Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] at last " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pyjamas fastened at last , Ashley rose shakily to her feet . |
| 2 | It was with a sickening sense of shock that his eyes fell at last on the heaps of bodies lying in the shadows of the dock buildings and beneath the pepper trees . |
| 3 | ‘ The boy and girl are with you , ’ the Trapper repeated like a man slow of thought , to whom the words had at last revealed their significance . |
| 4 | Sparks flew at last weekend 's Berkeley conference when Boaz turned up unexpectedly . |
| 5 | Vologsky 's turbulent emotions broke at last . |
| 6 | By the accession of Philip VI of Valois , therefore , the old Angevin and Lusignan fiefs had at last been absorbed by the French crown . |
| 7 | The red-brown tentacles of London 's suburbs had at last been shaken off , and the chequered autumn landscape , multi-textured as a cloth collage , unrolled before them in a changing pattern of brown , green and gold , leading them on to Cambridge . |
| 8 | By the end of the century things had at last begun to change : in 1899 Primitive Methodists agreed a minimum of £100 while Congregationalists and Baptists set aside part of their Twentieth Century Funds for salaries . |
| 9 | But the news , later in the day , that the first of at least 10 chartered trains had at last crossed the border into Czechoslovakia revived the East Germans ' spirit of solidarity in the face of inconvenience and discomfort . |
| 10 | Then the tears came at last , and she could n't say another word . |
| 11 | The " atmosphere of ideological domineering " had been replaced by freedom of thought and glasnost , and leaders had at last begun to tell people the truth . |
| 12 | From the camps of Europe , those who had avoided the execution pits and the gas chambers had at last reached the Promised Land about which their cantors had sung at Auschwitz . |
| 13 | Whatever their errors — and they had been considerable — the Bolsheviks did at last establish some measure of order that allowed some recovery from the attrition of the years . |
| 14 | More than one of the void screens had at last been overloaded . |