Example sentences of "finally [vb past] from the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 He finally graduated from the University of Erlangen in 1779 at the age of twenty-four .
3 We finally departed from the house as the pillager 's husband was scrabbling through the kitchen drawers in search of a rubber band he knew he 'd once seen in there somewhere …
4 She finally emerged from the water to see her friend with her bikini-top around her neck and the bottom dangling from one ankle .
5 After 45 minutes they finally emerged from the storm under broken cloud , and then made good time to Rangoon .
6 Or to worry about the thin but penetrating drizzle that greeted him when he finally emerged from the subway .
7 I was sure that I 'd be safe from then when I finally emerged from the city on the far side — it was n't likely that rats would abe allowed too close to the Divine Sanctum — but I could n't yet see any sign of a far side .
8 She kept him waiting and when she finally emerged from the stage door he had been waylaid by Freddie Reynalde .
9 When we finally emerged from the mouth of the tributary it was evident that the Thames was in flood .
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