Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [verb] [prep] last " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Why did you come , Freddie ? ’ she managed to ask at last . |
| 2 | She did drive until last year but I would imagine that she 's probably no longer safe driving . |
| 3 | As for Meredith , she forgot about him once she had ventured at last into the supermarket . |
| 4 | " 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 . |
| 5 | She would like to get her own back for that row she had got into last October . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ( They managed to come on last year 's Central Wales Line trip . ) |
| 8 | A chance , too , perhaps , to sort out the business deal they had talked about last week . |
| 9 | The sun broke through , it stopped raining at last . |
| 10 | He stopped prowling at last , and dropped into one of the easy chairs facing me . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ That 's right , ’ I said , pleased that he seemed to understand at last . |
| 13 | But when he did speak at last , his words were a chilling disappointment . |
| 14 | It had happened at last ! |
| 15 | Waving a fist at the camera , Cameron Nielson recited the names of those blacklist casualties he had avenged at last . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | He had arrived at last . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Miriam could hardly believe that he had spoken at last . |