Example sentences of "finally [vb pp] [adv prt] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Indeed , by the time Lord Darlington had finally come round to bidding his guests rise and drink to ‘ peace and justice in Europe ’ , the level of such noises — perhaps on account of the liberal amounts of wine that had been consumed — struck me as bordering on the ill-mannered . |
| 4 | MRS Thatcher 's friends tell me that she has finally come around to the idea of going to the Lords after the election . |
| 5 | After years of anticipation , the Taiwanese-backed NuTek USA Corp in Cupertino , California has finally come down to the wire with its Macintosh-compatible technology : the company claims that it has developed the first machine that emulates the Macintosh without requiring installation of Apple Computer Inc 's proprietary ROMs . |
| 6 | CROWDS of starving Muslims , mostly women and children , cheered and wept yesterday as a long-delayed United Nations aid convoy loaded with food and medicine finally won through to the besieged eastern Bosnian town of Srebrenica . |
| 7 | It was in 1982 that TMAM finally moved in to the airfield , taking over two pre-fabricated huts that had been part of the Station in the late 1940s and early 1950s . |
| 8 | Neither of them spoke as Dalgliesh negotiated the track and finally turned on to the higher road . |
| 9 | Palo Alto , California-based Neuron Data Inc has finally got around to releasing version 2.0 of its Open Interface in the UK ( UX No 386 ) . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | To her surprise , the gunfire did n't seem to be directed at them , and she wondered if the rebels and soldiers had finally got around to fighting each other directly . |
| 12 | Tim found out the appalling details of his wife 's killing when he finally got through to Elizabeth 's fiance Cuan Cronje . |
| 13 | However , before racing ceases to be a single-parent sport , the Jockey Club deserves full credit for not only having forged ahead with the Sunday fixtures but also firing the well-aimed salvos that finally got through to the Government the iniquities of the level of VAT being charged on the breeding , rearing and racing of bloodstock in this country compared with France and Ireland . |
| 14 | It had been he himself , Lewis , who had finally got on to the man there who was in the process of completing the proofs for the forthcoming seminal opus entitled Pre-Conquest Craftsmanship in Southern Britain , by Theodore S. Kemp , MA , DPhil ; the man who had been closeted with Kemp that fateful morning , and who had confirmed that Kemp had not left the offices until about 12.30 p.m . |
| 15 | Owing to a bizarre mix-up between a Japanese morse operator in the South China Sea , and new early closing times at Whaddon Post Office , when football finally got back to normal in 1946 , Athletico , now fielding eleven internationals , found themselves in the Mid-Counties Combination instead of the higher Mid-Counties South-West League ( Northern Division ) . |
| 16 | As he had finally got back to Mrs Lorimer 's and was washing his face , he was wondering how much of the dirty water of the drug scene had washed over Rose and Steve . |
| 17 | The argument comes just months after the ancient writings were finally opened up to scholars around the world , and it centres on a single phrase . |
| 18 | Once upon a time that was just ‘ Paris ’ which , in dilute form , finally filtered down to the local ladies ' modes . |
| 19 | The remainder of L Detachment finally clambered on to the trucks of Jake Easonsmith 's patrol and were taken to the LRDG base at Siwa Oasis , just to the north of the Great Sand Sea . |
| 20 | At the other end of the scale GM 's long-expressed desire to achieve significant sales of its US cars in Europe has finally settled down to more realistic levels . |
| 21 | By Paul Byrne chief reporter A GROUP of British Rail workers who were being paid thousands of pounds to do nothing have finally gone back to work . |
| 22 | He took up rowing in a wherry , and finally worked up to a single shell . |
| 23 | Then his eyes finally flicked back to his secretary . |