Example sentences of "[pron] at [num ord] [vb past] his " in BNC.

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1 When we at last learned his name , we had not heard of him at all .
2 This was supposed to have been the event where he at last assumed his rightful position at the summit of the athletics world following his nightmare at the Olympics .
3 It was , for all that , quite a struggle for Ballesteros before he at last got his game together over the closing holes for a halfway total of 143 , two ahead of Olazabal , who was one over par for the 36 holes .
4 There was just feeling , wild and deep , intense pleasure that even bordered on pain , and Maggie 's head was on his shoulder , her eyes locked with his when he at last raised his head and looked down at her bewitched face .
5 They returned in March 1962 ; he at last finished his essay on George Herbert but , before he could start work on a new play , he had to prepare for the press his early graduate thesis on the work of F. H. Bradley .
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