Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] at last " in BNC.
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| 1 | And indeed the little creature merely sighed before lying motionless , the fateful twitching stilled at last . |
| 2 | The need for centralization of the royal court and parliament led at last to the choice and subsequent development of Edinburgh as Scotland 's capital city . |
| 3 | Digital Equipment Corp has at last announced its OSF/1 Unix-based operating system for Alpha-based AXP systems , giving its Alpha hardware customers an alternative to VMS . |
| 4 | IBM Corp has at last woken up to the fact that to remain competitive in the personal computer business , it is necessary constantly to add new models , and in the US , the company yesterday added new 80486-based PS/1 models based on chips ranging from the 25MHz 80486SX to the 66MHz 80486DX2 ; they come in desktop and minitower configurations and are available now at prices expected to go from $1,200 to $3,000 ; they are upgradable to the Pentium . |
| 5 | The public breakdown of discipline in the crime-suppression division has at last destroyed the faith of many Thais in the police . |
| 6 | But it 's only now , 17 years after her death , that the first lady of crime fiction has at last acquired a fan club . |
| 7 | Are we to jump to the unlikely conclusion that John 's heart has at last been melted by the love of a good woman ? |
| 8 | They have been replaced in many areas by an urban , overwhelmingly middle-class population which has been attracted by a combination of cheap housing ( until the late 1960s ) and by an idealized view of rural life which their ownership of a car has at last allowed them to indulge . |
| 9 | My mind has at last caught up , and indeed overtaken my body . |
| 10 | Channel 4 's comedy department has at last found the right format for a cabaret star — by going back to the innocent childhood of TV comedy . |
| 11 | RIVAS OF BLOOD STEMMED AT LAST |
| 12 | Fortunately their future has at last been settled and work is currently under way converting the mill into council offices . |
| 13 | Danes are in effect voting on a deal negotiated at last December 's EC summit in Edinburgh , which gave them opt-outs on sensitive issues such as a common currency , joint security , police controls and citizenship rules . |
| 14 | The lawyer murmured at last : ‘ Let's not be hasty . |
| 15 | A multi-tribal alliance of their own is their only chance of hanging on to power when white rule ends at last . |
| 16 | Light dawned at last . |
| 17 | It 's just that after four long , very long , years , a little light seems at last to be discernible through the gloom . |
| 18 | And amid calls from all sides for the terrorist violence to end at last he said that if his son became a symbol for peace and hope , that would be ‘ Tim 's unique achievement ’ . |
| 19 | His mind had at last found its way back to its usual cast when he heard Sara 's friend talking to her . |
| 20 | Many simply went in and out of the factory without showing any emotion at all , relieved that weeks of uncertainty had at last come to an end . |
| 21 | Light minded At last , a ( sort of ) fair report on the travellers in England . |
| 22 | There were 35 of us on top of the Eiger : Edwin Drummond 's Climb for the World dream realised at last . |
| 23 | Some hero has at last heard our cry and painted a blue sky . |
| 24 | Copy of a letter from Councillor Mrs. Brereton to the C. B. News that , due to sustained pressure by herself , the District Council has at last let contracts to resurface the stretch of the Water of Leith Walkway between Currie Kirk and Juniper Green . |
| 25 | Copy of a letter from Councillor Mrs. Brereton to the C. B. News that , due to sustained pressure by herself , the District Council has at last let contracts to resurface the stretch of the Water of Leith Walkway between Currie Kirk and Juniper Green . |
| 26 | Work presented at last summer 's high-energy physics conference in Paris gave an upper limit of 2.25 x 10 31 years for a proton decaying into a positron and a . |
| 27 | The telephone rang at last at 9.30 . |
| 28 | This dream had at last come true , for Lennie anyway , perhaps not in the way he had expected though . |
| 29 | ‘ Why ? ’ fitzAlan said at last . |
| 30 | Recent legislation had improved matters , however ; the 1833 Factory Act prohibited the employment of young children and the 1847 Ten Hours Act had at last given working people some time for recreation . |