Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] at last " in BNC.
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| 1 | They turned through the narrow Kendal Dyke into a lovely wilderness of reeds and water , sailed from one to another of the posts that mark the channel , came to a signpost standing not on land but out in the middle of the Sounds , read ‘ to Horsey ’ on one side of it , reached away through Meadow Dyke , so narrow that they could easily have jumped ashore , and came at last to the open Mere . |
| 2 | It was sent to her home and came at last to her family . |
| 3 | The poem , addressed in its final form to Charles Lamb , followed his friends in imagination as they walked first ‘ along the hill-top edge ’ , then descended to the waterfall in the ‘ roaring dell ’ at Holford , and climbed at last high into the Quantocks , from where they looked out upon ‘ the many-steepled tract magnificent ’ of the coastal plain . |
| 4 | The authorities became worried about the threat to public order and decided at last to act against both fascist paramilitary provocation and anti-fascist counter-violence , a decision influenced by deputations to the Home Secretary from the London Labour party and the Manchester watch committee . |
| 5 | She suddenly saw how selfish she had been , and knew at last the answer to the thing that had puzzled her for so long — why her mummy , who had been a keen Brownie Guider and loved Brownies , would n't let her join a Pack . |
| 6 | We inched again past the thundering monster and its second string to the rear , and emerged at last into the clattering reverberating peace of the baggage car where I was reunited with my waistcoat . |
| 7 | Both are candidates for the Olympic team and Bridge , though the youngest man in the race , rowed in last year 's crew and competed at last year 's world championships in a coxed pair steered by Probert . |
| 8 | She grinned at the thought , and slid at last into sleep , smiling . |
| 9 | He looked again at the photograph , and recognized at last that the baby who looked familiar was Fred 's . |