Example sentences of "[vb past] finally [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Lotty and Rose finally arrived , they were discomfited to find Mrs Fisher , a formidable widow , and Lady Dester , a bored society beauty trying to escape male attention , already in residence . |
| 2 | You found sometimes that other rules were n't required because that rule new rule that you 'd finally developed encompassed other classes of events . |
| 3 | He moved incredibly slowly , zombie-ish , as if he 'd been a patient in there since before the flood and they 'd finally decided to let him out for some fresh air . |
| 4 | She 'd finally realised that what she needed was to commit mind , body and soul into something challenging and exciting . |
| 5 | By some miracle , the 2CV had n't been towed away when I 'd finally dragged Ash out ; we 'd made it to the M1 , picked up a hitcher and — rather beyond the call of duty , I 'd have said — dropped him where he was going , in Coventry . |
| 6 | His students thought he 'd finally flipped and started telling fairy stories , but this was no fairy story , this was a real Gothic Horror . |
| 7 | Ace was beginning to think he 'd finally flipped . |
| 8 | Not only had I gained the technical degree I 'd been chasing , but I 'd finally achieved a position in a business when I could use that expertise to its full potential . |
| 9 | You did n't fall in love with someone in the space of a few days , just because you 'd finally succumbed to the lures of sex , or lust , or whatever had overwhelmed her ever since he 'd fished her out of the sea that first night … |
| 10 | Lewis , standing at the front gate , had managed to catch most of the exchanges ; had watched Mrs Williams as she 'd finally turned away from Morse in tearful distress . |
| 11 | On trips into London after we 'd finally moved to Wales , I would raid skips and bring back the booty on the car roof-rack . |
| 12 | I held up the intact bottle of rice wine I 'd finally recovered from the depths of my parka . |
| 13 | The authorities would think you 'd finally cracked under the pressure of what had happened to your family . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'd finally won custody of my daughter Eva and we had just moved down from Scotland to Leeds with my boyfriend Glynn . |
| 15 | But I was glad that I 'd finally had sex — it was a way of proving that my parents and Uncle Joe had n't destroyed my life . |
| 16 | His head , when I 'd finally looked at him , was turned away from me towards his companions , as was Daffodil 's also . |
| 17 | But after we 'd pulled over and Jeffrey Bernard had been unwell on the pavement , after the police car had been persuaded to leave us alone , and after we 'd finally got that hefty brute of a Bill Ellis Trophy fully upright again — in its carrying case and everything — I was at least able to start thinking partially straight again . |
| 18 | The umpire , who 'd finally got control of his pony , gave Rutshire a penalty . |
| 19 | That was what Josey had told Lisa when she 'd finally got home , flush-faced and anxious , still upset from her angry encounter with Alexander Vass and worried sick about little Emily . |
| 20 | I 'd got a baby — forty-two hours in labour , but I 'd finally got a baby . |
| 21 | No one was jumping for joy because they 'd finally got the piece they 'd been searching for for years . |
| 22 | She 'd finally drifted off to sleep at about two , woken an hour later feeling cold and slipped under the covers , resting fitfully until room service brought her breakfast at eight . |
| 23 | It had been a sweet night — the shadows growing deeper as they 'd talked , until she 'd finally drifted off to sleep with his arms tight about her and his lips on her hair . |
| 24 | I thought that after all these years I 'd finally tamed her . |
| 25 | Was he worried that she 'd finally found her proof that he was hand in glove with Harry Martin ? |
| 26 | She waited until the glare of the headlights hid finally faded from view . |
| 27 | The royal marriage had finally ended . |
| 28 | About halfway across the Channel a man in a plastic mackintosh came back to a nearby table and announced that the rain had finally stopped — just our luck , he added . |
| 29 | Feeling a little better now that the weight was off her feet and the room had finally stopped swimming around her , Lisa watched him through lowered lashes as he phoned down his order . |
| 30 | Ken did n't look up until he 'd finished the story he was reading and only then when his lips had finally stopped moving . |