Example sentences of "arrived [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course it 's not easy to keep up the smiles in public , as the couple showed in Seoul yesterday when they arrived for a five-day Korean visit . |
| 2 | Anglers discovered dead fish frozen into the Grand Union Canal when they arrived for a major match . |
| 3 | Christopher arrived for a Dry Martini with his officers , some in battle-dress , some in denim fatigues like their men . |
| 4 | Lech Walesa became the first Polish President to visit Israel when he arrived for a four-day visit on May 20 . |
| 5 | ROYAL baby doctor Sir George Pinker arrived for a quiet lunch yesterday — to find Princess Diana and 1,000 other people had turned up to honour him . |
| 6 | South African President F W de Klerk ducked out of the row when he arrived for a three-day visit to Britain . |
| 7 | With the Italian press still buzzing with the story of the Grand Canal assault , Denis Law 's brother Joe arrived for a short holiday from Aberdeen . |
| 8 | It was in September 1953 that I arrived as a new boy at Woolverstone Hall School and it may be that Ray was also new to the school . |
| 9 | There is little sign of a struggle so I conclude our murderer arrived as a welcome visitor . ’ |
| 10 | The pasty-faced bureaucrats at New Scotland Yard were not to know he felt about as much at home there when he first arrived as a Martian . |
| 11 | On Saturdays , it arrived with a stylish colour magazine , taken over from the Sunday Telegraph . |
| 12 | Men and machinery arrived with a great deal of noise and bustle . |
| 13 | Later , when we were helping William take the Jet Ski out of the water , some very loud people — all wearing black leather jackets with BMW logos — arrived with a gleaming black Range Rover and a big black ski boat . |
| 14 | At length , among music and spotlights , flags and banners , the black-clad figure of Mosley arrived with a uniformed bodyguard of more than fifty supporters . |
| 15 | One year he arrived with a young lady , then came back when she was his wife . |
| 16 | Madeleine came up to see me last Monday for a couple of days and arrived with a sore throat too , so she had a well deserved rest after the excesses of their very social Christmas and life and also encouraged me , the weather and the throats keeping us indoors , to do some MUCH needed turning out . |
| 17 | It arrived with a new sticker : ‘ Erster Airbus A340 flügel von Deutsche Airbus , Bremen . ’ |
| 18 | Eventually two very dim stretcher bearers arrived with a first aid outfit . |
| 19 | But one day , after that first programme , some friends from Halifax arrived with a little black and white Border collie pup , so small he could only just manage to get over the doorstep . |
| 20 | Mathers arrived with a hand-sized tape cassette machine and a sucker cup for the telephone . |
| 21 | The paradox exemplified : next day , I 'm at Mile End Hospital with a patient who arrived with a pleural effusion , desperately short of breath , the previous night . |
| 22 | The mess sergeant arrived with a brief respite : Captain Apgood was at the back door . |
| 23 | ‘ The newsagent across the road arrived with a huge pile of Mirrors at eight o'clock and he 'd sold out by 10 . |
| 24 | A sinister looking cluster of motor-bikes huddled in front of the other one , the Goat and Compasses ; as the Glovers passed two more arrived with a deafening roar and two androgynous figures , clad in skin-tight leather as though for a bout of deep-sea diving , went into the pub , stripping off immense gauntlets . |
| 25 | A message arrived from a local farmer who had found and secured it until it could be reclaimed . |
| 26 | He propelled himself to the ledge with minimal protection — being too knackered to stop and place anything better — and arrived in a sweating heap , to the knowing grins of the rockstars . |
| 27 | It arrived in a great flood , a shock-wave of water that could be felt and heard . |
| 28 | Haverford got up early , sat in the garden jotting away until , as often as not , Don Marco arrived in a small rattling car and took him off on an unknown errand . |
| 29 | To understand the rage you had to see the age , when art curses and kicks society so much it changes it , you have to realise they arrived in a perfect time-spot . |
| 30 | David arrived in a beige boiler-suit and trainers , fitting for his serious directness , for he was a shy man when not warmed to a subject : small-talk was not his forte . |