Sentence examples for had failed to arrive from inspiring English sources

"Another historic storm had failed to arrive," he says, then adds: Except it had arrived, just not for us.

Several thousand were stationed just down the road in Irbil, inside Kurdish-northern Iraq, but they had failed to arrive.

He had finally scored his first goal in these World Cup finals but it had failed to arrive until 10 minutes from time and, ultimately, counted for nothing.

But a year later, in the spring of 2007, stranded homeowners were in an uproar as the promised money had failed to arrive.

Ifeajuna drove on to Enugu, where it became apparent that the coup had failed, mainly because one of the key officers in Ifeajuna's Lagos operation had "turned traitor" and had failed to arrive as planned with armoured cars.

He said he had been told that Ms. Brewer had snapped because money she had expected from a social services agency — money she needed for the children — had failed to arrive.

She and Jeremy Corbyn have failed to arrive at a compromise.

Around half the missions sent there since the first Soviet attempts in 1960 have failed to arrive.

Tax revolts have been brewing in several far-flung regions, as money due from the central government has failed to arrive.

More than a half-dozen research papers, genetic testing and even a working group of experts have failed to arrive at a clear answer.

I don't know about the First Family's guest-list (my own invitation having failed to arrive), but I doubt its members will be too appalled by the lack of food.