Example sentences of "finally [vb past] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After twice refusing , he finally agreed to the demand of a petition of over 10,000 names asking for a session of the inquiry to be held in Bristol . |
| 2 | Last week , when drafts of the latest NIH report began to circulate , Dr Baltimore finally asked for the Cell paper to be retracted . |
| 3 | when I finally got to the start line at 9.41 am I started to pick my way through the crowd , with difficulty . |
| 4 | ‘ We spent an hour and a half at the post office in Middlesbrough before we finally got into the sorting office to find that 2,500 of our 36,000 leaflets had not been sent out . |
| 5 | After going to the ticket office and being refused a refund , he finally got into the ground at 3.35pm . |
| 6 | ‘ If physicists had tried to discover a way to release nuclear energy before 1939 , they would have worked on anything else rather than the field which finally led to the discovery of fission , namely radiochemistry . |
| 7 | Galliéni returned to Paris , but later again reached Joffre by telephone and , with passionate argument , finally wrung from the Commander-in-Chief acceptance for his plan to strike north of the River Marne . |
| 8 | No-one else in our aircraft appeared to be the least bit concerned , but my relief as we finally drew near the coast of England again and then began our descent to the safety of solid earth was so great that I made a little promise to myself that I would never again set foot in an aeroplane , so long as I could be permitted to survive this one trip . |
| 9 | Franco 's concern not to risk backing the wrong side in a European war was also reflected in Spain 's official position with regard to the conflict when it finally erupted in the autumn of 1939 . |
| 10 | On Monday she finally knelt on the ground where he was killed and placed a wreath to his memory . |
| 11 | When I finally moved at the end of September , it was an enormous step in my life . |
| 12 | It 's probably that Robert Johnson , who finally headed for the crossroads in 1938 , made more money for Sony/Columbia last year than many of their more super-hyped contemporary acts . |
| 13 | The origins of this transformation may be traced back into the late 19th century but the upheaval finally came at the time of Vietnam , flower-power and the campus revolutions . |
| 14 | I finally came to the churchyard , ‘ Titty-Bottle Park ’ , where there were literally dozens of kids running about the tombstones . |
| 15 | Repeated many times over , the words of Luhnenschloss finally came to the notice of the RSPCA last year and were used as part of further discussions it was on the point of entering into with the Jockey Club in the hope of further reform . |
| 16 | After seeing Mr Stephens disappear around the corner , she examined the small room minutely , the books on the shelf — reading out all their titles aloud — the three prints on the wall , " The Education of the Young Raleigh " , " Derwentwater at Dawn " and " The Drunkard 's Children " — drew her boots appreciatively over the mat , picked up the jug of pencils and finally came to the oven which was next to the sink . |
| 17 | When they finally arrived at the cathedral , the world held its collective breath and Diana , with her father leaning heavily on her arm , walked with painful slowness down the aisle . |
| 18 | A police car finally arrived at the scene and officers spoke to the motorist . |
| 19 | Baldwin finally arrived at the Palace at 3.00 p.m . |
| 20 | When the unpleasant severed object finally arrived at the hospital a nurse said brightly , normally one would , fingers crossed ! |
| 21 | We finally arrived at the house . |
| 22 | I plagued him till he finally arrived in the gloom of night with his needle and re-did the test virtually on the tube on the way home . |
| 23 | In doing this , Carvajal and his colleagues finally threw off the disguise of Roman Catholicism , which by then must have worn very thin . |
| 24 | Texas Instruments Inc finally threw in the towel on the wasting asset of its computer business , and signed a letter of intent to sell it to Hewlett-Packard Co on undisclosed terms . |
| 25 | He finally graduated from the University of Erlangen in 1779 at the age of twenty-four . |
| 26 | In 1316 , however , the southern clergy met three times before they finally capitulated towards the end of the year and authorized the collection of a tenth ; even then , it was to be delivered in two moieties , one in 1317 , the other in 1318 . |
| 27 | At Mach 1.2 , the Foxbat finally sloughed off the world of sound with a dull , ominous rumble , and Vologsky surged with new enthusiasm and excitement , happy to be in perfect control of one of the fastest flying machines in the world . |
| 28 | Even that proved not enough to save her ; less than a year after her father 's passing , she finally succumbed to the illness which had beset her for so long , and was laid to rest at St John 's . |
| 29 | First , she contended that her husband put her under undue pressure to sign and that she finally succumbed to the pressure . |
| 30 | Marseille 's dour defence — inspired by the belligerent Basile Boli — had been so assured , but finally succumbed in the face of the first really intelligent attack they had been forced to face . |