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Example sentences for "first arrived"

  • When it first arrived, it occasionally made a gruff subdued howling noise early in the morning.

  • Yes, he had expected much more when he first arrived.

  • The mental attitude he had from his letters that he wrote me when he first arrived in Russia were quite disturbing to me.

  • That is when we first arrived in New York.

  • When we first arrived we found a deep sense of gloom prevailing amongst our advanced party.

  • In March, when we first arrived, we moved into a Battery position in the pine woods behind the rear slope of the southern ridge.

  • When we first arrived in March the snow was in full thaw, and every road a sunlit, rushing torrent.

  • When we first arrived in Chungking, the wife of a formerly very wealthy merchant came at once to see me, begging that some place might be found in my husband's business for her husband, who had unfortunately become impoverished.

  • It was in 1888 we first arrived in Peking, and we felt at once convinced that, whatever wonders it might have to offer, nothing--no!

  • We first arrived in the small township of Xacatcinco, where the inhabitants presented us with a golden chain for the neck, some packages of cotton stuffs, and two Indian females.

  • It appeared that when Abou Saood had first arrived at Fatiko from Gondokoro, the vakeels of his different stations were all prepared for the journey to deliver the ivory.

  • I should have arrested and transported him to Khartoum when he first arrived at Gondokoro with the cattle stolen from the Shir; which caused the subsequent massacre of the five soldiers of the government.

  • The curtain began to rise, and disclosed certain facts of which I ought to have been informed many months ago, when I first arrived at Khartoum.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    either case; first and; first appears; first course; first cousins; first dynasty; first hearing; first instance; first lecture; first lesson; first love; first mate; first meeting; first officer; first performance; first period; first position; first read; first reception; first saw; first sergeant; first term; first vice; first words; high protective; older people