Example sentences of "[prep] finally [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the time she got up , after finally falling into a heavy , dreamless sleep just before dawn , Rachel had a headache and felt thoroughly wretched at the thought of what might be to come . |
| 2 | Northampton finished fourth , after finally ending the Norwich jinx with a 3–1 home win in the last game of the season , which brought a visit by 800 members of Norwich Supporters Club . |
| 3 | Having been abseiled onto while soloing , had my runners pulled on by top-ropers and queued while large parties top-roped routes too hard for them , the BMC can only be congratulated for finally taking the matter in hand with an award for single pitch supervisors . |
| 4 | All I can do now is praise the NME for finally showing him to be the xenophobic shit that he really is . |
| 5 | Bravo Toshiba for finally introducing a sensible notebook mouse . |
| 6 | Full marks go to Durham County Council and ultimately the Department of the Environment for finally ensuring the waste will be taken and dumped elsewhere . |
| 7 | First , though , give him the benefit of a voluntary defence , possibly against Alex Stewart , and then let him get on with making us all feel good about finally having another British world heavyweight champion . |
| 8 | Despite finally realising his dream of becoming world champion , Mansell quit Formula One last year after an acrimonious row with the Williams team over his contract . |
| 9 | This was important , for Bonar Law 's health was on the point of finally breaking up . |
| 10 | Stalinist And once again the mad axemen from Wapping and elsewhere will be sharpening their stilettos ( knives not heels ) in the hope of finally despatching the manager they see as a soccer Satanist . |
| 11 | There is no chance of finally learning anything during a lecture , but there is a good chance that difficulties encountered in the study can be illuminated . |
| 12 | And the Blackburn star insisted : ‘ Now I am playing under Kenny Dalglish I feel my chances of finally achieving my ambition of playing for Scotland must be enhanced . |
| 13 | Many religions have codes of dress or behaviour that particularly affect girls ; some may seem restrictive , but Yasmin feels that covering herself is not repressive but liberating ; her sense of finally feeling ‘ right ’ is enormous . |
| 14 | Even the pain of finally finding out that he and Harry Martin were painted with the same filthy brush did n't hurt as much as that careless indictment . |
| 15 | Now they hope they 're on the verge of finally finding out what happened to her . |
| 16 | I had another serious battle getting approval for the M54 to Telford — the only road I know of finally settled at a full meeting of a Cabinet committee . |
| 17 | KEN BATES 's hopes of finally winning his 10-year battle for Stamford Bridge hit trouble yesterday when Hammersmith and Fulham council opposed the Chelsea chairman 's ground-sharing plan . |
| 18 | They argue , somewhat surprisingly , that it is a mistake to meet it by trying to ‘ upgrade the imagined simulation in hopes of finally winning Searle 's concession that at last its states have achieved intrinsic intentionality ’ . |
| 19 | This meant the knife ; bones were broken : what about my prospects of finally climbing Minus One Direct ? |
| 20 | The latter will always heavily tilt the balance towards finally meeting one 's obligations to the employer . |
| 21 | The man behind finally let go , and screamed , Susan was overcome , and floated up beside me . |
| 22 | There are numerous cloughs worth exploring in the Dark Peak , but some of the most impressive can be linked by a demanding outing starting from Greenfield on the west of Black Hill , taking in major cloughs on Bleaklow and Kinder before finally scrambling down the head of the Grindsbrook above Edale . |
| 23 | Insecurity , hunger , constant vilification and injustice were their lot , and it was as exhausted escapees that they made their way from Europe via Liverpool to Halifax ( then the most important port on the Atlantic coast ) , before finally settling in Montreal . |
| 24 | They had difficulty finding a drummer and went through 10 in a year , recording several demo tapes with different people , before finally settling on Shaun Charman . |
| 25 | Katherine wandered back into her bedroom and lazily sorted through her wardrobe , before finally settling on a simple gown of heavy blue satin that was at least two seasons out of date , but which served to hide her fuller figure as she refused to wear a corset . |
| 26 | Other aspects of distortion need to be taken into account before finally trying to sort out what the information indicates . |
| 27 | Still detached from the actual sensations , she described how he had gone under the water and then come to the surface again several times before finally drowning . |
| 28 | You can then watch them go through their larval and pupal stages before finally hatching out as adults . |
| 29 | And there it teetered for a few seconds before finally toppling over and falling with a sharp tinkle on to the desk-top . |
| 30 | The Volvo left the ground for precious seconds , flying through the air before finally crashing back down to earth with a sickening jolt that jarred every bone in her body . |