Example sentences of "finally [vb past] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | He fumbled for and finally pounced on the right word , ‘ Of torihada in my legs . ’ |
| 2 | When he finally got on his feet , Roger seemed unduly keen , and I found myself unexpectedly on the defensive . |
| 3 | Repelled yet attracted by the ferocious masks , she finally tried on one or two , but there was no mirror where she could see herself , although she felt peculiarly feline or vulpine according to the mask she wore . |
| 4 | On Monday she finally knelt on the ground where he was killed and placed a wreath to his memory . |
| 5 | For us in Italy , war finally came on 10 june 1940 , when Mussolini declared war on France , which was already on its knees , and on Britain , whose soldiers had been driven out of Europe . |
| 6 | Liberation finally came on 10 May 1945 . |
| 7 | finally plumped on this really |
| 8 | Admiral Habib Olahi and some others finally escaped on foot across the mountains into Turkey . |
| 9 | One closure — the Clayton West branch service which ran from Huddersfield — finally succumbed on 22 January 1983 , because the West Yorkshire PTA declined to provide the subsidy . |
| 10 | ‘ It was several months before the truth finally dawned on me that although I was being entirely faithful to her she had no inhibitions about sleeping with other men for kicks . ’ |
| 11 | Back with the dancers , Humphreys peeled off all his clothes , started playing with himself and finally urinated on the dance-floor . |
| 12 | I finally focused on Ben Slack who was 15 — a year younger than me . |
| 13 | They were all smoking , observed Jannie , but John , as she saw when the camera finally settled on him , was smoking more than most . |
| 14 | Inevitably , however , the teacher-training target had to be adjusted downwards as the DES successively announced cuts in teacher-training provision in England and Wales before , in July 1977 , it finally settled on 2,900 places . |
| 15 | They finally settled on Dillons in Trafalgar Square … |
| 16 | When the dust finally settled on the day 's play , the Stoddard Captain , showing no reluctance to collect the Buchanan Cup on behalf of Stoddards , even although he had played for Lyles , took the opportunity to thank both Eddie Docherty and Ian McCulloch of Lyles for the splendid organisation of the event . |
| 17 | He staggered and fell the last few feet and finally collapsed on the mud and grass of the bank . |
| 18 | An abandoned salt mine near Carrickfergus , Northern Ireland , showed signs of activity in September and early October 1990 , and finally collapsed on 19 October , causing a depression 200 metres in diameter and 7 metres deep [ see photograph on page 19 ] . |
| 19 | Shatila finally collapsed on 27 June 1988 , followed by Bourj el-Brajneh a few days later . |
| 20 | It finally worked on February 21 , 1940 . |
| 21 | NIGEL HAD NOT SEEN KAREN IN ABOUT SIX MONTHS AND WHEN HE finally called on her she was cold . |
| 22 | THE TEXT of the Maastricht Treaty , which finally went on sale at Her Majesty 's Stationery Office ( HMSO ) in London last month , has been withdrawn , apparently because of a row over the spelling of ‘ ecu ’ , the European currency unit . |
| 23 | That it was all undignified , that it was really rather unpleasant , that it was somehow dehumanizing for Harold — these considerations went by the board as he finally rolled on top of her , grunting fiercely in a tone no one at Magdalen would have recognized . |
| 24 | There was no heating in the room and an inadequacy of blankets , and I finally put on all my clothes again and tried my best to snuggle under the only blanket to snatch an hour of sleep . |
| 25 | He also made history as the first judicial nominee to be confirmed without the recommendation of the Senate judiciary committee , which held confirmation hearings on Sept. 10-27 , but deadlocked seven to seven when it finally voted on the motion to recommend the nomination , and then voted 13 to one to pass along the nomination to the entire Senate with no recommendation . |
| 26 | The letter , which finally appeared on 19th October over the initials ‘ E.A.F. ’ , was a clearly stated argument why Gothic was more suitable for the Foreign Office than Classic . |
| 27 | After overhearing comments surrounding Toni 's gender and nationality — by fellow Americans , I was relieved when she finally appeared on stage at 9.15pm . |
| 28 | After so many offensives with mixed outcomes , fortune finally smiled on Iran in 1986 . |
| 29 | We finally emerged on smiling white beaches , fringed with palms and the largest fleet of prahus we had ever seen . |
| 30 | At the end of last season Lawrence was repeatedly linked with the London club links he finally denied on the day the Boro won at Molineux to secure automatic promotion to the Premier League . |