Example sentences of "[noun] arrived [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fighting cast a long shadow over the UN peace-keeping operation in Croatia , where the first infantry units arrived over the weekend . |
| 2 | As other police cars arrived at the scene the two men raced across the central reservation and drove off at high speed to be chased later by PC Whitehouse and WPC Larkin . |
| 3 | he told her that even if he was caught he had now enough money to get her , police monitoring calls to the Shipway 's office traced the call within seconds to a phone box at the service station on the A one at Groinby near Gran Grantham Lan , Lincolnshire , police cars arrived at the call box only minutes after the kidnapper had left |
| 4 | ‘ The first Svend knew that there was a search on for Suzie and himself was when my agent arrived at the house earlier this evening , ’ Rune told her calmly as he sorted through a small pile of leaflets . |
| 5 | Almodovar arrived for the Madrid premiere of TIE ME UP ! in a dustcart , proclaiming his solidarity with the gypsies who daily collect cardboard and wastepaper in such vehicles to earn a living . |
| 6 | Welling were originally told £2.70 , but when young Welling fans arrived for the match they found it was £3.90 . |
| 7 | There was a delay between the time the ring started to glow and the point at which the glowing reached its peak , because light from the near side of the ring arrived at the earth while light from the far side was still on its way . |
| 8 | Ramsey arrived at the university in October 1923 . |
| 9 | I remind him that the applicant arrived in the United Kingdom on 23 September 1990 on a flight from Lagos , Nigeria , using a false passport , and claimed that he would be persecuted in Zaire — |
| 10 | When the 1983 demonstration arrived outside the CEGB , it was witnessed by just a handful of press : foreign TV , the Guardian , the Morning Star , and local radio . |
| 11 | The Havards arrived at The Kilns , Maureen played tennis with them , swam with them and provided them with the sandwiches and cakes which she and her mother had been preparing all day . |
| 12 | Born Michael Igor Peschowsky in Berlin in 1931 , Nichols arrived in the USA at the age of seven with his family after fleeing the Nazis . |
| 13 | Pamella 's lawyer arrived on the island , and the two met . |
| 14 | Martin Brundle arrived at the circuit with a mint-fresh six-litre Jaguar XJR-S on load for the day from Tom Walkinshaw Racing , a company connected with the Benetton F1 team for which Brundle is driving this season . |
| 15 | ‘ The police and ambulance arrived on the scene very rapidly and the other driver admitted that it was her fault . |
| 16 | She died before the ambulance arrived at the hospital . |
| 17 | But Mrs Countley , whose son suffered a broken arm , said the ambulance arrived at the scene at 1.30pm . |
| 18 | At about 1600 hours an ambulance arrived outside the facility , its blue light flashing . |
| 19 | They waited beside me making worried encouragements until the ambulance arrived from the direction of Reading . |
| 20 | It was then that the private ambulance arrived from the clinic on the outskirts of the city , and Ahn was stretchered out to the waiting vehicle . |
| 21 | By the time the snow began to thaw he could walk gingerly on his injured ankle and when aid arrived at the farm in the form of Tom 's snow-plough , with Tom guiding the plough and Carrie riding the horse , Seb was standing in the farmyard to greet them . |
| 22 | Then , shortly after the British Task Force arrived off the Falkland Islands , there was another reference to the Santa Maria del Sud : |
| 23 | Other ears heard the transmission , so by the time the force arrived at the target it was covered by a very effective smokescreen . |
| 24 | However , Gorbachev arrived at the plenum with his political standing newly boosted by the surprise announcement of the pact with Yeltsin and the other republican leaders [ see above ] , and this appeared to play a decisive role in the motion 's defeat . |
| 25 | Then , in the winter of 1085 , Alfonso arrived at the gates of Saragossa and laid siege to the city . |
| 26 | Eventually , just before 2 p.m. , a small delegation arrived at the Elephant and Castle seeking clarification of what would be on offer . |
| 27 | Mandela arrived in the United States on June 20 for a 10-day visit amid controversy engendered by an earlier news agency report on the role of the US Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ) in his arrest in August 1962 . |
| 28 | It was from this starting-point that the structuralists arrived at the radical view that all meaning in every sphere of human activity consists of closed systems wholly independent of the material world . |
| 29 | Labour arrived at the figure of 1.25 million Scots living in poverty by combining those on income support , the unemployed , those on low pay and those claiming family credit . |
| 30 | The modern success of the option as a financial instrument arrived with the opening of the Chicago Board Options Exchange ( CBOE ) in April 1973 . |