Sentence examples similar to we've barely arrived from inspiring English sources

We had barely arrived at the stadium when the police approached.

(Though even here the placement of the door seems awkward; actors entering the set seem to be in the middle of the apartment before they've barely arrived).

He had barely arrived in the Pacific when he heard that some of his closest friends had been killed.

She had barely arrived when he told her he was engaged in a business venture with partners in Nigeria.

"Get out of my house," Janet orders him though she herself has barely arrived.

The United Nations troops that are set to replace the American military as a security force have barely arrived.

Mr. de Blasio said he had barely arrived home in Park Slope after marching in the parade when he got a call informing him of the episode.

Related Times Topics: Turkey Excerpt: Rebel Land (pdf) The Sunday Book Review on Rebel Land (March 7, 2010) His essay had barely arrived on newsstands, though, before complaints began to pour in.

It was clear the Pakistanis had barely arrived in Mazar-i-Sharif and knew little of what was going on as the Taliban forces suddenly collapsed and withdrew that night.

He's part earnest conservationist in the David Attenborough mould, part hapless innocent in the vein of Henry Fonda in The Lady Eve, and Newt has barely arrived in America before he finds himself in trouble with the Magical Congress (Macusa).

Now he offers a straight genre number, a western starring Mads Mikkelsen as a Danish immigrant whose wife and son have barely arrived to join him before he has cause to embark on a revenge mission.