Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [adv] [prep] last " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I looked up at last , it was to see the near cliffs bright with the afternoon sun , and the sea creaming calmly against the storm beach in the gentlest of high tides . |
| 2 | No , I bottled out at last minute . |
| 3 | ‘ Yes , ’ she admitted slowly at last , ‘ I suppose I was shocked … the truth was very different from what I 'd imagined . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Well at least you got through at last , ’ said Carrington . |
| 5 | But you had a bit of flare up A You flared up in last time you had came off it , did n't you ? |
| 6 | ‘ Why do you keep staring at me ? ’ she demanded edgily at last . |
| 7 | As he released her hand and slid his fingers through her hair , drawing her unresisting head towards him , she reached out at last to touch the dark curls at his ear . |
| 8 | ‘ I do n't think I really had any doubts about them , ’ she said slowly at last . |
| 9 | ‘ Having second thoughts on what you missed out on last night ? ’ she sneered . |
| 10 | ‘ Shall I tell the band you 're ill ? ’ she suggested helpfully at last . |
| 11 | We arrived home at last on April 13th , 1702 , and I saw my dear wife and children again . |
| 12 | When they drew apart at last Travis carried her to the nearest armchair , cradling her across his lap . |
| 13 | They came out at last and Haile Selassie went forward under a crimson canopy to show himself to his people . |
| 14 | When they went upstairs at last , I stayed on the terrace . |
| 15 | KEVIN McGARRITY is going back to the British Vauxhall Lotus championship — and back to the team he quit midway through last season . |
| 16 | Donald McCulloch came back from ‘ the reel of Ballechin' long after his mother , and when he got up at last next morning , the cold porridge had been thrown out to the hens . |
| 17 | He got up at last and stared out of the window at the empty road and the gravel pits , grey in the dawn light . |
| 18 | He drew back at last . |
| 19 | He came over to last year 's boat reunion at Pembroke Dock . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ You know my position , ’ he broke out at last . |
| 21 | ‘ Did my lovemaking revolt you so much , then ? ’ he demanded roughly at last . |
| 22 | ‘ But why ? ’ asked the Ambassador when he looked up at last . |
| 23 | ‘ Perhaps three , ’ he said mildly at last , as if he were answering the simplest and most natural of questions . |
| 24 | He sat down at last to silence , but as a man fulfilled : the tutorial was over . |