Example sentences of "arrive [adv] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The simple end-product arrives only at the fifth attempt . |
| 2 | KEVIN COOMBS Norman Lamont arrives yesterday for the first meeting of the Cabinet since the Budget |
| 3 | Deliveries of Cuban sugar , which arrives mainly in the first half of the year , load the Soviet sugar factories ' productive capacities in the period when they are not processing sugar beet ( Kolodov : 1984 , p. 16 ) . |
| 4 | The moas have all gone — mostly wiped out by the Maoris , who arrived in about the tenth century AD , and have dispelled the myth that hunter-gathering people necessarily live in harmony with nature . |
| 5 | Three hundred tons of fish arrived daily from the western fishing ports . |
| 6 | The election arrived just at the right time . |
| 7 | The alarm was not raised until last Friday when one arrived home with the wrong surname on an identity bracelet . |
| 8 | Having to get up very early in the mornings he tended to be in bed by the time she arrived home on the last bus from Bath . |
| 9 | She arrived promptly in the Green Drawing Room for pre-lunch drinks and then found herself seated next to Prince Andrew , who was on leave from his Royal Navy flying duties . |
| 10 | Lafontant arrived openly from the Dominican Republic where he had been living [ see p. 37073 ] , despite orders from the Minister of the Interior , Joseph Maxi for his arrest . |
| 11 | He arrived back at the appointed spot some ten minutes early , and spent an irritable half-hour tramping up and down before Lefevre 's return . |
| 12 | And when they arrived back at the ruined castle the fox was given a share of the supper and a place by the fire . |
| 13 | Leopold 's grudging blessing arrived by post the next day . |
| 14 | French firms arrived late at the foreign-investment auction and paid high prices as a result . |
| 15 | I arrived there during the last day of it , and heard Dr. Bernardo pleading eloquently on behalf of the children he labours so unweariedly to rescue from the streets of our great cities , and also saw a gathering of the colporteurs gathered from the north and west , to get a word of encouragement in their laborious work of carrying pure literature into the homes of those who in numbers of instances live beyond the reach of the minister and the bookseller . |
| 16 | I arrived there at the due time and waited and waited , but no corporal appeared . |
| 17 | But all the first-year students had arrived together on the first day of term and sought out the one fixed event in the university calendar , the Freshmen 's Fayre . |
| 18 | So bring your blankets , picnics and arrive early for the pre-show entertainment . |
| 19 | If all members of the human race had arrived roughly at the same time at the point when the need for a ‘ god ’ had started to influence human behaviour , it may well have been that the existence of a disastrous diversity of ‘ gods ’ , all of whom according to their worshippers conferred privileges , would never have become established . |
| 20 | When he had arrived back in the cold dawn that early morning after the night with Emily , it was to find his landlady Mrs McIntosh waiting , his valise and books by her , her face severe . |
| 21 | The effect of suppression , wherever it occurs , is that stimuli presented to the left ear are destined predominantly for the right hemisphere and stimuli heard at the right ear arrive mainly in the left hemisphere . |
| 22 | She did n't know but what she did know was that Fernando would n't do anything to hurt anyone … only herself , as he had threatened when she had first arrived here at the lovely Casa Pinar . |
| 23 | I remember my excitement when I had arrived there for the first time from St Aubyn 's . |
| 24 | Companies often recruit staff from speculative letters they have kept on file , and your letter may arrive just at the right moment . |
| 25 | Wyllie will arrive early in the New Year . |
| 26 | From here both ipsilateral ( uncrossed ) and contralateral ( crossed ) fibres pass successively upwards to the lateral lemniscus , inferior colliculus and medial geniculate nucleus before arriving finally at the superior gyrus of the temporal lobe . |
| 27 | It 's a hundred and twenty miles — say up to three hours in that little crate — and he could make the night train down , arriving home in the early morning and , with luck , not being recognized by anybody on the trip or at the station , and not disturbing the family . ’ |
| 28 | Mist is a swine , and on arriving back at the little lochan I started to become confused again . |
| 29 | Arriving back at the large beach house , she took the two sleepy children upstairs to their large bedroom , firmly overriding their protests that no , they really did n't want a bath by pointing out to them that they were still covered with sand and sea water . |