Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] last [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Dean crowd and their successors had been smoking as a regular habit ten years earlier but only now , at the height of the Vietnam crisis , when the futility of the war was beginning to dawn with the return of disillusioned young soldiers prepared at last to tell the truth , were drugs beginning to appear on the American campus scene and in London streets in any volume . |
| 2 | A couple who had looked after an elderly father in their home for many years , were persuaded at last to take one week 's holiday . |
| 3 | Within hours of his arrival , Frank Foley was sent at last to interview him . |
| 4 | Wright is determined at last to become as prolific for his country as he always is for Arsenal especially with Alan Shearer lurking in the wings for Holland next month . |
| 5 | But he felt as well something far greater — the sudden joy of life that he had pleaded for as the old eagle 's right , and in pleading for it then had begun at last to claim it as his own . |