Example sentences of "[conj] it finally [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But seconds later both the England striker and his team recovered their self respect when he netted a Samways cross — although it finally went down as an own goal by Higgins . |
| 2 | Although economic recovery led to a resurgence in manufacturing investment after 1983 , it was only in 1988 that it finally surpassed the level achieved at the end of the 1970s . |
| 3 | If there was one ( albeit very small ) consolation about the sale of Dave Batty , it was that it finally did away with an important inferiority complex of mine — was I the only person in West Yorkshire not to be best mates with the man ? ? |
| 4 | And it finally brought about many long anticipated changes , like the decline of America 's auto industry , and the counterbalancing rise of Japan 's . |
| 5 | At the end of the luncheon Major Ronald Ferguson auctioned the brooch designed by Clive Ranger and generously donated , and it finally went to Mr Galen Weston 's bid of £8,500 . |
| 6 | The British insisted that it be worked by British operators — reluctantly agreed to — and it finally entered Australia in the Northern Territories . |
| 7 | The train chugged on northwards , further and further away from the enemy , until it finally came to a halt at Waverley station in Edinburgh . |
| 8 | This had been the message of the monastic reform of the tenth century , which was being rapidly replaced by a new message of organization under papal direction , extending through dioceses and parishes until it finally reached the individual . |
| 9 | The pot of face relations in the US has been simmering and bubbling furiously , until it finally boiled over and hit the burner . |
| 10 | They had a revolutionary theory that the combined effect of all these ‘ struggles ’ would be to needle and irritate the capitalist system until it finally collapsed in an exhausted heap and died . |
| 11 | With its new mode of power , the company continued until it finally closed its doors in September 1982 . |
| 12 | The Company struggled on until it finally closed in 1939 . |
| 13 | He lowered himself gingerly to a gilt chair and stirred his coffee , the spoon circulating slowly until it finally stopped and he sat staring at it . |
| 14 | As this ratio fell , the convertibility of dollars into gold became more and more fragile until it finally snapped ( table 10.7 ) . |
| 15 | Another fishing boat tried to tow the Glenmore back to port in rough seas , but it finally sank ninety miles east of Orkney . |
| 16 | But it finally ended up that we had the whole thing Rousay Egilsay and Wyre . |
| 17 | I remember we used to have an old Labrador cross that used to sleep under the kitchen table , till it finally gave up and died . |
| 18 | Nigel pulled the offending tracksuit out of his case and demonstrated , pinging the elastic till it finally broke . |
| 19 | And although she felt she was being torn apart inside , at the same time the older woman 's brutal candour was welcome , because it finally answered so many unhappy questions . |
| 20 | This was effectively the same as the Spanish Pyrenean of northern Navarre and had already been crossed to a large extent with Limousin and Garonnais before it finally disappeared into the Blonde during the 1960s , leaving only the rare Béarnais as a purebred remnant . |
| 21 | Then , for a while the character was named Tanni , before it finally got changed , on Spooner 's rewrite , to Vicki . |
| 22 | The government promised a White Paper on student finance , but the very long delay before it finally appeared in November 1988 suggests that there were problems in devising a suitable alternative to grants . |
| 23 | The staff admit that a sudden rise in entrances to the zoo was likely to be largely due to an interest by the public who wanted to visit it before it finally closed and they agree that problems remain for the future . |
| 24 | The project was sold twice more before it finally flew again as a modified two-seater , as N9837A . |
| 25 | A transcript of the tape-recording made in the restaurant was a central plank in the prosecution case when it finally came to court eighteen months later . |
| 26 | Julian May 's Jack the Bodiless ( Pan , £4.99 ) was promised for so long that when it finally came out it took everyone by surprise , including the hardback publisher HarperCollins , and it went o.p. within days of publication . |
| 27 | Grainne had known that when it finally came to it , she would be afraid — for I have never known anyone other than Fergus , and with Fergus it was so natural and so sweet — but she had not expected this sudden rush of tenderness . |
| 28 | So much so , that I missed my stop when it finally came round and I ended up stranded in a place called Parliament Hill Fields , where you ca n't get a bus or a tube anywhere except back to the BBC . |
| 29 | One of them , for example , that we 'll be looking next term , Freud 's biography , co-written with Bullitt , on Woodrow Wilson , was called , in one of the major reviews , when it finally came out in nineteen sixty seven , the kind of thing that gets psychoanalysis a bad name . |
| 30 | Then , when it finally dropped from exhaustion , it was killed . |