Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] last [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The muffled voice behind the door sank at last into hopeless silence . |
| 2 | The second trial , after months of going to and fro , moved at last to Orlando , an overwhelmingly white and conservative city , where juries , it is said , have never convicted a police officer for alleged misconduct in the line of duty . |
| 3 | There is a stunned silence … punctured at last by shrill , almost hysterical laughter . |
| 4 | But he came from last to first under a powerful ride from apprentice Andrew Tucker to hit the front a furlong out and score by three quarters of a length from favourite Sylvan Starlight for Rod Simpson . |
| 5 | Lion Cavern came from last in a race run at a slow early pace , to get up in the finalstrides and score by a head from long-time leader River Falls , with Swing Low a further length away third , and Rodrigo de Triano failing to run on in the final furlong and weakening for fourth . |
| 6 | Lion Cavern came from last in a slowly-run race and displayed commendable resolution to emerge a narrow but worthy winner . |
| 7 | ‘ Every man 's death diminishes us , Robert , ’ he observed , ‘ and I 'm sorry that he should die now when he seemed at last to be recovering his dignity . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | We came at last to his office which was basically a roomette like my own : that is to say , it was a seven-by-four-foot space on one side of a central corridor , containing a washbasin , a folding table and two seats , one of which concealed what the timetable coyly called ‘ facilities ’ . |
| 10 | Another time , Swan flew through the night for what seemed like hours and hours until they came at last to a gigantic opening in the earth 's surface , a sort of huge gaping hole in the ground , and Swan glided slowly round and round above this massive crater and then right down into it . |
| 11 | It was sent to her home and came at last to her family . |
| 12 | The climb continued by Knarlton hoot to Hudson Quarry , where wild sage was growing thickly amongst the limestone and grass , until I came at last to the rougher pasture below Hazely . |
| 13 | Outside , he headed for the bridge and there , halfway across , he came at last to a halt , with traffic rushing past , the river gleaming below and the city reaching away in an infinite complex parade of shining white and pearly grey with light snapping from windows and cars . |
| 14 | He came at last to a small , lean-to workshop where a girl , seated at a bench with her back to him , was decorating a pot placed on a turntable . |
| 15 | They came at last to the great , bulky empty house , staring across to parklands through the inspired grouping of its trees . |
| 16 | So she kept to the woods , following the way Pedro had led , until she came at last to the clearing at the head of the ride . |
| 17 | We came at last to a clearing brought about by a massive outcrop of rock . |
| 18 | despite the fact that the invasion came at last on Friday morning . |
| 19 | They turned at last from this one point of certainty in their world and walked along the fringe of the forest , picking their way between the trees but keeping the Waste in view . |
| 20 | Moving with no clear sense of direction , I arrived at last at a wooden hut , set in a clearing in the forest which covered that part of the mountain . |
| 21 | When they were all settled , the President of the Court , the four colonels who made up the tribunal and the Judge Advocate General appeared , followed at last by the prisoner . |
| 22 | Scotland trailed in last in the Boys Quadrangular International , yesterday at Is Molas , Sardinia , after following Saturday 's defeat against France with a 8-4 loss at the hands of host nation Italy . |
| 23 | Just as the race rekindled Classic hopes for Stoute , the flame was snuffed out for Newmarket trainer Mohammed Moubarak , who blamed himself for the dismal performance of 11–4 favourite Forest Tiger , who trailed in last after coming under pressure at half-way . |
| 24 | On his return he settled at last under the protection of Cuthbert , first in the saint 's own resting place at Durham , then in a hermitage under the protection of Durham cathedral priory at Finchale by the river Wear — and the rest of his life is filled with his prayers and visions and miracles at Finchale . |
| 25 | The telephone rang at last at 9.30 . |
| 26 | Here were two cups that had survived 1989 , smashed at last in a final appointment in Samarra . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Only after Coleridge returned from Shrewsbury , freed at last from immediate financial worry , could vague hopes be transformed into clearer intentions . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | ‘ Not exactly , ’ she answered at last with as much honesty as she could without giving anything away . |