Example sentences of "had just arrived " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Statue of Liberty had just arrived from Paris and was being assembled so it was not in New York harbour when they arrived . |
| 2 | I spoke to as many reinforcements as I possibly could , especially those who had just arrived from Achnacarry . |
| 3 | Near panic had set in when Tass news agency quoted a woman who had just arrived in Novgorod , near St Petersburg , as saying that she had fled Kyrgyzstan a few days before the ‘ evictions ’ were to begin . |
| 4 | James Dean had just arrived there for his first major role , having been brought from New York by the famed director Elia Kazan to star in East of Eden . |
| 5 | He and Fonda retired to their trailer , smoked some marijuana and then came out and told the crowd of local youths that they should imagine that the two of them had just arrived in town , and , on the way , they had picked up a local girl of fifteen , and raped and left her in the bushes . |
| 6 | She had just arrived and was looking for a cheap hotel . |
| 7 | And in a fortnight or three weeks time they too would be found with the inquisitive crowd on the inside of the gate staring at the prisoners who had just arrived . |
| 8 | He 'd noticed that the geese had just arrived in the back fields . |
| 9 | One had just arrived at ground floor level ; Tom followed two girl clerks into it and pressed the button for the fifteenth floor . |
| 10 | To the crowd who assembled , the Provo Sergeant announced that anyone giving credit to members of the regiment which had just arrived did so at their own risk . |
| 11 | But he was not discontented now : we had been in Fe– two days and he was airing his local knowledge to impress Flora , who had just arrived . |
| 12 | Johnson 's , I was soon to learn , was typical of other South Seas stores — more like a warehouse than a shop , with new lines that had just arrived by boat piled up against the shelves of the barn-like building . |
| 13 | He turned to look at Denholm who had just arrived on the bridge . |
| 14 | When the greetings and exclamations were over , they told me that they had been staying on Mull for a few days , and had just arrived on Moila , and were putting up at the post office with Mrs McDougall . |
| 15 | For the first time I met Jeremy 's father , who had just arrived from America , and together we went in to see the body . |
| 16 | The latest gramophone discs had just arrived in Colombo , and one could join Harry Champion in the chorus of his You Ought to See the Missus in a Harem Skirt . |
| 17 | And indeed , four people had just arrived to join them at the table . |
| 18 | Our coffee had just arrived . |
| 19 | A little further away was a young woman who had just arrived on her horse , with her maid on foot . |
| 20 | She could also see that Pete McCarthy and his waitress had just arrived . |
| 21 | Dieter Erdle had just arrived with Rose Kettle clinging to his arm . |
| 22 | Franks had just arrived with his secretary and was still in the shop . |
| 23 | Next morning while we were loading , Omar brought a young but responsible-looking man over to me who had just arrived from Asba Tafari . |
| 24 | The suspicions of the two shore watchers were soon aroused by the activities of the Ann Lynn , one of the local boats which had just arrived to land a party of sea anglers . |
| 25 | Alice fulfilled the orders , then sat down as far as she could from Alfred who had just arrived . |
| 26 | A train from Geneva had just arrived , and the passengers were leaving the station . |
| 27 | He turned the picture so that Faye could see it , as well as Belinda and Bill , who had just arrived , briefcase in hand and shirt collar rather tired-looking after his long day . |
| 28 | Tree swallows had just arrived in Hobart on their annual migrations , and were ‘ particularly numerous in the streets ’ ; wood swallows dived among the paddocks and pasturelands on nearby estates ; fire-tailed finches and flame-breasted robins were busy nest-building in gardens and orchards — ‘ I have even taken its nest ’ , remarked Gould about the latter , ‘ from a shelving bank in the streets of Hobart' — while dusky robins perched on garden railings . |
| 29 | Leith had a brief discussion with Robert Drewer on a few matters , collected up several files while she was at it , then went to her own office , where her assistant had just arrived . |
| 30 | He looked briefly down at his plate , which had just arrived bearing succulent-looking food and wafting a tempting aroma , then glanced up at her again . |