Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [pers pn] at last " in BNC.
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1 | It was in the boot-and-brushing room that Nicandra found her at last — after a search through the larders , the dairy , and the empty laundry , its warm steam now subsided into a vaporous chill . |
2 | Scott heard it at last and looked around , fumbling for the taps , trying to turn off the shower . |
3 | ‘ He 's spending a few days with Maria Luisa in Valencia on the mainland , ’ Fernando told her at last . |
4 | Nausea overwhelmed her at last . |
5 | Only as the cloverleaf began to appear as a grey shape in the otherwise black wall did I at last fall into a dream-wracked sleep . |
6 | Her scorn stung him at last . |
7 | God and the saints remembered her at last . ’ |
8 | Only on his way home at lunchtime did he at last rouse himself enough to make a detour , and stop by at his brother 's apartment and invite Franco to come home with him for lunch . |
9 | He had no idea , for the letter forced him at last to admit to himself that he knew nothing about his son , that he had lost touch with him , had allowed him over the years to drift further and further away so that now they were virtual strangers . |