Example sentences of "[subord] he [verb] at last " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . |
| 2 | With Angel gone there was no need to humble herself and inquire if he had at last returned to work . |
| 3 | Mr Mitterrand appears so delighted with the ultra-courteous Edouard Balladur , that some Socialists wonder whether he has at last found the prime minister of his dreams . |
| 4 | The Times , once an ardent supporter of Chadwick , was particularly vicious in its appraisal of his administrative career , chortling that Mr Chadwick would receive his final reward ‘ when he falls at last a sanitary martyr to a choked two-inch pipe drain and is carried by policemen … to an extramural cemetery ’ . |
| 5 | ‘ Every man 's death diminishes us , Robert , ’ he observed , ‘ and I 'm sorry that he should die now when he seemed at last to be recovering his dignity . ’ |
| 6 | When he had at last regained consciousness no one had expected him to be more than a vegetable . |
| 7 | When he came at last , he saw it at once . |
| 8 | He sighed heavily , and Belinda was about to ask what was wrong — after all , they were still friends , in spite of what she had seen in the garden tonight , and her revelation of feeling should n't dictate this new reticence — when he spoke at last . |