Example sentences of "at last [pron] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So that night , at the disco they told them and at last they believed them and sorted out the magazine thing and changed the magazine to Mysteries from Around the World . |
| 2 | Fred 's car was old and difficult to start , but at last she managed it , and headed out into the street . |
| 3 | At last she touched him , Oh you 're still there , poor . |
| 4 | At last she got it in and turned it and pushed the door . |
| 5 | How long she ran , or how far , she had no idea , but at last she felt she could go no farther . |
| 6 | He appeared to be deep in thought , frowning as he watched the highway ahead , and at last she felt she must say something to break the silence . |
| 7 | He had nagged her about why they did not go to live at the School , instead of letting all those other people live there , and at last she told him why . |
| 8 | At last she found him . |
| 9 | At last she found it . |
| 10 | At last he reached me and asked me to demonstrate el thwing . |
| 11 | At last he saw him and ran to meet him and joyfully welcomed him . |
| 12 | At last he recalled it was not in the Nightingale Gallery but in the one running to the left . |
| 13 | At last he released her , setting her back on her feet as he gazed down into her strangely unfocused eyes . |
| 14 | At last he released her . |
| 15 | At last he had it . |
| 16 | When at last he touched her there , all the longing pent-up within her released itself in a single hoarse cry , and she thrust her fingers into his hair , pulling his head back to hers , her lips parting in an invitation that needed no words . |
| 17 | Then his wife died on the trek and he and his daughter walked into India and asked people everywhere — Did they know where Padre Appleton was ? until at last he tracked us down to Poona . |
| 18 | At last he let her go , and , puffing happily , she straightened her kerchief and skirt . |
| 19 | Were brought back one early morning by a drunken cabman — his red plush waistcoat unbuttoned , white shiny hat toppling on to the pavement , when at last he delivered them . |
| 20 | When the father turned 65 he gave up work , and ‘ at last he found he had a son , as later on in his old age I helped him and Mother all I could . |
| 21 | At last he joined her , shaking the water from his hair and grabbing his towel from the rails where he had left it . |
| 22 | ‘ At last you admit it . ’ |
| 23 | At last I made it — to Hong Kong that is , for the 17th playing of the Cathay Pacific Hongkong Bank Sevens . |
| 24 | At last I judged it time to get off and start walking . |
| 25 | At last I felt I must take action , and I went to the Establishment Branch to ask for a transfer . |
| 26 | I felt relieved once I 'd started because at last I felt I was doing something about my life . |
| 27 | Until at last I saw him shooting off ahead of me in the form of a long lumpy thread , vibrating with moisture , which stretched ectoplasmically into the maw of the shuttling frame . |
| 28 | It then took me a while to realise the significance of it , but at last I remembered it had been around Dora Belle 's neck , the person who murdered Perk and she must have placed it in Perk 's hand when she buried her . |
| 29 | It was not till nine days ago that at last I found her , and saw what she was doing on her isle . ’ |
| 30 | At last I found it in the stern of the barge , a hole the size of a man 's fist as if someone had taken a hammer and smashed through the bottom . |