Example sentences of "had arrive at [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I calculated that if Charlie 's train had arrived at King 's Cross on time that morning , he should have already reached Chelsea by now , even if he had had to cover the entire journey on foot .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 He had arrived at Camp 3 , Zone 1 ( Strict Regime ) .
6 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 .
7 Nora had not seen her like that since the day she and Sam had arrived at Coutances .
8 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 .
9 I had arrived at Ullapool by bus in mid-afternoon , determined to satisfy an ambition to make a first visit to Lochinver .
10 In the distance Garry saw that the fairground had arrived at Wormwood Scrubs Park .
11 The princess had arrived at Althorp , the Spencer family seat earlier in the day .
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 I had arrived at work late on Monday morning and in none too good a temper .
14 Hall had arrived at Dalston police station about twenty minutes ago and announced that he was acting for Scott .
15 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 .
16 In the mid sixth century , St Ciaran with seven followers had arrived at Clonmacnoise by water and built a wattle church and beehive huts , the foundation of the holy city .
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 ‘ This is nice , Lily , ’ she said ; she had arrived at Lily Bates 's machine , and the words popped out before she could stop them .
20 The Soviets , who had arrived at Heathrow the previous evening , were taken to Twickenham to train and practise , and it was there that their assistant manager Douglas Kavtalashvilli made the offer .
21 Staring out of the window she was astounded to realize she had arrived at Heathrow .
22 The problem , Richie explained , was that John and Angela had arrived at Heathrow Airport on a flight from Vienna , but as they had no passports they could not be admitted to the country .
23 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 .
24 The plot had arrived at Beirut .
25 Mandeville and Santerre had arrived at Templecombe wanting to make everyone dance to their tune .
26 His mother 's luggage had arrived at Kings Cross Station in London , and of course nobody collected it .
27 At 0800 the ‘ Tiger ’ convoy was still some 90 miles to the west of Malta , while the Mediterranean Fleet was 120 miles to the south , but by 1515 the two west-bound Malta-destined convoys , for which the Mediterranean Fleet had also provided cover , had arrived at Malta .
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