Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] have [prep] last " in BNC.

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1 Some hero has at last heard our cry and painted a blue sky .
2 This dream had at last come true , for Lennie anyway , perhaps not in the way he had expected though .
3 But the news , later in the day , that the first of at least 10 chartered trains had at last crossed the border into Czechoslovakia revived the East Germans ' spirit of solidarity in the face of inconvenience and discomfort .
4 Her neighbour , after helping himself well to leg of mutton as the vast dish had at last come round to him , said ( confirming her ) , ‘ Our guest of honour is a real femme du monde . ’
5 The Palace had been unable to fill the outside-left berth adequately after George Clarke 's long reign had come to an end , but there was no doubt in any supporter 's minds that a worthy successor had at last been found when Bob Bigg made his Palace debut .
6 Franco 's propagandists spared no efforts to demonstrate that the international community had at last recognized the rightness of his principles , or to extol what they called the enormous political skill of the man who had foreseen the Cold War years before it became reality .
7 A YEAR after the European Community 's central-bank governors produced what is known as the Delors report on economic and monetary union , the European Commission has at last written its own credo on EMU .
8 Sergeant Charles Trumper was discharged from active service on 20 February 1919 , one of the early ones : the missing toe had at last counted for something .
9 The public breakdown of discipline in the crime-suppression division has at last destroyed the faith of many Thais in the police .
10 Now that those plans have at last come to some fruition , Abraham 's obedience must be tested again .
11 The luxury tramcar had at last arrived !
12 ‘ The General Staff has at last discovered what fighters are for .
13 To Robyn it seemed that critical theory had at last moved to its rightful place , centre-stage , in the theatre of history , and she was ready to play her part in the drama .
14 Now that Philip van Wilder 's collected works have at last appeared in print , it is clear that this too is a distinctive body of music that Byrd absorbed without actually committing plagiarism ; only play van Wilder 's ‘ O dulks regard ’ beside Byrd 's ‘ Ne irascaris ’ and you will hear what I mean .
15 A uniform system had at last been achieved .
16 More than one of the void screens had at last been overloaded .
17 A year later than Norman Lamont expected , the green shoots of economic growth have at last sprouted in Britain .
18 And brainy boffins have at last discovered the main cause of ‘ global warming ’ .
19 By the accession of Philip VI of Valois , therefore , the old Angevin and Lusignan fiefs had at last been absorbed by the French crown .
20 According to Radio Moscow 's Interfax , a news service , and Commersant , a magazine of the Union of Co-operatives , after a five-year dither the Soviet Union has at last opted for a Polish-style Big Bang for its economic reform .
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