Example sentences of "[pron] have [verb] [prep] last " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Oh I get it , I 've twigged at last . |
| 2 | I enjoyed another two years in Kenya but now my work is mission appeals in South West Britain and I have discovered at last the source of our treasure ! |
| 3 | I have learned at last , and bitterly , that I can not do this . ’ |
| 4 | I have left till last what may well be considered by book-collectors one of the most charming fields of ephemera collecting — that of the chapbook , so called from the chapman or pedlar in whose pack so many of these small publications found their way through the shires of England . |
| 5 | It is a team which has grown since last year , reflecting the important emphasis being placed on Export sales , which have shown almost a 25% increase by value in the last two years . |
| 6 | ‘ You 've changed since last night , ’ Ruth told him in a soft murmur . |
| 7 | ‘ So you 've come at last , ’ she said . |
| 8 | ‘ So , you 've come at last , ’ he said . |
| 9 | As for Meredith , she forgot about him once she had ventured at last into the supermarket . |
| 10 | " 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 . |
| 11 | She would like to get her own back for that row she had got into last October . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | But the 14-year-old , who had lost in last year 's finals , did n't really need it . |
| 14 | ‘ Hugh , ’ she whispered , grasping him by the arm , ‘ you have returned at last ! ’ |
| 15 | A chance , too , perhaps , to sort out the business deal they had talked about last week . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It had happened at last ! |
| 18 | Waving a fist at the camera , Cameron Nielson recited the names of those blacklist casualties he had avenged at last . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | He had arrived at last . |
| 21 | She was able to roam further afield now , for Kit Everard felt he could gamble on her honour ( he hoped she was becoming attached to him too ) , and allowed her to walk on the beach by herself , and swim out to sea , even though he realised it meant she could slip out of the compound , for the sections of the stockade that he had left till last would enclose the shore . |
| 22 | Miriam could hardly believe that he had spoken at last . |
| 23 | It 's come at last ! " |
| 24 | As Myles came into view , his hat in his hand , all arrogance gone , he thought , All praise to almighty God , he 's come at last . |
| 25 | Neither of us has eaten since last night . ’ |