Example sentences of "at last [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it was only after John had given up playing that Palace at last fell out of the 1st Division , so it was only right that in September 1974 the club gave him a richly deserved Testimonial for his magnificent services . |
| 2 | The International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) has at last faced up to this in its latest World Economic Outlook . |
| 3 | Have the drug companies at last come up with something approaching a m little miracle ? |
| 4 | Next afternoon , when Bridhe was just starting to panic , Lachlan 's galley at last drove in from Glensanda , red and green pennants brave in the breeze . |
| 5 | At last get around to unpacking bags , back at home . |
| 6 | But companies are at last cottoning on to this , and beginning to produce equipment that does n't just make sense to the MIDI-literate studio engineer , but can be incorporated into guitarists ' setups and actually used . |
| 7 | I only wish that my father could know that I 'm at last setting up on my own … |
| 8 | ‘ I 've got a research grant , ’ he explains to the man sitting next to him , who is wearing a dark grey lightweight non-iron suit , with a pale pink shirt and polka dotted silk tie , as they at last climb out through the heat haze , and undo their seat belts . |
| 9 | But in the Japanese Empire she at last came up against an eastern power developing at a rate comparable to her own , and one capable of offering effective resistance . |
| 10 | She ventured at last to sit back on her heels , let her hands lie in her lap , and listen . |
| 11 | Fifteen ships of the line , caught by the flood-tide , were carried into the unprotected bays of Cherbourg and La Hogue , where , on Sunday 22 May , Russell at last caught up with them . |
| 12 | There were some engineers who wanted more experimentation and more rapid adoption of larger sizes or re-heat , arguing that , while Britain had at last caught up with American levels of thermal efficiency in 1938 , she was now again falling behind . |
| 13 | The free market philosophy set in train by Mrs Thatcher when she became Prime Minister in 1979 has at last caught up with milk , writes MAGNUS GRIMOND |
| 14 | From July the Central Statistical Office ( 650 ) will at last live up to its name . |
| 15 | We bore a letter of introduction from Werner Meyer to Puang Ranteallo , son of the late king — whom we at last tracked down in an astonishing arena . |
| 16 | Ranald , his shyness fading , started on a long story of honey and ants and his mother 's bed , that set Hector smiling , then chuckling , and at last rolling about with laughter . |
| 17 | ‘ What have you learned , Lili ? ’ asked my mother , at last sitting down with a cup of tea before her . |
| 18 | When David said nothing , she waited and then at last looked up at him . |
| 19 | Her pack slapped against her back as she jumped down beside Defries , reminding her that she was at last running out of supplies : there had been few explosives on the shuttle . |
| 20 | The world is at last waking up to the dangers threatening us all . |
| 21 | Germany is at last waking up to the what has been clear to outsiders for the past year or so , that there is going to be no quick fix to the recession it is facing and that it will be long and grinding : this week the BDI industrial federation admitted that the downturn could develop into Germany 's worst recession since the end of World War II , saying that the western German economy will continue to decline , and the fall will be deeper than previously thought , so that in important sectors such as the capital goods industry the downturn will represent a new post-war record ; the body blames weak foreign demand for German goods , the now over-valued mark and rising costs for German industry and now admits it is the result of structural problems that will have long-term economic effects . |
| 22 | Having settled all the necessary arrangements , the couple at last set off from Sydney on 14 September for Newcastle , and the mouth of the Hunter River . |
| 23 | In chapter 11 for nearly two years after labour problems , and crippled further by the Gulf war , America 's Eastern Air Lines at last closed down after 62 years in the air . |
| 24 | Anyway I 'm delighted to see we 've at last got round to this . |
| 25 | He staggered slowly towards the Monument and at last sat down opposite Jack 's stepfather with painful slowness . |
| 26 | The brewers have at last woken up to the fact that their high-street shops have become dinosaurs slouching towards extinction . |
| 27 | IBM Corp has at last woken up to the fact that to remain competitive in the personal computer business , it is necessary constantly to add new models , and in the US , the company yesterday added new 80486-based PS/1 models based on chips ranging from the 25MHz 80486SX to the 66MHz 80486DX2 ; they come in desktop and minitower configurations and are available now at prices expected to go from $1,200 to $3,000 ; they are upgradable to the Pentium . |
| 28 | Museo Nacional Reina Sofía at last lives up to its name |
| 29 | Unacknowledged , it 's been that way for several years , as we have regularly tried to point out here as others wrongly gave the crown to Digital Equipment Corp , but both the Wall Street Journal and Datamation magazine have at last come round to agreeing that Fujitsu Ltd is the world 's second-largest computer company — with NEC Corp and Hewlett-Packard Co both now challenging DEC for the third place . |
| 30 | Her neighbour , after helping himself well to leg of mutton as the vast dish had at last come round to him , said ( confirming her ) , ‘ Our guest of honour is a real femme du monde . ’ |