Example sentences of "when [prep] last [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When at last they did see him coming they had to follow his slow path from the road , watch him lean his bicycle carefully against the wall under the yew and plod slowly up between the two rows of boxwood . |
| 2 | When at last they are released , they are positively maniacal , and gallop and buck around the paddock twice as much as usual before settling down to eating the grass . |
| 3 | City shopkeepers thought this would be disastrous as the last thing that people cooped up in offices all day want to do is to plunge underground when at last they have a chance to get out in the fresh air . |
| 4 | When at last they came to the lower end of Spring Street , Agnes stopped and , looking from one to the other , she said , ‘ This is where I live ; I 'll be all right now . |
| 5 | When at last they sat down to eat , a small crowd of children had gathered in the doorway , drawn from their own homes by the smell of puris frying , knowing from this that today was a special occasion . |
| 6 | When at last they reached the maize fields they stopped . |
| 7 | When at last they drew back , he saw that one side of their faces was skinless and bleeding . |
| 8 | When at last they broke apart , he took both her hands in his and kissed each of her palms . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's that good to see you , Master Harry , ’ she said when at last they were all seated comfortably round the dining-table . |
| 10 | ‘ We need to talk about this , ’ he said when at last they broke apart . |
| 11 | When at last they began to come out to her in the sun-drenched quadrangle on the Castle 's south side , where she liked to sit , she was patient and cautious . |
| 12 | But when at last they halted in front of me , their eyes also held disappointment . |
| 13 | Dora accepted these ministrations without protest , but Melissa thought she detected a growing restiveness and a thinly veiled relief when at last they said goodnight and returned to their own room . |
| 14 | ‘ Snodgrass , ’ Oliver remarked , picking up Angela 's quotation , when at last they reached the safety of the gardens far below , ‘ do not let me be baulked in this matter — do not obtain the assistance of several stalwart Lionisers to carry me prostrate back to Broadstairs , do not listen to me when I say never , never again shall I visit a sight connected to the late great Mr Charles Dickens . |
| 15 | ‘ It is n't fair , ’ she complained breathlessly , when at last they both came up for air . |
| 16 | ‘ Well , I 'd better say goodnight , ’ she said , when at last they called a halt . |
| 17 | When at last they lay quietly , her head resting on Luke 's shoulder , her hand spread against the damp warmth of his skin , Fran felt as though she had come back from some great journey that had shifted her conception and understanding of everything . |
| 18 | When at last we got home , I would gently carry them indoors and put them into their beds , still asleep . |
| 19 | When at last we were all safely in a carriage , he would saunter off to buy a paper , and other people were coming in . |
| 20 | When at last we emerged into the open we found ourselves on a plain , perhaps a mile wide , lying between the hills and the river . |
| 21 | So , when at last I came to a small village with a large church , I decided that perhaps the priest might be the best person to tell me where these prehistoric pagans buried their dead . |
| 22 | When at last I broke through the lip and parachuted into the void beyond I turned my head and looked behind . |
| 23 | It was my home for many months , so much so that when at last I was discharged , I was loath to leave . |
| 24 | I knew that when at last I was demobilised from the Waaf I would have to return to my peacetime occupation as a secretary in London , for the simple reason that my employers had been paying me my full salary all the time I had been in the Forces , that is , making up the difference between my Waaf pay and what I would have been earning with them . |
| 25 | Here was I , struggling to free a walnut from its convoluted enclosure , exalting when at last I managed to obtain a whole half rather than a handful of shards , while in the next room was a packet replete with whole halves . |
| 26 | When at last I looked up we 'd almost arrived at the village . |
| 27 | It was a relief when at last I saw someone I knew . |
| 28 | When at last I came to the start of the mad little road to Lochinver , I followed it over the bleak moorland , Stac Polly now appearing as a black spire in a halo of sunlight . |
| 29 | You said it was the only reasonable thing to do , yet now , when at last I agree , you say it 's too late . ’ |
| 30 | When at last it was all over he felt quite sick from the shock . |