Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [prep] last " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Mini Master failed to appear at last year 's Oshkosh because one of the 582 engines failed at 6500 ft 30 minutes after take-off from San Marcos , Texas . |
| 2 | The sun broke through , it stopped raining at last . |
| 3 | He stopped prowling at last , and dropped into one of the easy chairs facing me . |
| 4 | ‘ That 's right , ’ I said , pleased that he seemed to understand at last . |
| 5 | Meh'Lindi seemed sated at last . |
| 6 | Mallachy had not liked the crack about actors , because it was a line that Rory had been peddling quite strongly recently , a rod he 'd found at last with which to beat his friend . |
| 7 | As they walked amidst the great trees , Ruth seemed to wake at last from the deadness that had possessed her since arriving in Andernesse . |
| 8 | What happened to all those budding artists who came to sign on last autumn and arrived with their brand new paint boxes and paper ? |
| 9 | This side is thick with informers but all the same a thousand managed to swim across last year . |
| 10 | ( They managed to come on last year 's Central Wales Line trip . ) |
| 11 | Mr Darman felt burnt by last year 's clean-air act . |
| 12 | ‘ Why did you come , Freddie ? ’ she managed to ask at last . |
| 13 | But when he did speak at last , his words were a chilling disappointment . |
| 14 | She did drive until last year but I would imagine that she 's probably no longer safe driving . |
| 15 | The measures Mr Manos introduced have at last started to get the figures moving firmly in the right direction . |
| 16 | The clouds had parted at last , and the western sky was flooded with shining gold . |
| 17 | Waving a fist at the camera , Cameron Nielson recited the names of those blacklist casualties he had avenged at last . |
| 18 | One of the leading dissidents reflected the wider view , when Winston Churchill thanked Mr Heseltine for the ‘ considerable distance ’ he had travelled since last year . |
| 19 | The water cooled too quickly for her to stay long in the bath , but afterwards she lay fully dressed on the bed for a while , listening , her spirits rising as she realised that the wind had dropped at last . |
| 20 | Even the child in Molly 's arms smiled sleepily when her sisters told her that the water had come at last . |
| 21 | The time had come at last for Confucius to bow to the sages of the modern world ! |
| 22 | The birds gave voice so vigorously that relief that the sun had come at last might almost be detected in their song — the warm , exhilarating sun . |
| 23 | It was the first time the bishops had met following last November 's historic vote by the Church of England 's General Synod in favour of women 's ordination as priests . |
| 24 | " My sons told me you lost your wife in a swimming accident four years ago , Monsieur Devraux , " she had said at last , speaking quietly in French . |
| 25 | Many had to borrow money , a need that had grown since last year 's replacement of social security single grants for urgent needs or repairs by social fund loans . |
| 26 | She rose from her knees to face two pairs of eyes in which hope had died at last . |
| 27 | A chance , too , perhaps , to sort out the business deal they had talked about last week . |
| 28 | Leith was having difficulty in equating this caring-sounding Naylor with the aggressive brute she had tangled with last night when Travis revealed , ‘ But it was my mother who rang him on Friday and , it seems , confessed — something I 'd been too preoccupied to have noticed — that she 'd been worried about me for some while . |
| 29 | She would like to get her own back for that row she had got into last October . |
| 30 | And then a log broke in the hearth , sending sparks cascading , and the shadows leapt , and Grainne remembered all of the old stories , and could almost have believed that the ancient Ireland had awoken at last ; that goblins and satyrs and cloven-hoofed , pointed-eared creatures were prancing in the room with them . |