Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [prep] last " in BNC.
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| 1 | This had introduced them to mechanisms which suggested a terminology applicable to their own science making it possible for them at last to give the behaviourists , who had been giving those not of their ilk a hard time , some of their own medicine . |
| 2 | The two worlds of nature and abstraction meet when Stavrogin asks Dasha whether by coming to be his nurse ‘ you hope to set up some aim for me at last ’ . |
| 3 | When Stavrogin , who ‘ poisoned ’ Kirillov , and who also kills himself , wrote that letter to Dasha Shatov asking her to come and be his nurse , his mind wo n't have been bent either on or away from suicide ; he was neutrally wondering whether she hoped ‘ to set up some aim for me at last ’ . |
| 4 | Almost two years after the beer orders went through the House , we are entitled to ask the Minister what good came of them at last . |
| 5 | Have you shipwrecked that crazy boat of yours at last ? " |
| 6 | I 'm pleased I 've managed to get hold of you at last . |
| 7 | It 's good to have news of you at last ! |
| 8 | So got rid of him at last , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , and went in to the glass . |
| 9 | He would be rid of him at last . |
| 10 | MAY I please be allowed to comment on just one of the points in Mr Prytherch 's letter ( WCM July ) , written in refutation of mine of last December . |
| 11 | I am reminded of the famous poem , by Robert Southey , about the battle of Blenheim , when little Peterkin asks : ’ But what good came of it at last ? ’ |
| 12 | She 's got the hang of it at last Chloe , you 're alright now ! |
| 13 | Indeed , if I had thought that , I would no doubt have been disabused of it by last night 's debate , to which my hon. Friend the Under-Secretary of State , the hon. Member for Maidstone ( Miss Widdecombe ) so ably replied . |
| 14 | This famous five have experienced the spectrum of emotions stirred up in many of us by last year 's frightening food-related newspaper headlines . |
| 15 | ‘ We 've got some penicillin for you at last . |
| 16 | Give me two minutes Johnny , and we 'll put it on for you at last ! |
| 17 | ‘ But there will be books to buy from men who are finished with them from last year ; it will cost less , ’ said Willie . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'd like to go over your movements with you for last Saturday , Sunday and Monday week , please , ’ he went on crisply . |
| 19 | ‘ Well , old fellow in the cellarage , ’ she whispered lightly to herself , though the breath was shallow in her throat , ‘ it seems I must speak with you at last . ’ |
| 20 | I 'll explain Have you got your notes with you from last week ? |
| 21 | His Mum had n't taken him to work with her since last year . |
| 22 | The row is over her attempt to evict Xoliswa Falati , who was accused with her in last year 's sensational kidnap and assault trial , from one of the Mandela homes in Soweto . |
| 23 | Instead , he was troubled at the start by a cold which has been with him since last week . |
| 24 | It was the first time she had been alone with him since last night and the thought of it made her fluttery inside . |
| 25 | When she woke up , she found she was at home with him at last . ’ |
| 26 | In the half-light that was not yet day , roadside trees could conceal could even be — the dreaded pursuers , caught up with him at last . |
| 27 | You went to find him — did n't you ? — for his creditors have caught up with him at last . |
| 28 | ‘ Praise from you at last , Peregrine . |
| 29 | … he might be young , lonely and not a little bewildered , but the way was clear before him at last ; he had taken his orders and been given the pass word , he could win through . |
| 30 | She nodded slightly , and he bent his head to give her a kiss which was meant to be fleeting , but which went on and on until they were breathless and shaken when he put her away from him at last . |