Example sentences of "[pers pn] had arrived [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had arrived at the bus stop two hours early . |
| 2 | ‘ This looks like a good job , ’ I though , unaware that I had arrived in the middle of Danny Baker 's leaving party . |
| 3 | The first time I came across him I had arrived in the Azores with a blown-out mainsail , flat batteries and was in need of cooking gas . |
| 4 | I had arrived in the morning on a China Air flight from Taipei to be met by an ‘ expediter ’ : someone who specializes in facilitating the arrivals and departures of important people . |
| 5 | He had absolutely , however , set his face against accepting help from Ruby Dobby although she had arrived on the second floor that morning full of promises if not promise . |
| 6 | Next day , after she had arrived for the matinée , the manager sent for her . |
| 7 | It was the first time the monarch had ever used a Thames passenger ferry — and one of the few occasions when she had arrived at an official engagement by public transport in the UK . |
| 8 | She did not know exactly how she had arrived at the last overwhelming conviction , only that she had . |
| 9 | A cold wind had picked up since she had arrived at the bar and she rubbed her arms quickly before picking her way through a sea of discarded newspaper to a metal drum and ducked down behind it , her eyes riveted on the door . |
| 10 | She thought she might even be able to get a good night 's sleep for the first time since she had arrived at the house . |
| 11 | She loved Hyde Park because it was the nearest thing she 'd seen to the country side since she had arrived in the capital . |
| 12 | Her only regret was that Dr Neil did not buy the Clarion Cry so that so far the only piece of her work which she had seen in print was the one which she had written before she had arrived in the East End . |
| 13 | For by now we had arrived at a big army hut by the side of the road . |
| 14 | In an interview with La Stampa yesterday , Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA chief Carlo De Benedetti condemned the pervasive system of political corruption , which he says obligated Olivetti to pay bribes or lose contracts , as ‘ having reduced Italy to a state worse than the Third World ’ : he says that at the last shareholders meeting earlier this year , he had to deny any bribery because he could n't preview information to the shareholders that was intended for the legal authorities ; he says that facing the judges , he felt liberated from a weight — ‘ then I felt a sense of justice — it pleased me to be there , ’ noting that when the company decided that the demands of the postal service for slush funds became too extreme and Olivetti stopped paying , ‘ we did n't sell another machine to the Post — we had arrived at the absurd point where , if we did n't pay , we did n't work and the moment we quit paying , we did n't work any more ’ . |
| 15 | Four days previously we had arrived on the glacier to set up the tent and learned a lot during that long , cold night , when temperatures plummeted to 25 deg C below . |
| 16 | We had arrived outside the flats . |
| 17 | Miss Logan began to reflect upon the changes in her employer since they had arrived on the mountain . |
| 18 | To the outside world they had arrived on the international scene as self-made , jet-setting millionaires . |
| 19 | They had arrived at a first floor landing . |
| 20 | She wanted to say it was only a joke , about boiling oil , but they had arrived at a building with several steps leading up and told to get into single file so that their names could be checked at the door . |
| 21 | They had arrived at a point opposite one corner of the house , but once they left the trees there was no more cover until they reached the broad belt of shrubbery which ran parallel to the side of the house . |
| 22 | They had arrived at the grave . |
| 23 | They had arrived at the wharf , which was exceedingly ill-lit . |
| 24 | She had known as soon as they had arrived at the lodge that her heart had made the right decision , even though it felt irresponsible and utterly childish to be spending a summer like this , at her age , and after all the work she had done to put the initials MD after her name . |
| 25 | They went straight in to land at Luqa , but as they approached saw bombs bursting on the runway — they had arrived in the middle of a raid ! |
| 26 | By 4/5 May they had arrived in the Drau valley , near Lienz ( nearly 100 miles west of Klagenfurt ) . |
| 27 | They had arrived in the bedroom without knowing how they had got there . |
| 28 | It had arrived in the south west Pacific area in December 1942 and served with the US 5th Air Force throughout the Pacific campaign . |
| 29 | It had arrived in the company of a flock of Russian white-fronted geese . |
| 30 | Months later it had arrived in the post and since then it had stood in its velvet frame , beside her mother 's bed . |