Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [pron] at last " in BNC.
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1 | I found them at last . |
2 | My eye followed the light cloud of her smoke , now here , now there , above the plain , according to the devious curves of the stream , but always fainter and farther away , till I lost it at last behind the mitre-shaped hill of the great pagoda ( 6 ) . |
3 | Other sentences have a similar type of structure , and tend to end in a similar evocation of vastness and remoteness , as the eye reaches its limit of vision : " under the enormous dome of the sky " ; " the monotonous sweep of the horizon " ; " as if the impassive earth had swallowed her up without an effort , without a tremor " ; " till I lost it at last behind the mitre-shaped hill of the great pagoda " . |
4 | ‘ Now that I have you at last you 'll never be away from me again . ’ |
5 | ‘ She stirred herself at last and wrote , ’ he said as he handed Rose the letter . |
6 | She heard me at last . |
7 | She saw him at last , but she did n't signal back , she clutched her bag and froze , staring , and the man beside her turned round . |
8 | ‘ It 's lovely , ’ she answered him at last , in a brisk , matter-of-fact tone that concealed , she hoped , all that she was feeling . |
9 | During a mad session I finally made one after two weeks of trying and came down and a guy called Matt said ‘ Yeah you did it at last ’ . |
10 | Glaring from one to the other as they stood on either side of the bed , she said crossly to Lucy , ‘ So you 've brought him to see me at last . |
11 | Aware only of the bumping of her heart and the pressuring of his mouth on hers even as he carried her through interminable pathways to the journey 's end , Sarella felt him lower her at last on to his bed . |
12 | After several attempts he got him at last on a bad telephone line . |
13 | What would he do with Harry 's body when he found it at last , but toss it back again to go downstream as he willed it to go , and leave its poor slender bones scattered all along the banks of Severn without a name or a resting-place ? |
14 | He stirred himself at last and looked round , to find one even more worn out with weariness than himself . |