Example sentences of "[pers pn] had arrived at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had arrived at work late on Monday morning and in none too good a temper . |
| 2 | I had arrived at Ullapool by bus in mid-afternoon , determined to satisfy an ambition to make a first visit to Lochinver . |
| 3 | A light breeze made play with her skirts and , for the first time since she had arrived at Yelton , she wished she could let down her hair and feel the wind run its fingers through it . |
| 4 | He knew nothing of the girl Louise Taylor , other than that she had arrived at Buckingham Palace three months earlier and had spent time coaching the prince and the duchess in Russian . |
| 5 | I had rummaged this same vessel with my crew after she had arrived at Lowestoft at midnight some weeks previously , with a suspiciously empty fish hold and a dripping wet rubber dinghy on deck . |
| 6 | ‘ This is nice , Lily , ’ she said ; she had arrived at Lily Bates 's machine , and the words popped out before she could stop them . |
| 7 | Staring out of the window she was astounded to realize she had arrived at Heathrow . |
| 8 | We had arrived at Orange a week previously , and after disembarking from the coach had been ordered into the barrack rooms by our Corporals , who were waiting outside on the parade ground . |
| 9 | Obsessed as they were with hygiene and cleanliness , the Corporals had been worried ever since we had arrived at Orange that some of us were not adept at emptying our bowels neatly . |
| 10 | Two days ago they had arrived at Palma airport , Steve elated at the prospect of a couple of weeks ' work in his own special paradise place on earth and Ruth stuffed with foreboding . |
| 11 | As they reached St Martin-in-the-Fields church the cheering was so loud he thought that they had arrived at St Paul 's and prepared to get out of the carriage . |
| 12 | However , the evidence of the fireman who was on the footplate of the engine that was hauling the express disproved the allegations of the railway company , for he had seen them together on the train after it had arrived at Birmingham New Street Station around 2.30 when the children had waved at him . |
| 13 | He had paid three pence at the booking office for his ticket and , after waiting ten minutes or so on the cold and draughty platform for the next London-bound train , he had arrived at Christchurch some ten minutes later to run through torrential rain toward the group of cottages which flanked the open park in the town centre . |
| 14 | He had arrived at Camp 3 , Zone 1 ( Strict Regime ) . |
| 15 | She laughed so infectiously that Athelstan joined in and , for the first time since he had arrived at St Erconwald 's , the nave of his church rang with laughter . |