Example sentences of "that he [vb past] finally [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the contrary , Aubrey 's instant approval of his choice of a wife had added to his own conviction that he had finally made the right decision for his future happiness . |
| 2 | Thankful that he had finally got through . |
| 3 | For ages he had been meaning to call in at a place down by the Elephant and Castle where they sold gramophone parts , but it was not until this morning that he had finally got around to it . |
| 4 | ‘ She hurt him dreadfully when he came home from Africa , crippled and his career in the army over , just when he needed her loving support the most , and now she has the gall to chase him again , when I hoped and prayed that he had finally recovered from her brutal treatment of him . ’ |
| 5 | Perhaps the authorities thought that he had finally knuckled under . |
| 6 | He confessed that he had finally come to terms with the fact that he was a homosexual , after a lifetime of denying it to himself . |
| 7 | He had completely forgotten that this was his twenty-first birthday and that he had finally come of age . |
| 8 | When I heard recently on the radio that he had been arrested in Tasmania the wild fancy occurred that someone had forgotten to de-miniaturise him and that he had finally worked his way through to Australia . |
| 9 | It had taken Carlson some time but he believed that he had finally worked out who was responsible for the ritualistic murders on the planet . |