to be together at last . |
| 4 | ‘ Jesus , I 'm there at last , ’ he thought deliriously . |
| 5 | She 'd tell him that when they were together at last . |
| 6 | I thought you were here at first , or just nipped to the pub or something . ’ |
| 7 | They were there at last , Lucy was bundled as gently as speed would allow on to a trolley and whisked off through swing doors , and Virginia stared , hollow-eyed , at Guy as they waited around silently in the reception area . |
| 8 | Publications of this sort broke sharply with the anonymity and complete immunity from public scrutiny which had hitherto marked foreign offices , and were therefore at first greeted in them with doubt or hostility . |
| 9 | BRAVE LAURA IS HOME AT LAST |
| 10 | The complexity of new technology ( for users ) is high at first , but again decreases with subsequent releases of the product . |
| 11 | ‘ History is over , you all , and everything 's ahead at last , ’ crows the novel 's narrator , with the triumphant born-again optimism that characterised a generation of black people who migrated north in search of new beginnings . |
| 12 | It was low at first , then we could hear it rising until the whole auditorium was engulfed in gales of laughter at the poor preacher who had been duped by the Mau Maus . |
| 13 | In St Petersburg in 1789 the French ambassador was publicly congratulated by the Grand Duke Alexander ( later Alexander I ) on the fall of the Bastille , while Alexander 's younger brother the Grand Duke Constantine , who was later to become an extreme reactionary , was also at first an enthusiastic partisan of the Revolution . |
| 14 | I remember thinking that I knew what painting was about at last . ’ |
| 15 | The subjection of the industry to ‘ financial disciplines ’ was inevitably at first a slogan rather than a policy . |
| 16 | She was now at last returning home . |
| 17 | The revolution was here at last , and social commentators spoke with alarm about the march of freedom , and said the youth of all nations appeared to be abandoning traditional values to embark on journeys into the unknown , pushing out into previously unexplored and destructive avenues of life . |
| 18 | Our idea was that at last we could have a real go at it , make sure things worked out . |