Example sentences of "had arrive [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | 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 . |
| 33 | Berndt said , as though it were his incisive wit alone which had arrived at the nub , ‘ The question is , what do we do with her in the meantime ? |
| 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 | I had arrived at the bus stop two hours early . |
| 36 | Harvey , it turned out , had arrived at the front the previous Friday . |
| 37 | It was a boiling hot morning , he had three other appointments before lunch , and his head ached dully from the excess of Jack Daniels he had drunk the night before with the child 's father , who had been beside himself with rage when he had arrived at the Presbytery . |
| 38 | It is not said , however , that at around the same time in Georgian England a woman , Angelica Kauffman , had arrived on the London art scene and was proving remarkably successful as a portrait painter . |
| 39 | Piper frowned , trying to remember exactly how the Doctor and his friends had arrived on the base . |
| 40 | By the time the girl who had rung in response to his advertisement had arrived on the scene , the horse was already bridled and saddled . |
| 41 | A look at Victoria circa 1951 , before electrification had arrived on the scene . |
| 42 | A Frenchman , who had arrived on the scene just too late to save the English girl 's bag , pointed to an advert in a colour supplement for a company called grupo 4 : SEGURIDAD INTEGRAL … en MANOS PERUANOS ( Complete security in Peruvian hands . ) |
| 43 | Meanwhile , unless his senses were awry from fear and pain , a newcomer had arrived on the scene . |
| 44 | The imperfections. of these methods of plasma diagnostics — the term used to describe the art of measuring what is going on in a plasma — gave rise to persistent difficulties and ambiguities until the late 1960s , when lasers had arrived on the scene . |
| 45 | He could not forget that Blackbeard had arrived on the scene sweating and then become coldly murderous in his need to get the wallet back . |
| 46 | Maybelle Foy , the daughter of one of her papa 's rivals , had , she knew , almost caught him before she , Sally-Anne , had arrived on the scene . |
| 47 | Miss Logan began to reflect upon the changes in her employer since they had arrived on the mountain . |
| 48 | Mitchum had arrived on the set for an early call and found they were nowhere near ready for him . |
| 49 | The representatives of shire and suburb had arrived on the Monday evening , and had drunk and dined exceedingly well . |
| 50 | 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 . |
| 51 | Next day , after she had arrived for the matinée , the manager sent for her . |
| 52 | Harrison had arrived for the Sports on the previous evening , taken a couple of glasses of beer in the Fish — complimented the landlord on his brew — and then gone to sleep out the night in a barn . |
| 53 | The Noonday Gazette had arrived with the water cart that morning , children were still working the spigot to fill the tall earthenware jars from the big barrel mounted in the muletrap , while the carter stood by to keep count of the charge . |
| 54 | The voice that could reach with ease to the upper gallery of the Shield Theatre sounded in the Holborn drawing-room , calling attention to the silent young man who had arrived with the Professor but so far had not said a word . |
| 55 | And Alvar Fañez at this time issued out from ambush , and fell upon them , on the side which was nearest the sea ; and the Moors thought that a great power had arrived to the Cid 's succour , and they were dismayed , and began to fly . |
| 56 | Since the first file had arrived off the train from Pot'ma , Yuri Rudakov had dreamed of little else than his triumph of interrogation over Mikhail Holovich . |
| 57 | A little parcel had arrived through the post that morning from the old people 's home at Tower Hamlets . |
| 58 | We had arrived outside the flats . |
| 59 | By the 1890s neo-Romanesque had arrived from the United States , and its heavy style with round arches appeared at Brantford ( 1895 ) , Kitchener ( 1897 ) , Galt and Brampton . |
| 60 | The turbine had arrived from the works , and also the alternator , which by now I had learned was merely another name for a generator , though of a fancier kind as it made AC whereas a generator made only DC . |