Example sentences of "men arrived [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Mum was pleased as punch when she saw what we 'd got , particularly when the men arrived with the brass bedsteads and a red striped flock mattress .
2 A striking example of the area 's isolation occurred when Yakovlev and his thirteen men arrived at the end of their horse-ride in the village of Nikol'sk .
3 The raiding party was to leave by air for Jalo on 11 January , but shortly before this a bedraggled group of men arrived at the base camp .
4 The landowner claimed that Antonio Gilvan da Cruz and the son of the community 's political leader were responsible for the incident and at about 4am on 28 November 1990 , a group of eight armed men arrived at the Custodio house in a remote corner of the Truka land .
5 To their combined relief , it was not long before the two men arrived at the driveway and stepped cautiously out onto its surface .
6 This is because , long before white men arrived on the scene , the local Indians living deep in the Amazonian rain forests caught and killed these animals to provide themselves with the poison tips for their arrows .
7 Two days later , on 29 September , the Feast of St Michael and All Angels , Balboa and his men arrived on the shores of the great sea , to take possession of it for God and for Castile .
8 Yesterday , another British armoured vehicle with six men arrived in the village .
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