Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb mod] [prep] last " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remember how happy I was when I was accepted at Hamburg University , because I could at last get away from my mother 's asparagus dishes . ’ |
| 2 | I 'm afraid that later in this book I shall at last blow her cover — I know she will forgive me . |
| 3 | I feel I shall at last be in the hands of someone who will bring me back to health , to life . |
| 4 | ‘ If I had n't known you could by last night , ’ she retorted , ‘ I 'd have got me a spare staff nurse even if it had meant taking this bloody hospital apart . |
| 5 | She 'd been so certain that , as the years went by , she would at last have broken free of his spell . |
| 6 | When the results of these tests are finally known we may at last know for sure whether dinosaurs were warm-blooded or not . |
| 7 | Today , one hundred years after his death , we may at last be approaching a sufficient understanding to bring to fruition Darwin 's proposal . |
| 8 | Armed with these and other detailed structural pictures , we may at last be able to get a handle on some of the many and complex eukaryotic transcriptional control mechanisms at the molecular level . |
| 9 | We must at last face the question as to whether the time is right to discard the nation state . |
| 10 | Names are named , and we could at last see blood on the shelves . |
| 11 | The fact that our captors were confident and considerate enough to let us have the radio was almost as encouraging as the news we could at last listen to after two years of silence . |
| 12 | In addition , they promised , we 'd at last learn the real reason why Bobby Orton walked off the field against Burnhope . |
| 13 | If they are , we will at last be able to see the countryside put back into countryside management . |
| 14 | By the same token , we can at last begin to see an effective mechanism for identifying special learning needs , at either end of the educational spectrum . |
| 15 | But we can at last find the bed in our room . |
| 16 | We can at last give the Proof of Theorem 1.4.4 Let S denote the set of all positive integers of the form ma + nb where m , n are free to range over the whole of Z. Then clearly at least one of a , -a , b , -b belong to S. [ Why ? ] |
| 17 | All the drivers are exciting , and people who are stuck in this pattern of behaviour often have an incentive to stay in it — they feel that one day they will succeed , they will finally be perfect , they will at last please everyone ; they will prove that they can get everything done more quickly than everyone else , and they 'll know that they can undertake anything under the most difficult conditions . |
| 18 | We are pleased to see that at least the Labour Party now are deciding that they can at last work with the Government . |
| 19 | It was n't , however , until summer had faded that he could at last feel he was his own man again and was able to address himself to the present . |
| 20 | Oh it used to last all day . |
| 21 | Eyes bulging from a purple , blue-lipped face , he would at last draw in a tortuous gasp of air and the whole process would begin again . |
| 22 | Every new Northern Ireland Secretary takes office bearing the slender hopes of the British people that he will at last prove the man who can draw forth the sword from the stone , and translate into reality the ritual expressions of faith about restoring peace to the province . |
| 23 | Often girls in this situation are not only skilful in concealing their pregnancy through the loose style of clothes they wear , but remain physically small — that is , until finally the truth is out , and suddenly their pregnancy also seems to expand , as if with relief that it can at last be public . |