Example sentences of "he finally [vb past] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he finally died of alcoholism , she returned to the only job she knew , dancing . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Thus , on 10th April 1191 , he finally sailed from Sicily . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He had never seen that happen before , and decided to get it checked when he finally returned to England . |
| 8 | In 1903 he finally returned to England . |
| 9 | When he finally returned to power , he was careful not to preside over the new Gaullist party , the UNR , in the same direct way that he had led the RPF . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | When Michael saw the happy faces on Christmas Day , the food that seemed inexhaustible and the merriment his gifts had brought , he finally came to terms with himself . |
| 12 | He finally went to bed , cursing himself for his own sentimentality , certain the feeling was due to tiredness and jet-lag , no more . |
| 13 | Having collected minerals widely in northern Europe , he finally settled in Copenhagen , where he became a well-known collector , dealer , and tutor in mineralogy . |
| 14 | He finally withdrew with Rupert and , like him , was at length formally reconciled to the king , being pardoned on 3 April 1646 and created baronet on 11 June . |
| 15 | As he finally demonstrated over Cuba , he did not think Communist domination was worth the ruin of civilization . |
| 16 | In September of 1155 he finally departed for Germany , to embark upon a further programme of reorganisation in his homeland . |
| 17 | But he finally slipped into Sydney and left having signed a lucrative new deal to assist Australian rugby 's new television broadcaster , Channel Ten , with their marketing of rugby for the next three years . |
| 18 | He finally stumbled into camp four , nine hours later than expected . |
| 19 | The vicar would never have agreed to any kind of mock funeral , but he finally yielded to Midge 's plea that some intercession should be made for the souls of the unknown man and woman whose charred corpses lay in the refrigerator at the mortuary . |
| 20 | When he finally turned into Brunel Road and stopped to catch his breath the others were nowhere to be seen . |
| 21 | When he finally arrived in Calcutta he was not of course allowed to stay with us at the Sisters , which puzzled you children , but he stayed with the Oxford Mission Fathers and came over every day to see us , until a kindly businessman heard about us and took us along to his palatial house until we could decide what next to do . |
| 22 | It was in fact more than a week later that he finally arrived in Switham . |
| 23 | He had things to learn before he finally pushed for home . |