Example sentences of "landed at [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Bob Swatman , 73 , branch chairman , of Low Lane , Middlesbrough , had to wait 17 hours on the beach before he was eventually evacuated with 65 others by a fishing boat which landed at Margate Pier .
2 ‘ Eighteen months ago , Mistress Deveril , though she used another name , left Gascony and landed at Dover .
3 The next day we landed at Mackay and re-fuelled for our last leg .
4 During the day 7 Staffel of Jagdgeschwader 26 ‘ Schlageter ’ landed at Gela , Sicily , on completion of the long flight from Germany .
5 They were used as infantry at Gallipoli , where they landed at Suvla Bay on 20/21 August 1915 , serving with distinction where they took Chocolate Hill and Scimitar Hill with the bayonet ; by 1 November 1915 , they had been reduced to sixty .
6 We landed at Andahaylas 10,000 feet above sea level and from there we took the mountain track in a Land Rover to Fr.
7 He was clearly far more remote from the succession than William III , or at least his wife , had been but he was a Protestant and he duly landed at Greenwich on 18 September 1714 , with two mistresses in tow , both very plain .
8 En route the flight progressed normally and they landed at Biggin Hill at 1111 hrs where the passenger disembarked .
9 We landed at Rennes in bright sunshine an hour later .
10 What has happened to this Henry , since he landed at Ravenspur and struck out so baldly for a crown ? ’
11 Their destination was kept secret , and many assumed that the expedition would sail for Aquitaine ; but on 12 July Edward landed at Saint-Vaast-la-Hogue in the Cotentin .
12 Wordsworth recognized this mood of elation when he landed at Calais with Robert Jones on 13 July 1790 :
13 ‘ Talking about fucking casualties , there 's not very many left of No. 4 since we landed at La Breche on Tuesday ! ’
14 ‘ Not many of the original lot that landed at La Breche five days ago , ’ I replied , ‘ There have been a lot of casualties since the landing , many of them caused by mortar fire over the past few days .
15 It will be all right , ’ he replied to all objections , and on 25 July 1745 , he landed at Borrodale , on the Scottish mainland , about 27 miles [ 43 km ] west of Fort William .
16 No I do n't think we landed at Cowes I think we landed over here further .
17 As we landed at Cardiff , those in the seats closest to his party heard the Labour leader holding himself in check : ‘ Prime Ministerial .
18 Thus , when Hitler landed at Danzig 's Saspe airfield on a whistle-stop tour of the east for his 1932 election campaign , the entire Danzig SA , along with a uniformed company of the local police force , turned out as a guard of honour .
19 William the Conqueror occupied it when he landed at Pevensey in 1066 before the Battle of Hastings .
20 The Bewicks landed at Slimbridge a few days ago after their two thousand mile flight from Siberia .
21 The plan left Amman , Jordan 's capital , just after midnight and landed at Gatwick shortly before eight this morning ; on board 57 Britons , 29 Americans , 4 Australians and 2 Canadians .
22 Dickinson landed at Achiet and went to the adjutant 's office to report his kill and his availability .
23 When we landed at Owi he had seventy gallons left — enough for a full hour 's flight throttled down .
24 It was seven o'clock Romanian time when they landed at Otopeni Airport .
25 The possibility of confusion is very great ; for just as Eleanor of Castile landed at Acre in 1270 , accompanying Edward on the seventh crusade , so Eleanor of Aquitaine had landed there 120 years before , accompanying her husband ( that is , her first , Louis VII of France ) on his crusade — which is presumably what Pound means by ‘ Acre , again ’ .
26 Enraged , Richard sailed on and landed at Acre , joining the besieging army on 8th June .
27 When the plane landed at Frankfurt he left the airport first , bypassing the wait at the carousel which held up his colleagues .
28 We landed at East Watergate and made our way up into Knight Rider Street .
29 By name — Captain Don Bennett , the Operational Director and founder of the Atlantic Ferry who persuaded first Lord Beaverbrook ( and he in turn Churchill ) and finally a reluctant Air Council that delivery of aircraft by air from the USA was feasible ; and on 10 November 1940 Don Bennett delivered seven Lockheed Hudsons ; six landed at Aldergrove in Northern Ireland , and another nearby .
30 We ate on the boat and landed at Ramsgate at 6.30pm British time .
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