Example sentences of "he at last [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was supposed to have been the event where he at last assumed his rightful position at the summit of the athletics world following his nightmare at the Olympics . |
| 2 | It was in the stale stink of the sports hall at Pont Llanfraith leisure centre that he at last looked like a loser : hands thrust deep in the pockets of his best suit , face set solid with emotion , like a football manager who has just lost the Cup Final . |
| 3 | When he at last looked away from her , she felt as though she had been seared to the soul by the scathing dismissal in his eyes . |
| 4 | It was , for all that , quite a struggle for Ballesteros before he at last got his game together over the closing holes for a halfway total of 143 , two ahead of Olazabal , who was one over par for the 36 holes . |
| 5 | Returning to his parents in Scarborough , he continued to train in hotel management until in 1925 he at last defied the family and enrolled as a drama student at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London , where two years later he won the gold medal and was immediately given his start in the professional theatre by one of his teachers , the Russian director Theodore Komisarjevsky [ q.v . ] . |
| 6 | It was in Bordeaux , when they crawled through the traffic to the docks , that he at last met Foley . |
| 7 | In its place , as he at last began to carefully , cautiously move inside her , came waves of wondrous , heart-stopping pleasure , so that in the final seconds before some internal eruption emptied her brain and dizzied her senses , she gouged her nails unthinkingly into his back , and wrapped her legs around him in unthinking , mindless surrender … |
| 8 | There was just feeling , wild and deep , intense pleasure that even bordered on pain , and Maggie 's head was on his shoulder , her eyes locked with his when he at last raised his head and looked down at her bewitched face . |
| 9 | It seemed to him that he at last had a friend . |
| 10 | In the third year , he at last had a role that matched his skills , successfully designing graphics panels for use in the computer control of switch gear . |
| 11 | They returned in March 1962 ; he at last finished his essay on George Herbert but , before he could start work on a new play , he had to prepare for the press his early graduate thesis on the work of F. H. Bradley . |
| 12 | Scores of one and 25 in the first Test at Calcutta were in line with his dismal average of 17 , but in the first innings of the second Test in Madras , he at last showed signs of mastering the Indian spinners . |
| 13 | When the garrison had begun to give up hope that he would act , he at last did something . |
| 14 | After speeding across the moors and winding through woodland he at last found her and together they flowed slowly as one out into the Hamoaze . |
| 15 | Near Medina he at last found Ibrahim , who declined to discuss politics . |