Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] at last " in BNC.
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| 1 | This year the grant has been frozen at last year 's level , with no uprating for inflation . |
| 2 | Director of public relations , Linda Moore says : ‘ Rates are pegged at last year 's prices for most holidays , with special interests up slightly , but not as a result of the Directive . |
| 3 | The company 's approach , says chief executive Desmond Pitcher , has been vindicated at last ; boring is in fashion again and the common sense of great British public has prevailed over tinsel and razzmatazz . |
| 4 | ‘ Well , well , well , Captain , ’ said Mayor Mutton when the laughter ceased , ‘ So you are apprehended at last … caught in the very act of importing illicit French liquor into His Majesty 's Realm , a heinous crime for which there is but one penalty . ’ |
| 5 | If , when hearing that I have been stilled at last they stand at |
| 6 | He has been waiting two years for a donor and carries a bleeper everywhere — waiting for the call telling him one has been found at last . |
| 7 | She 'd been found at last . |
| 8 | If this should happen , and the long-suppressed voice of moderate , long-suffering English people should be heard at last , that voice might well be captured , taken over and perverted by genuine ‘ extremists ’ and ‘ fascists ’ for abhorrent and evil purposes . |
| 9 | The sometimes insensitive and arbitrary methods employed in carrying out the regrading exercise has aroused scorn , derision and even despair from those who were led to believe that substantial pay increases were to be honoured at last . |
| 10 | Now they 're going to be pegged at last year 's level . |
| 11 | Will he be caught at last , and put to death ? |
| 12 | Now the village 's secrets were to be revealed at last . |
| 13 | THE secret of Norwich 's rise to the top can be revealed at last — it 's brain power ! |
| 14 | In the dawn , before the host came home , he would surely be presented at last with one window into his father 's spirit , and add to the many aspects of Master Harry he had borrowed from other people one at least which was his own . |
| 15 | Last year the Group cut its dividend for the first time since it became a quoted company in 1970 , but this year analysts expect the dividend to be held at last year 's figure , with Pilkington digging into reserves in order to fend off the resulting loss of confidence . |
| 16 | THEY are fixed at last ! |
| 17 | Morels are tamed at last |
| 18 | The jars had been recycled at last ; Caro 's tomatoes had ripened all at once , last September , and she and Bryony had filled sixteen jars with chutney . |
| 19 | Was a new movement being formed at last ? |
| 20 | Biddlecombe 's new beat is around the horse sales … his year 's of racing expertise is being harnessed at last … and the best news of all is that he may soon be back in the saddle |
| 21 | She was heartily glad when they were installed at last in front of the fire , trays on knees . |
| 22 | Cleg 's boots , a heavy weight in the basket over Hari 's arm , were mended at last . |
| 23 | ‘ It 's a relief to know that something positive is being done at last , ’ says Karen . |
| 24 | Their seventh century opening stand in 14 Tests together safely established , the openers were separated at last when the younger man was bowled by Akram , who pitched around leg and hit the off stump at sped . |
| 25 | If the alliance is to be understood as a means to that end , it was also an announcement that the kleindeutsch solution of the German problem had come to stay ; the Habsburgs had no more to fear from Prussia and the corpses of Königgrätz were buried at last . |
| 26 | A couple who had looked after an elderly father in their home for many years , were persuaded at last to take one week 's holiday . |
| 27 | In New York , where he will exhibit with new dealer , Jay Gorney , in the autumn , he has attracted much attention for his ‘ Restraints ’ and ‘ Workbenches ’ which were shown at last year 's Whitney Biennial . |
| 28 | At each stage the vested interests — of protected tenants , of council tenants , and of local and national politicians — in the system , grew stronger and more complex , so that the wonder is not that it lived so long but that two men were found at last , in Duncan Sandys and Henry Brooke , of sufficient courage and determination to lay the axe to the roots and start hewing a way back to sanity . |
| 29 | So he 's being demobbed at last , is he ? ’ |
| 30 | That 's why a number of clubs were represented at last night 's reserve game against Coventry . |