Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [vb pp] [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 | ‘ You 've changed since last night , ’ Ruth told him in a soft murmur . |
6 | ‘ So you 've come at last , ’ she said . |
7 | ‘ So , you 've come at last , ’ he said . |
8 | As for Meredith , she forgot about him once she had ventured at last into the supermarket . |
9 | " 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 . |
10 | She would like to get her own back for that row she had got into last October . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | ‘ Hugh , ’ she whispered , grasping him by the arm , ‘ you have returned at last ! ’ |
13 | A chance , too , perhaps , to sort out the business deal they had talked about last week . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | It had happened at last ! |
16 | Waving a fist at the camera , Cameron Nielson recited the names of those blacklist casualties he had avenged at last . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | He had arrived at last . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | Miriam could hardly believe that he had spoken at last . |
21 | It 's come at last ! " |
22 | 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 . |
23 | Neither of us has eaten since last night . ’ |