Example sentences of "a [noun] arrive " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I finally decided I could n't dawdle over my coffee any longer , a decision arrived at long before by the hard-eyed blonde in charge of the cash register , I climbed back in the heap and headed home . |
| 2 | If a member of a board arrives late at a meeting , and is not present during the whole of a hearing on an application , he must not vote with regard to that application : Goodall v. Bilsland , 1909 S.C . |
| 3 | It was just after 9 p.m. that a PC arrived from the railway station carrying a small brown envelope , which Morse accepted with delight , smiling radiantly at Lewis but saying nothing as he slit open the top and looked briefly inside . |
| 4 | It required but a single coincidence , whereby an apparent answer to a prayer arrived at the appropriate time , to make him believe that his objects of supplication had powers beyond himself , and had brought him relief . |
| 5 | And a vicar arrived , suffering from a sense of isolation within a parish unable to minister to him . |
| 6 | A storm arrives from the west , the snow falling so thickly in a few minutes that I fear I will lose my way . |
| 7 | Dr Meredith had already been sent for , but his lordship was of the view that my father should be moved out of the sun before the doctor 's arrival ; consequently , a bath-chair arrived and with not a little difficulty , my father was transported into the house . |
| 8 | Further assistance was called , a bath-chair arrived in due course , and my father was transported up to his room . |
| 9 | Customer Care — If a customer 's car is off the road for more than 24 hours waiting for a component to arrive , Renault 's Customer Courtesy Service allows him or her to use a replacement vehicle free of charge until the part is delivered and the problem rectified . |
| 10 | Before too long a photographer arrived . |
| 11 | As I sat down to write up my diary a brick arrived through my sitting room window . |
| 12 | In some West Indian islands a yacht arriving without one will be confronted with a customs officer producing a rolled-up flag from his pocket and offering to sell it at an inflated price in an atmosphere of thinly disguised pressure . |
| 13 | There was the sound of a carriage arriving in the street . |
| 14 | Once , while a student of practical magic at Unseen University , and for a bet , he 'd slipped into the little room off the main library — the room with walls covered in protective lead pentagrams , the room no-one was allowed to occupy for more than four minutes and thirty-two seconds , which was a figure arrived at after two hundred years of cautious experimentation … |
| 15 | When a reply arrived which simply said , ‘ The Private Secretary is commanded to express the thanks of The Queen for the kind message of congratulation which you have forwarded to Her Majesty ’ , the assembly rose to its feet and cheered . |
| 16 | When , in the last days of November , a telegram arrived she knew what it must contain and trembled as she held it in her hand . |
| 17 | I had been at St Andrew 's House barely a week , when a telegram arrived at my parents ' home : |
| 18 | Early next morning a telegram arrived . |
| 19 | ‘ A telegram arrived this morning . |
| 20 | Before long , Maudie had a baby — and soon after that , a telegram arrived saying that Arnold had been killed in action . |
| 21 | A telegram arrived saying I was booked on a flight the next day , to be filmed at Pinewood Studios for the title sequences of the James Bond film ‘ A View to a Kill ’ . |
| 22 | By the time I had almost given up hope , a telegram arrived . |
| 23 | Just before dinner , a telegram arrived . |
| 24 | When a priest arrived to administer the last rites , Mansell sent him away . |
| 25 | Finally a soldier arrived and took me back to the Star Room . |
| 26 | After twelve years in management , I have n't yet had a tape arrive which I thought I could do anything with . |
| 27 | One day when Mr Rochester was out alone on business , a stranger arrived in a carriage , and introduced himself as an old friend of the master 's . |
| 28 | AFTER THE soundcheck in Boston , a car arrives to whisk us outside of town to the local alternative radio station . |
| 29 | Ronni was still fizzing with indignation — how dared he make fun of her ? — when , sure enough , a car arrived at the front door , laden with dishes dovered in tin foil . |
| 30 | One morning when I came here there was a car arrived here and it was a a dirty yellow one and thr two women and a bloke got out all dressed in black jeans and black jumpers . |