At the last second I dropped my sights from the bare chest and bright red circle to the chest of his pony.

At last, when I put it to him directly, the clerk was forced to admit that the delay in my case was unusual.

At last he reached for the knife.

At last her lawyer, Arthur D. Cloud, gave up the case because she turned down three successive settlements he arranged.

At last they concluded that the heavy, full feeling in their stomachs was due to lack of exercise.

At last they saw Calcutta, largest city of Bengal and the Caravan's destination.

At last he consented to meet her, and following that brief interview Claire wrote him a yet more remarkable proposal:

At last, even the controlled Torrio was unable to hold still, and he tentatively suggested that O'Banion should take a percentage in the Stickney brothels in return for one from his Cicero beer concession.

At last count, sixteen former Rhodes Scholars ( see box on page 13 ) had been appointed to the Administration, second in number only to its Harvard graduates.

At last he found it in the paper of April 2.

At last, sitting there, in the familiar surroundings, the truth began to sink in.

At last it was time to depart.

At last he said, `` Well, thank you for calling, Mr. Benson.

At the last session of the General Assembly, the town was authorized to adopt such an ordinance as a means of making enforcement of minor offenses more effective.

At last the White House is going to get some much-copied furniture by that master American craftsman, Duncan Phyfe, whose designs were snubbed in his lifetime when the U. S. Presidents of the 19th Century sent abroad for their furnishings.

At a closed-door session on Capitol Hill last week, Secretary of State Christian Herter made his final report to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on U.S. affairs abroad.

At a reception for new members of Congress, Oregon Democrat Maurine Neuberger, taking the Senate seat held by her husband Richard until his death last March, got a brotherly buss from Democratic Elder Statesman Adlai Stevenson, U.S. Ambassador-designate to the U.N..

At the opening of the Dusseldorf show, Thompson himself scarcely glanced at the treasures that he was seeing together for the last time.

At last, I thought, she's recovering her spirits.

At the same time that I thought I understood her at long last and pitied her, underneath this knowing had there burned unquenched by my pity a fire of hate, an enduring envy that burst out in that ghastly outcry??

At last there was a void no one could fill.

At last Gabriel spoke.

At last he noticed a return of the inwardness of pain.

At first, people indulge in fantasies, imagining the missing person's return, but then they start to feel like prisoners, drifting through life with nothing left but the past, since they do not know how long into the future their ordeal may last.

At the close of the second last day's play, Australia were 113 – 2, needing only 64 more runs.

At 17 metres long, the Severn class lifeboat s are the largest class of UK Lifeboat ( rescue ) | lifeboat

At the time, the age of consent for sexual acts between men in the UK was 21 ( compared with 16 for heterosexual acts ).

At the start of the First World War, the Currency and Bank Notes Act 1914 was passed which granted temporary powers to HM Treasury for issuing banknotes to the value of £ 1 and 10 /- ( ten shillings ) in the UK.

At the start of 2008, there were 59 building societies in the UK, with total assets exceeding £ 360 billion.

At the same time the non-album single " John, I ’ m Only Dancing ", and " All the Young Dudes ", a song he wrote and produced for Mott the Hoople, became UK hits.

At the closure of the UK Film Council on 31 March 2011, The Guardian reported that " The UKFC's entire annual budget was a reported £ 3m, while the cost of closing it down and restructuring is estimated to have been almost four times that amount.

At the peak of Bruce Springsteen's megastardom following the Born in the U. S. A. album and Born in the U. S. A. Tour in the mid-1980s, there were no less than five Springsteen fanzines circulating at the same time in the UK alone, and many others elsewhere.

At the conclusion of the Oz obscenity trials in the UK, the defendants had their heads shaved by the police, causing public outcry.

At the insistence of their superiors in the UK, EMI Australia signed The Saints.

At the time, there was no reason to include the United Kingdom ’ s name on the stamp ; the UK remains the only country not to identify itself by name on postal stamps, as it simply uses the current monarch ’ s head as implicit identification.

At the time the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary was published, " tablespoon " ( which by then was no longer hyphenated ) still had two definitions in the UK: the original definition ( eating spoon ) and the new definition ( serving spoon ).

At its peak, the single was selling 93, 000 copies a day in the UK alone.

At 286. 3 miles ( 461 km ) it is by far the longest canal in the UK.

At first the output was insignificant, but gradually the magnitude of the operations was enlarged until the competition became effective, and steel traders generally became aware that the firm of Henry Bessemer & Co. was underselling them to the extent of UK £ 10 -£ 15 a ton.

* Beyond The Fringe Live At The Cambridge Arts Theatre, UK, EMI audio CD, 2011

At the date of his death, Pertwee was regularly being seen at the tail end of an enigmatic UK TV commercial for mobile phone operator Vodafone: dressed somewhat in his flamboyant ' Doctor ' manner, his character walked wordlessly across an alleyway in sight of a Liverpool landmark, and entered a garage evidently containing some kind of ' time machine '.

At the start of World War I, private industry in the UK was asked to produce 16, 000 tons of cordite, and all the companies started to expand.

At one time there were over 15, 000 betting shops in the UK.

At present there are fifteen accredited programmes in the UK.

At the DSEi conference in September 2007 it was announced the UK MoD was funding a study by MBDA to investigate a replacement for Rapier which is scheduled to leave service about 2020.

At that time, the Borders bookshop chain in the UK started a closing down sale in all of its 45 stores.

At the end of the year Lindsay-Hogg again collaborated with the Stones on their most ambitious project to date, the feature-length performance film The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus, which also featured John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Eric Clapton and rising UK band Jethro Tull, but unfortunately the film was not released until 1996 because the group at the time felt that their own performances had been below par.

At around this time, he also started doing voice links for UK porn TV station, The Adult Channel ; and presented a programme called Caesar's Rude Arena for Television X.

At Earsham the Otter Trust has one of its three UK centres, which opened in 1978.

At the other end of the journalism spectrum, there are entire publications that deal primarily in gossip, rumor, and innuendo about celebrities, such as the ' red-top ' tabloids in the UK and celebrity ' tell-all ' magazines.