Example sentences of "[pers pn] finally [vb past] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But when I finally got to bed again it was well into Monday morning and it was Monday afternoon when I surfaced and there was a policeman on the door and it had n't been a nightmare after all . |
| 2 | I finally got in touch with the distributor and explained what was going on . |
| 3 | To make a long story short , I finally arranged for Service to record a brief message on tape which was flown to the Yukon and broadcast over loud-speakers during the cinema 's opening ceremonies . |
| 4 | After a seven hour train journey , I finally arrived at Dartington College of Arts . |
| 5 | Doubting whether the traffic jam would have cleared by Wednesday , I finally arrived in time to miss my dental appointment and searched my mind for something pleasant to think of as I rejoined the traffic and inched my way back to the cottage . |
| 6 | I finally focused on Ben Slack who was 15 — a year younger than me . |
| 7 | I finally turned to Kent , not because of what had already been discovered there but because it was on my doorstep and a lot more accessible than either France or Wiltshire . |
| 8 | That was the design I finally gave to Shawcraft as a construction drawing which ended up as the Dalek . |
| 9 | At six o'clock the next morning she finally fell in front of the door of the workhouse , and the people there took her in . |
| 10 | erm The Queen did n't arrive till 1643 , she 'd been in the Netherlands raising money for the war effort , very successfully , because she finally came to Oxford with 2,000 foot and 1,000 horsemen , and erm a hundred wagons full of equipment as well as cannons and so on . |
| 11 | She did n't mean to , but she finally came to terms with the lateness of the hour with a yawn ; it was already happening before she could stop it . |
| 12 | A long time later she finally drifted into sleep . |
| 13 | But the tumour continued to grow and she finally opted for surgery and chemotherapy . |
| 14 | After overhearing comments surrounding Toni 's gender and nationality — by fellow Americans , I was relieved when she finally appeared on stage at 9.15pm . |
| 15 | She finally spoke to Louise . |
| 16 | Trembling a little at this information , she finally arrived at Flintcomb-Ash . |
| 17 | At midnight , twenty-four hours after leaving Calais , she finally arrived in Milan where she had to change trains . |
| 18 | We finally arrived at Caboolture Airport near Brisbane thirteen months after leaving London , greeted by Australian friends and the press . |
| 19 | We finally arrived in Calgary on the afternoon of the second day , thus inaugurating the first flight of the western Canada air mail service . |
| 20 | The hours burned by on the green screen , and when they finally flopped in Lucy 's living room , sipping brandy , a key turned in the lock and in came the charmingly dishevelled one and only son . |
| 21 | They finally settled on Dillons in Trafalgar Square … |
| 22 | When they finally stood in front of him , they realized why he had not answered . |
| 23 | They finally arrived at Lizzy 's ward . |
| 24 | When he finally died of alcoholism , she returned to the only job she knew , dancing . |
| 25 | When he finally paused for breath , I said , ‘ Hold on a moment ’ and explained that , although obviously nobody wants to spend more than they have to on anything , in my case it was a matter of principle , because I wanted my husband 's funeral to be a personal affair in which he would be ministered to by his loved-ones , not strangers . |
| 26 | Thus , on 10th April 1191 , he finally sailed from Sicily . |
| 27 | On lap forty-five , he finally got past Lauda ( who was having trouble with his gear linkage ) going up Druids and the crowd went wild . |
| 28 | In the face of foreign invasion , James panicked and fled the country in December 1688 ( though it took him two attempts before he finally escaped to France ) , and in February 1689 a specially convened Convention Parliament established William and Mary as joint King and Queen and debarred all Catholics from the succession in the future . |
| 29 | When he finally returned to England in 1952 , an unreconstructed radical from the 1930s , he was appalled to discover that an acquiescent temper of mind , even Christianity itself , had returned to haunt a literary world he had once supposed forever cleared of the religious taint . |
| 30 | He had never seen that happen before , and decided to get it checked when he finally returned to England . |