Example sentences of "arrive [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When our messenger arrives with the packaging for Grapevine , can you please give him the PAL masters for Business Assignments ? |
| 2 | Generally speaking , psychology has concentrated on the processes involved in dealing with verbal data as it arrives in the individual . |
| 3 | As this becomes overloaded , i.e. as more information arrives in the message , an untrained interpreter tends to do one of the following : |
| 4 | We did n't definitely know that when we had the meeting , but he is coming and I will write to him when he arrives in the country . |
| 5 | He 's expecting to see son Gary when he arrives in the North ; he lives in Dad 's old home town of Middlesbrough . |
| 6 | Royal circus arrives in the land of calm |
| 7 | Every month , say officials of the UN 's World Food Programme , less than half the required 6,000 tonnes of rice arrives in the city ; Médecins Sans Frontières reports that 20 children die of starvation in the city 's hospitals each day . |
| 8 | As to state of mind , Raskolnikov lives with his own continuously but inspects it only intermittently , like the rest of us ; whereas the author surveys the whole truth the whole time , so that we never find him wondering whether perhaps Raskolnikov is thinking this or perhaps he is thinking that : a fact which isolates Crime and Punishment among the mature novels , because elsewhere Dostoevsky loves the unsettled and unsettling narrative posture of ‘ perhaps ’ , particularly with his contracting and dilating collective voice , the ‘ we ’ swept by rumour and speculation which arrives in The House of the Dead and reaches its full flowering in The Possessed . |
| 9 | He arrives in the County to face a crime rate rising at more than 32 percent a year . |
| 10 | In spite of a wardrobe bulging with clothes , most women complain that they have n't a thing to wear when any invitation arrives in the post . |
| 11 | The summons arrives in the post . |
| 12 | If a group arrives in the morning before the housekeeping department has had time to clean and service all the rooms , then the group must be made comfortable whilst waiting to gain access to their rooms . |
| 13 | A storm arrives from the west , the snow falling so thickly in a few minutes that I fear I will lose my way . |
| 14 | Mostly our air arrives from the west which is why we sit up and take notice of the weather in America , although actually it can change a great deal on the way over here . |
| 15 | A letter arrives from the railway company , stating that if they ca n't purchase all the necessary land for the agreed route , they 'll pull out . |
| 16 | As I am preparing to set off from Oxford a copy of a fax arrives from the production office . |
| 17 | He arrives without the key and sends a runner to the office to retrieve it , while he calls the register in the rain . |
| 18 | Of course he will feel jealous when a new baby arrives on the scene — even if he does his best not to show it . |
| 19 | He arrives on the scene about two minutes after the bell has rung for the start of break , clutching his large black Bible under his arm . |
| 20 | By the time the accident investigator arrives on the scene , however , the ice has melted and the evidence has vanished . |
| 21 | The male oriental fruit moth employs greater subterfuge by producing a scent similar to the female 's as soon as he arrives on the scene . |
| 22 | Bribe the chambermaid , who swears that I 've slept with my inamorata , with of course , lewd and immoral carryings-on ; private detective arrives on the scene and catches us it … in flagrante delicto , so to speak . |
| 23 | Until St Paul arrives on the scene , the general atmosphere is one of respectability . |
| 24 | Until MS-DOS 6.0 arrives on the scene sometime near March 1993 and we see what disk compression it offers , Xtradrive seems to provide probably the simplest way to get more capacity from your hard disk . |
| 25 | It is all too easy to pay too much in the heady atmosphere of a contested bid , or to be coerced into making a higher offer ( particularly if a competitor arrives on the scene ) just to avoid paying abortive costs with nothing to show for the expenditure . |
| 26 | Rather , on the assumption that the firm manages to devise effective mechanisms for routeing potentially relevant information from the external environment to its decision makers , we will ask : ‘ How should we try to ensure that the information , when it arrives on the executive 's desk , is usable by that executive ? ’ |
| 27 | Reality strikes home when the learner arrives on the ward to find it overcrowded with beds , chairs , trolleys and even patients . |
| 28 | It is clearly inappropriate to involve Julie in a prolonged conversation as soon as she arrives on the ward . |
| 29 | I am one of those people whose money burns a hole in the pocket whenever anything promising arrives on the market . |
| 30 | Even worse off is the pilot who still believes he will make it and takes no action until he arrives on the ground or in a hedge . |