Example sentences of "at last the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In all kinds of ways many bad old practices disappeared , while at last the central administrative overhead came under control . |
| 2 | But in 1877 , the last text overseen by the novelist , ‘ as if spoken to himself ’ becomes ‘ as if meant for himself ’ , shifting and refining nuance while involving the change of a single word in Russian , and enabling the artist to get at last the effect he had been working towards . |
| 3 | Chapman said later that Cleese , his writing partner at Cambridge and afterwards on the Frost , Marty Feldman and At Last the 1948 shows , ‘ was still in a state of shock ’ . |
| 4 | At last the ‘ special relationship ’ seemed to have some meaning , perhaps for the first time since the days of Macmillan . |
| 5 | At last the mattresses are brought out . |
| 6 | And at last the darkroom door swings open |
| 7 | The ironical and fundamental point is that during these post-war years , when international demand for tropical commodities for the first time since 1921 really justified vast investments in the Colonies ; when the Colonies had a huge back-log of demand for essential equipment ; when at last the British government was equipped with power to give or lend considerable sums to top up what the Colonies could afford to invest from their own accumulating surplus ; and when . |
| 8 | At last the formal part of the proceedings is over and the recruits are united with their friends and relations . |
| 9 | She now came under the giant umbrella of the Royal Family and at last the palace was able to give her full protection . |
| 10 | I enjoyed another two years in Kenya but now my work is mission appeals in South West Britain and I have discovered at last the source of our treasure ! |
| 11 | And for Jackson Pollock the champion , always fearful of losing , Lee was at last the judge he could trust . |
| 12 | At last the Eastern Bloc nations might have a chance of catching up with the West , and we owe them a debt . |
| 13 | Fortunately , it usually happened that the rejected lover did not go away , and when at last the heroine was free , there he was , waiting still . |
| 14 | At last the moment came . |
| 15 | Now , forty years on , there was at last the technology — laser-tracking CD video — that would give him the finest sound with the finest picture-resolution in a medium that was compatible with the new domestic sound system that would , by the early 1990s , render the LP largely obsolete . |
| 16 | At last the Barracks loomed into sight , and if anyone had been peeping from the window at that unsociable hour , they might have been hard put to distinguish which was the boy and which the shadow . |
| 17 | At last the Knight ( his Fate had ordered so ) |
| 18 | At last the government recognised what many researchers had been saying for years : that corporal punishment did not address the causes of bad behaviour , caused resentment among older pupils in particular , and was ‘ inimical to the quality of relationships between teachers and pupils upon which good behaviour is based ’ . |
| 19 | But , at last the claret-flavor recalls pretty distinctly its own name , ‘ claret ’ , ‘ that wine I drank at so-and-so 's table ’ , etc. ; and the burgundy-flavor recalls the name ‘ burgundy ’ and someone else 's table ... |
| 20 | At last the track grew level and the valley floor widened into a clearing lined with small board houses . |
| 21 | At last the steep slope flattened and he reached the saddle scattered with quartz . |
| 22 | At last the choruses dropped to a quartet , to a duet , and finally even Lachlan 's fine solo baritone petered out . |
| 23 | And at last the roistering procession when the castle ladies escorted her to her room . |
| 24 | The young starlet in the up and coming writers ' guild , Antonella Black ( What luck , at last the new Jane Suck ) provided one half of one of the most interesting games of verbal tennis with Morrissey to date in Sounds on April 20 1985 . |
| 25 | … on , on , on tears the mad dragon of an engine … scattering in all directions a shower of burning sparks from its wood fire ; screeching , hissing , yelling , panting ; until at last the thirsty monster stops beneath a covered way to drink … and you have time to breathe again . |
| 26 | When at last the government saw how matters were developing , it began to reproach industry for failing to respond to its ‘ anti-inflationary ’ measures . |
| 27 | At last the third letter was complete : — |
| 28 | Once a grass-snake slid across the path in front of her and made her halt sharply with a startled cry , but she went resolutely on again , and at last the trees began to thin out and the patch of sky in front of her widen . |
| 29 | At last the words tumbled out . |
| 30 | She suddenly saw how selfish she had been , and knew at last the answer to the thing that had puzzled her for so long — why her mummy , who had been a keen Brownie Guider and loved Brownies , would n't let her join a Pack . |