Example sentences of "time since [pers pn] [verb] arrive " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 He left the room and Newman swung round to face Monica who had remained like a piece of the furniture during the whole time since he 'd arrived .
4 He noticed too that for the first time since he had arrived at the Cages there was a total silence , as if all the eagles , and all the imprisoned creatures thereabout had instinctively understood that this old eagle 's troubled painful words marked an end to a terrible life ; and perhaps in some strange way the beginning of something none dared hope might come to pass .
5 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 .
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