Example sentences of "had [adv] arrived at the " in BNC.

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1 She looked up , startled to find that they had already arrived at the top floor , and were now walking down the corridor towards her apartment .
2 During the summer when there was not even a blade of green grass in the paddock , her feed of oats and other goodies became inordinately important to her , to the extent that one day when her dinner had not arrived at the usual time she began to paw at the fence in anxiety .
3 They had nearly arrived at the first of the longhouses scattered over the hillside , belonging to the families who stayed in Orphir all the year round and cared for the land and the hall on behalf of the Earl .
4 The post-war bulge , which had exacerbated discontent with the procedure for allocation to secondary schools in the late fifties , had now arrived at the gates of higher education .
5 The Collector had independently arrived at the same conclusion by watching the slope above the melon beds where the number of spectators was beginning to increase rapidly .
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