Example sentences of "finally [vb pp] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the moderates finally marched out and surrendered their authority to Cromwell , the radical remnant called Moyer to the Speaker 's chair and sat on until the military evicted them . |
| 2 | Despite John 's wishes , when the company was finally registered only Jennie and Doris Alloway were listed as directors with Mr Smith as secretary . |
| 3 | They were finally completed yesterday . |
| 4 | On 4 April 1991 , the very day the children were finally flown home to Orkney , the government announced it had commissioned an Inquiry to establish the extent — if any — of ritual sexual abuse of children . |
| 5 | The bass player was finally flown home from Milan , however The Cure opted to continue their European dates with temporary replacement Shellyan Orphan bass player Roberto Soave . |
| 6 | After many years languishing in the backwaters of Xerox 's Palo Alto Research Centre the page description language has finally blossomed forth , although not , it must be said , from Xerox . |
| 7 | Baron Grimm , with whom Mozart had finally fallen out , arranged for his departure on a slow , cheap coach , which took 10 days to reach Strasbourg . |
| 8 | ‘ This thing has been smouldering for years and now it 's finally broken through . |
| 9 | Lesley saw it more as a letting-off of repressed energy : ‘ I think this thing has been smouldering for years and now it 's finally broken through . |
| 10 | That afternoon , hearing him talk about his sister , then lying beneath the trees with him , she had really thought she had finally broken through to a real live human being beneath the glacial exterior . |
| 11 | When finally broken down , DEC 's 1992 figures are likely to show that an even greater percentage of its workstation business was carried out on VAX/VMS than in 1991 . |
| 12 | In this way , the traditionally self-enforced , and for some , archaic separation between the commercial banking and securities business was finally broken down , discarded in favour of a more open and competitive regime . |
| 13 | X-rays showed there was no serious damage to the skull , but Dr Volkov had remained unconscious for some time after the door had been finally broken down . |
| 14 | After a little while they got back to me and says right one 's finally broken down , the seventeen year old , it took them an hour and an half , we 've broke him down he 's admitted he 's done it . |
| 15 | As their 35ft yacht , the Blue Doublet , bobbed about on the choppy waters , Commander Tim Laurence finally plucked up the courage to pop the question . |
| 16 | Plummer finally plucked up the receiver . |
| 17 | The sobs came less frequently , then finally stopped altogether . |
| 18 | If it was the battery it must have finally given up the ghost , because there was n't even the faintest wheeze or whisper from the starter motor . |
| 19 | The rack shelving , together with its load of books and ornaments , had finally given up its unequal struggle with the force of gravity . |
| 20 | The company that had previously tried to fix the pool had finally given up , so Enterprise was called in to the rescue . |
| 21 | At this time Klaus announced that he would stand for the post of Czech ( rather than federal ) Prime Minister , a move described by the Independent of June 19 as the " clearest possible sign that the Czechs have finally given up on the federation which they had fought for " . |
| 22 | And eventually you you either do and he drives off and nearly runs into rams into a lamppost or something like that on his way when he 's finally given up , or else sometimes as I say they get together and er everything 's hunkydory . |
| 23 | Having prohibited party politics on the grounds that it fostered corruption , patronage and tribalism , Rawlings had finally given in to domestic and international pressure for a return to multiparty politics . |
| 24 | When the earth had been finally pressed down round the tree roots , Peter Dawson had put his arm round his wife 's tiny waist and they had surveyed their handiwork with obvious satisfaction . |
| 25 | After being ignored by streams of tight-lipped Brits , the Goldsmiths graduate finally amassed almost 400 portraits , a selection of which are on display at the Marconi Gallery in Milan this month . |
| 26 | It was not until the twenty third of May of nineteen ninety that she was finally discharged home to the care of her parents . |
| 27 | As generally happens , his mother-in-law finally caught up with him and , having obtained a special licence from the Court , arranged for him to be imprisoned for twelve years . |
| 28 | USER FRIENDLY 's long , hard season finally caught up with her yesterday when she could manage only sixth in the Japan Cup . |
| 29 | The four assassins finally caught up with Tyrion and his charge , coming upon their camp by night . |
| 30 | When Valiant finally caught up with her in a Medway marina she was found to be clean . |