Example sentences of "[pron] had at last " in BNC.
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| 1 | And thus it was that she came to be , on that February evening , poised at the very crown of the hill in Kensington Gardens , looking down the hill , with her back to Bayswater and home and trembling with the fear that she had at last grown up . |
| 2 | No one had wanted to believe that Paula 's beauty went right through her more than Sally did for she was a shining golden idol as well as a sister and it had been a shock to Sally when she had at last been forced to concede , in private at least , that the other girls might have been right in the accusations they made . |
| 3 | Here on this sea-scoured coast she had at last found a place which she was content to call home . |
| 4 | Now , however , her husband had a motor-car — the first Cork Jew to possess one — and as they drove to the synagogue , their distinguished visitor , Karlinsky , beside her in the back seat , she felt she had at last come into her kingdom . |
| 5 | Blanche was happy as she walked out , confident at the end of the afternoon that she had at last found an explanation for Tatyana Nowak 's suicide , and the first direct link between a particular human being and the murder . |
| 6 | But when he caught up with Chuck , who had at last relented and allowed his breathless coolie to slow to a trot , he found the older boy grinning and lolling casually in his seat , obviously suffering no such pangs of conscience . |
| 7 | We had at last taken off from Nassau and were banking north to where three American warships sliced white water . |
| 8 | Which is a bit more of the , I think , the discussion we had at last Committee and at the Council . |
| 9 | It pandered to their inflated notion of their own importance ; and the restiveness of the working class during this early phase of Russian industrialization gave them renewed hope that they had at last found a willing instrument for their revolutionary dreams . |
| 10 | They had at last somehow got together in bed in a house momentarily empty of other people , neither of them expected ( momentarily ) elsewhere . |
| 11 | He also spoke of lying awake and listening for the flying bombs , and noting the difference in volume between one explosion and another , and then , on hearing one more definite in sound , concluding that , as in the old artillery box-barrage , they had at last ‘ got the range ’ . |
| 12 | Because the disaster revealed something about the basic nature of the Soviet system , at a moment when it had at last become possible to do something about that system , the political consequences may prove the most profound of all . |
| 13 | War began with an unsuccessful attempt to return to the city-plundering strategy of the previous century , went on with a great commerce-raiding voyage round the world by Anson , and ( not before it had at last ended the trading career of the South Sea Company ) was swallowed up by the more far-flung clash of British and French . |
| 14 | It had at last been able to start building a hall of residence which had been in abeyance for six years , and the Director was underlining that student accommodation was in short supply in Teesside , and ‘ unless something is done by the provision of fiats , hostels , etc. , to supplement the supply of digs , I can see this being a factor which could really inhibit our development ’ . |
| 15 | After much hesitation he had at last begun work on an autobiography which , sadly , remains unfinished . |
| 16 | He was glad he had at last found someone who believed in his natural superiority . |
| 17 | By 15 October 1796 , almost a month after the birth of his son David Hartley Coleridge , he had at last reached a decision . |
| 18 | ‘ Sheisse , ’ he added explosively as if he had at last allowed himself to be convinced of something which he had wanted to believe for a long time . |
| 19 | With Angel gone there was no need to humble herself and inquire if he had at last returned to work . |
| 20 | Instead the address which he had at last been persuaded to give was in a short and narrow street off the Edgware Road , an enclave of cheap , unsmart cafés chiefly Goan and Greek . |
| 21 | But there had been little doubt he would go from the moment Micheal Hurley had called during the Thanksgiving holiday to say he had at last been funded for a major operation in the Middle East and would Coleman be interested in going back to Cyprus as a DEA contractor ? |
| 22 | For some time now he had been certain that he had at last evolved a diction appropriate both to the requirements of classical epic and to the subtleties of the alchemical process . |
| 23 | He had at last accepted her as a friend and began whining and wriggling with pleasure as she approached . |
| 24 | ‘ Yes , she does look better , ’ replied Melissa , thinking that the return of Rodney 's jacket must have convinced Eleanor that he had at last been eliminated from police enquiries . |
| 25 | When he had at last regained consciousness no one had expected him to be more than a vegetable . |
| 26 | He was unhappy but he felt he had at last sorted his life out . |
| 27 | After an hour or so , wearied — as the combatants themselves had at last become — by the futility of it all , she abandoned her task and drove back to Roziac . |