Example sentences of "at last [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although as she changed from bus to bus she was free at last of the accusing voices , she had time for a number of second thoughts , wishing in particular that she had put on other clothes , and had had her hair cut . |
| 2 | Or was it simply a hope at last of the services of those enchanting houris in Paradise ? |
| 3 | His eyes , in their now puffy setting , came back to her , and there was a trace at last of the old look that had warmed her all those years ago . |
| 4 | The former they ran to earth at last at the smithy , a tiny Black Hole of Calcutta where Matthew Grimble , the blacksmith , lived with his portly wife and ten portly children . |
| 5 | And so we arrive at last at the fully focused sentence . |
| 6 | With the conference at last on the calendar , the various countries began preparatory activities to enhance their bargaining positions . |
| 7 | Change is at last on the horizon in South Africa , but its outcome and the effects on its neighbours are not yet clear . |
| 8 | Here we are at last on the eve of the mighty event . |
| 9 | THE York ‘ LIFE ’ group is at last on the point of acquiring premises in Stonegate in which they hope to open York 's very first Pregnancy Care Centre early in 1993 . |
| 10 | It was with a sickening sense of shock that his eyes fell at last on the heaps of bodies lying in the shadows of the dock buildings and beneath the pepper trees . |
| 11 | He was just over three hours late to meet his guide , locating him at last on the edge of a ruck of Army drivers , forlorn in Air Force blue . |
| 12 | Seven minutes later Simpson 's free kick hit the post , it went over the Charlton wall , hit the post with Bolder beaten , and again the chance had gone , but at last on the half an hour United took the lead ; yet another corner , again from the right side . |
| 13 | It had prepared her for the coming meeting when she would be alone at last with the youth who was King of England ; the youth she loved … |
| 14 | Seemann in Leipzig still has a rather small list of new issues , but fills an important gap at last with the completely revised catalogue of the displayed works in the Gemäldegalerie Dresden alter Meister to celebrate the re-opening of the Zwinger in December after extensive restoration . |
| 15 | Each ship is built for the coronation of the ruler and on his or her death bears them off to the Isle of the Dead to rest at last with the ancient rulers of Ulthuan . |
| 16 | In short , he had identified himself at last with the spirit of the times . |
| 17 | Cardiff screened his eyes from the rain as he drew level at last with the other two men . |
| 18 | Here she was at last with the man she loved . |
| 19 | He must have gone to sleep at last for the next thing he heard was his alarm clock . |
| 20 | A new director was appointed for the Epsom Theatre and we had agreement on the designs at last for the new Canterbury Theatre . |
| 21 | As we progress up the scale of profit-taking , we find others who sell at small craft fairs and those who find an outlet through local shops , until we come at last to the favoured few who sell at the prestigious crafts fairs which Hugh prefers . |
| 22 | A conducted tour of the house by the whole family , brought him at last to the top floor where his bedroom was proudly displayed , which , though huge and filled with awesome furniture of hideous elaboration , impressed him less than the meticulous care with which his soldier servant — batman was apparently a naughty word in the Guards — had unpacked his belongings and laid all essentials neatly in the right places . |
| 23 | Indeed , the team was so anxious to give recognition at last to the importance of the content of any particular drama , that it seems almost to be reinforcing the dualistic assumption that drama is about attitudes or ideas in the children 's heads to be explored and then expressed through the medium . |
| 24 | They turned through the narrow Kendal Dyke into a lovely wilderness of reeds and water , sailed from one to another of the posts that mark the channel , came to a signpost standing not on land but out in the middle of the Sounds , read ‘ to Horsey ’ on one side of it , reached away through Meadow Dyke , so narrow that they could easily have jumped ashore , and came at last to the open Mere . |
| 25 | After various other criteria , we come at last to the manner in which this knowledge and understanding must be expressed . |
| 26 | It is the story of the dust-heaps left by the miserly contractor Harmon ( see DUST ) , which pass first to Boffin , ‘ the golden dustman ’ , and at last to the heir , Harmon 's son ( the young man who feigns death , and ‘ our mutual friend ’ of the title ) , whose identity is one of the plot 's mysteries . |
| 27 | He undid the buttons , aware of the smooth warm nearness of her flesh ; the gown fell , with a hushing sound , at last to the floor . |
| 28 | In Toulouse also , the steadily falling value of comital coins in the second half of the century made them relevant at last to the needs of the merchant classes . |
| 29 | The need for centralization of the royal court and parliament led at last to the choice and subsequent development of Edinburgh as Scotland 's capital city . |
| 30 | She was defeated at Langside , south of Glasgow , and fled to Dumfries and at last to the banks of the Solway . |