Example sentences of "had arrived at the " in BNC.
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| 31 | They had arrived at the grave . |
| 32 | Now that he had arrived at the wildest part of Britain , he wished to use his adventure in the same spirit as that in which Montaigne wrote his famous Essais — as trials of himself , as investigations of the ideas that arose in the non-stop chatter of his mind . |
| 33 | He had arrived at the precise moment when another twist in the plot of a murder weekend was unravelling itself . |
| 34 | He had arrived at the Laboratory over an hour late , at ten o'clock , looking terribly tired because he had been up that night at the scene of crime , and had come over to the reception desk to collect his personal post . |
| 35 | Marrakesh has long been a winter watering hole for the rich , the chic and the famous and the Shah had arrived at the height of the tourist season . |
| 36 | Fowler had arrived at the small-holding around lunchtime . |
| 37 | It was eight days almost to the minute since the undertaker had arrived at the house on stilts and rung the doorbell for the last time . |
| 38 | She was late because Crystal Daly telephoned , indignant that Brian Berg had arrived at the gallery and accused her of being MacQuillan 's mistress . |
| 39 | They had arrived at the wharf , which was exceedingly ill-lit . |
| 40 | Mrs Abigail , similarly affected , believed that what she 'd been dreading all day had now come about : the parents of some child had arrived at the bungalow . |
| 41 | Once he had arrived at the Southern Capital , he had proclaimed his loyalty to the old gods loudly and publicly , disowning the Aten and throwing himself on the mercy of the priests of Amun , who even then were growing bold as the revolutionary pharaoh lost his grip both on reality and his empire . |
| 42 | Here they were , objects of suspicion to be interrogated by the police , and not even noticed by the one or two newspaper men who had arrived at the hotel . |
| 43 | 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 . |
| 44 | Well , the revels master returned , saying that some masked noble figures had arrived at the water stairs . |
| 45 | At the end of the first week Allaf was particularly critical of the Israeli delegation 's tactics , saying that the Israeli delegation had arrived at the talks with a " premeditated determination not to allow any progress " . |
| 46 | Only two of the party that had arrived at The Randolph , some fifty hours earlier , were no longer in their original seats — the seats immediately behind Mrs Roscoe . |
| 47 | The death sentences were commuted at the end of 1849 , but only when the prisoners had arrived at the place of execution and been led to believe , as Dostoevsky put it , that they " had no more than a minute left to live " . |
| 48 | 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 . |
| 49 | By this time two fire engines and a police van had arrived at the front entrance . |
| 50 | Christopher Taylor blinked back tears as he described how he had arrived at the hospital to find his son , seven-week-old Liam , had suffered a mysterious collapse . |
| 51 | Harvey , it turned out , had arrived at the front the previous Friday . |