Example sentences of "they had arrived [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Miss Logan began to reflect upon the changes in her employer since they had arrived on the mountain . |
| 2 | To the outside world they had arrived on the international scene as self-made , jet-setting millionaires . |
| 3 | They had arrived at a first floor landing . |
| 4 | They had arrived at their given destination , had ridden out the Chief Wren 's wrath , and tea — and toast , too , if their noses were to be believed — were within blessed reach . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | She wanted to say it was only a joke , about boiling oil , but they had arrived at a building with several steps leading up and told to get into single file so that their names could be checked at the door . |
| 7 | They had arrived at the grave . |
| 8 | They had arrived at the wharf , which was exceedingly ill-lit . |
| 9 | They had arrived at a point opposite one corner of the house , but once they left the trees there was no more cover until they reached the broad belt of shrubbery which ran parallel to the side of the house . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | They had arrived during his absence and he had scanned them quickly . |
| 13 | I met most of my party there because I had flown from Stavanger and they had arrived via Oslo , but we all boarded the plane bound for Longyearbyen with great anticipation . |
| 14 | ‘ What are we doing here ? ’ she asked , as if , by some miracle , they had arrived in Lapland . |
| 15 | These older cells undergo a second migration and give rise to a variety of cell types quite alien to the site at which they had arrived in their first migration , suggesting that there is a mixed population of cells at each site at the end of migration and the conditions at each site favour the growth and differentiation of specific members of the mixed population ; the others fail to flourish and presumably die . |
| 16 | Goodman tried to find out by demanding to know how many refugee children had been baptised since they had arrived in this country . |
| 17 | They went straight in to land at Luqa , but as they approached saw bombs bursting on the runway — they had arrived in the middle of a raid ! |
| 18 | Soon after they had arrived in New York Anna had torn a dress and Mrs Carson had handed it to Ruth to repair . |
| 19 | But , once they had arrived in large numbers , they tried to make a reporter 's life as easy as possible , providing basic material about the country and the war , easy access to military experts and well-protected trips to watch the fighting . |
| 20 | They had arrived in Siena when the recently washed streets smelled fresh and metallic . |
| 21 | By 4/5 May they had arrived in the Drau valley , near Lienz ( nearly 100 miles west of Klagenfurt ) . |
| 22 | They went to Laos , Cambodia , but by the time they had arrived in Katmandu Sharp had decided to head on to London . |
| 23 | Jack of Longleigh , Adam of Rochester , and Ydrys obediently fell silent , thinking that perhaps they had arrived in time to witness the last ebbing breaths of their one-time Lucifer . |
| 24 | They had arrived in the bedroom without knowing how they had got there . |
| 25 | By mid-day they had arrived by their thousands . |
| 26 | They had arrived before Christmas , and it was now May . |