Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] at last " in BNC.
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| 1 | He drew back at last . |
| 2 | ‘ Well at least you got through at last , ’ said Carrington . |
| 3 | But when Fleury came back at last and told him how they were faring in the Residency , Harry knew he would have to take the risk . |
| 4 | They came out at last and Haile Selassie went forward under a crimson canopy to show himself to his people . |
| 5 | Her patience paid off at last when she heard Miss Hardbroom tell the girls to pack up their books , and after much clattering and bustling , the door closed and the laboratory fell silent . |
| 6 | Well , that Arthur turned up at last and the vicar married them , but afterwards me sister let Arthur know just 'ow she felt , she chucked the whole weddin' cake at 'im , then 'er bokey an' then a full bottle of port . |
| 7 | Donald McCulloch came back from ‘ the reel of Ballechin' long after his mother , and when he got up at last next morning , the cold porridge had been thrown out to the hens . |
| 8 | Thomas got up at last from his new place in the middle of the table , which he had quite liked because it had leg access to a rung where he could wriggle his feet when he was bored . |
| 9 | He got up at last and stared out of the window at the empty road and the gravel pits , grey in the dawn light . |
| 10 | ‘ You know my position , ’ he broke out at last . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's simple really , ’ Jennifer went on at last . |
| 12 | ‘ But why ? ’ asked the Ambassador when he looked up at last . |
| 13 | When I looked up at last , it was to see the near cliffs bright with the afternoon sun , and the sea creaming calmly against the storm beach in the gentlest of high tides . |
| 14 | The blond man looked up at last — and his eyes latched on to Cardiff . |
| 15 | As he released her hand and slid his fingers through her hair , drawing her unresisting head towards him , she reached out at last to touch the dark curls at his ear . |
| 16 | Penry made several attempts to break it , but gave up at last , his face like thunder as he drove at a speed which frightened Leonora to death . |
| 17 | No , I bottled out at last minute . |
| 18 | ‘ But — but , ’ Heather burst out at last , ‘ there must be somewhere , Trusty . |
| 19 | He sat down at last to silence , but as a man fulfilled : the tutorial was over . |
| 20 | The berries on the trees , dust washed off at last , have an inviting dewy sheen . |