Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [pers pn] at last " in BNC.
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| 1 | I found them at last . |
| 2 | My eye followed the light cloud of her smoke , now here , now there , above the plain , according to the devious curves of the stream , but always fainter and farther away , till I lost it at last behind the mitre-shaped hill of the great pagoda ( 6 ) . |
| 3 | Other sentences have a similar type of structure , and tend to end in a similar evocation of vastness and remoteness , as the eye reaches its limit of vision : " under the enormous dome of the sky " ; " the monotonous sweep of the horizon " ; " as if the impassive earth had swallowed her up without an effort , without a tremor " ; " till I lost it at last behind the mitre-shaped hill of the great pagoda " . |
| 4 | She heard me at last . |
| 5 | She saw him at last , but she did n't signal back , she clutched her bag and froze , staring , and the man beside her turned round . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's lovely , ’ she answered him at last , in a brisk , matter-of-fact tone that concealed , she hoped , all that she was feeling . |
| 7 | During a mad session I finally made one after two weeks of trying and came down and a guy called Matt said ‘ Yeah you did it at last ’ . |
| 8 | After several attempts he got him at last on a bad telephone line . |
| 9 | What would he do with Harry 's body when he found it at last , but toss it back again to go downstream as he willed it to go , and leave its poor slender bones scattered all along the banks of Severn without a name or a resting-place ? |