Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] [verb] [prep] last " in BNC.

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1 My mind has at last caught up , and indeed overtaken my body .
2 In her letter she asked Gwenellen to ask me if my aunt had at last decided to put poor Old Red out of his misery ?
3 Fortunately their future has at last been settled and work is currently under way converting the mill into council offices .
4 It may have been seven years late and a billion dollars over budget , but the Hubble space telescope was lifting out of the shuttle cargo bay and on its way to orbit at last , ready to look back across the universe to the very beginnings of time .
5 His words hit her like a sudden icy shower , and her self-control snapped at last .
6 " But you have , " her mother answered at last .
7 Her mother spoke at last .
8 His mind had at last found its way back to its usual cast when he heard Sara 's friend talking to her .
9 When the burning heat in his body had at last broken , she had concentrated on his arm , washing the wound constantly by setting a bowl outside to catch the clean rainwater and then replacing it with the pail , changing the two receptacles again and again .
10 ‘ We also want to know exactly how Garland spent his time from Saturday afternoon when his father died to last night when somebody shot him on the wharf .
11 The first thing I would point to is that our training costs for last year averaged out at £5,100 per trainee .
12 I am fascinated to notice that your profession has at last started not merely to say that , but to criticise those who refuse to allow so manifest a fact to be stated in order that it may be examined .
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