Example sentences of "they [verb] at last " in BNC.
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| 1 | A. R. They came at last . |
| 2 | Another time , Swan flew through the night for what seemed like hours and hours until they came at last to a gigantic opening in the earth 's surface , a sort of huge gaping hole in the ground , and Swan glided slowly round and round above this massive crater and then right down into it . |
| 3 | They came at last , in the warm Sunday stillness , to the broad avenues of central Berlin . |
| 4 | They came at last to the great , bulky empty house , staring across to parklands through the inspired grouping of its trees . |
| 5 | By then every muscle ached , and it was with deep gratitude that they turned at last to drag their feet towards the house . |
| 6 | They turned at last from this one point of certainty in their world and walked along the fringe of the forest , picking their way between the trees but keeping the Waste in view . |
| 7 | Tullibardine , far more cautious , was reluctant even to cross to the mainland and when they did at last set sail they suffered the usual Jacobite bad luck . |
| 8 | They appeared at last and he got them safely off in one canoe . |
| 9 | It pandered to their inflated notion of their own importance ; and the restiveness of the working class during this early phase of Russian industrialization gave them renewed hope that they had at last found a willing instrument for their revolutionary dreams . |
| 10 | They had at last somehow got together in bed in a house momentarily empty of other people , neither of them expected ( momentarily ) elsewhere . |
| 11 | He also spoke of lying awake and listening for the flying bombs , and noting the difference in volume between one explosion and another , and then , on hearing one more definite in sound , concluding that , as in the old artillery box-barrage , they had at last ‘ got the range ’ . |
| 12 | They left at last . |
| 13 | Although a good deal of excavation has taken place at Alcester , especially in the south-western suburb around Birch Abbey , very little has received full publication.6 Excavations in the fortified area of the town have always been difficult owing to the presence of modern buildings , but with new developments taking place , they have at last become feasible ; even now , though , the line of the defences is still imperfectly known . |