Example sentences of "do [prep] last [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | Tullibardine , far more cautious , was reluctant even to cross to the mainland and when they did at last set sail they suffered the usual Jacobite bad luck . |
2 | Just as they were leaving she did at last catch sight of some friends from school . |
3 | When Delia Sutherland did at last ring it was three weeks after their meeting and he was proved right . |
4 | Whatever their errors — and they had been considerable — the Bolsheviks did at last establish some measure of order that allowed some recovery from the attrition of the years . |
5 | And when she did at last enter the music room — through the door from the arboretum — she found herself a seat at the back , at the end of a row . |
6 | However , at Canto 106/753–54 ( there is a brief allusion at 104/745 to the mosaics at Monreale ) , we do at last find a Sicilian allusion in the context of writing that we can recognize as distinguished : |
7 | When faster music does at last arrive for the ‘ Magic Carillon ’ and the ‘ Infernal Dance , ’ its energy splutters ineffectually on the back burner . |