Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] finally [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The drivers had finally agreed to race : more or less coerced by their bosses ( including McLaren ) , 99 per cent of whom care rather less about safety than they should . |
| 2 | Ken did n't look up until he 'd finished the story he was reading and only then when his lips had finally stopped moving . |
| 3 | She waited until the glare of the headlights hid finally faded from view . |
| 4 | The planners had finally given permission for Coca-Cola to build a bottling plant on this fifty acre site . |
| 5 | In an interview on Feb. 4 , the Prince said that the Khmers Rouges had finally accepted the change " because they are aware they have become more and more isolated and hated on the international level " . |
| 6 | After the war , the Church Commissioners had finally decided that the existing huge Victorian house was unmanageable and uneconomic , and had sold the site to a developer on the understanding that a maisonette on the ground and first floor should be made over , in perpetuity , to house the parish priest . |
| 7 | Time was running out , however , and by the late 1880s , both Dunkirk and Days had finally closed . |
| 8 | Beside a muddy pool in a shadow-dappled patch of jungle where faint feeding tracks had finally petered out , he lowered himself onto a fallen log . |
| 9 | Suddenly there was a ring at the gate ; the police officers had finally arrived . |
| 10 | Because the blinkers had finally fallen from her eyes when he had asked her if it could be worse . |
| 11 | That was when they had sent for Captain Freddie , and after what he described as a long , sometimes ‘ vair ackermonious diskussion ’ , and after a good deal of long distance telephoning , fax instructions had finally come through that allowed the Chileans to accept his decision as to what was required . |
| 12 | As she listened it seemed to rise in intensity so that she could imagine , with an agreeable frisson of simulated terror , that the low friable cliffs had finally crumbled and that the white foaming turbulence was rolling towards them across Alex 's face . |
| 13 | The kapu system of priestly prohibitions and sanctions had finally disintegrated in 1819 , but new taboos rushed in to take the place of the old . |
| 14 | ‘ That afternoon the matron of Abigail 's hospital rang from Bristol to tell us her lungs had finally got the better of her heart and she 'd died an hour ago . |
| 15 | To her surprise , the gunfire did n't seem to be directed at them , and she wondered if the rebels and soldiers had finally got around to fighting each other directly . |
| 16 | Five years after being kidnapped in Beirut the last of the US hostages had finally come home . |
| 17 | Troglodytes in Records had finally unearthed the seventeen-year-old Inez Glynn file . |
| 18 | A third round of peace talks had finally begun on Sept. 4 , and after a two-day break were resumed on Sept. 18 in the Venezuelan capital Caracas [ see pp. 38283 ; 38387 for previous peace rounds ] . |
| 19 | We argued that Western rulers had finally taken out against Saddam not because he was a monster but because he had broken loose and was no longer their monster . |
| 20 | But what proved conclusively that too many of the little grey cells had finally dissolved to mush was the fact that I still stayed there after I heard the shooting . |