Example sentences of "arrived [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Three hundred tons of fish arrived daily from the western fishing ports . |
| 3 | Even the daylong scream of the gulls was silent in here , and the hooters and sound signals arrived only as a distant complaint . |
| 4 | The election arrived just at the right time . |
| 5 | The alarm was not raised until last Friday when one arrived home with the wrong surname on an identity bracelet . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | She arrived home from a foreign holiday yesterday considerably richer than when she left . |
| 8 | Maxwell , 33 , who has debts of £406.5 million , arrived promptly for a 20-minute interview with a job counsellor at Didcot , Oxon . |
| 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 | They proceeded at the double along plasteel-ribbed corridors in the direction of the Foundries ; and after descending several levels by drop-shaft arrived presently at a fan-vaulted vestibule where power swords , power axes , and other weapons hung . |
| 14 | Leopold 's grudging blessing arrived by post the next day . |
| 15 | French firms arrived late at the foreign-investment auction and paid high prices as a result . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | We arrived there on a wild morning in May , having the previous evening taken the ferry from Fishguard in Wales to Rosslare , Co Wexford , about 50 miles away . |
| 18 | I arrived there at the due time and waited and waited , but no corporal appeared . |