Example sentences of "[noun] arrive [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Brief Ecstasy ( 1937 ) , for example , is a powerful drama centring on a woman who has married her professor and abandoned work for a life ‘ sitting all day knitting jumpers for my husband ’ , who is then thrown into a whirlpool of desire when her one-time lover arrives at the marital home . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The lads arrive at the local nick to find their Houdini pa has done a bunk and they wander about the country trying to locate him , pitching up in a one horse Long Island seaside town . |
| 5 | It was Brainsby 's idea for Richard Branson to arrive at the inaugural press conference wearing a brown leather aviator 's helmet , à la Biggles , in an attempt to lend the launching of an international airline something of the savour of a Boys Own adventure . |
| 6 | Tim Robbins plays Griffin Mill , a young , fast-track movie executive whose career comes under threat when another young Turk arrives at the same studio . |
| 7 | A lady arrives at the front counter with something to be looked at . |
| 8 | EURO DISNEYLAND , a little bit of America in the flat farmlands of Seine-et-Marne to the east of Paris , opened an hour earlier than planned yesterday as thousands of visitors arrived at the Enchanted Kingdom . |
| 9 | People from all over the world began to make pilgrimages to Monkey Mia and some 200,000 visitors arrived during the 1989 season . |
| 10 | Post-war Britain is not the age when the working-class hero arrived on the literary stage but rather the moment when , with some evident reluctance , he left it . |
| 11 | Tess and Angel arrived at the old d'Urberville farmhouse . |
| 12 | Lord Attenborough arriving at the newly-restored Magdalen bridge in Oxford . |
| 13 | A pair of researchers arrived at the extraordinary conclusion that fusion of deuterons could be achieved without the application of massive external energy , which had previously been thought to be an indispensable condition . |
| 14 | ‘ Patrick arrived in the early hours of the morning , exactly on the hospital due date . |
| 15 | ‘ Her mum arrived on the fourth day of the honeymoon , ’ he said . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Kirov arrived at the agreed meeting place as he always did , at the exact specified time . |
| 18 | Paul Newman , older , of course , and Steve McQueen arrived in the big time , too . |
| 19 | These movements are preprogrammed " ballistic " responses whose velocities are determined by the anticipated distance of travel , ensuring that the eye arrives at the right place after a fixed period of time . |
| 20 | The American team arrived in the British Isles on September 19 following a three hour flight on a British Airways Concorde specially chartered by Wroe Burton Bennett on behalf of the P.G.A . |
| 21 | When Penry arrived with the promised drink he also brought a hot-water bottle . |
| 22 | An official inquiry indicates that her body arrived at the Military Hospital at 16:20 the same day and came from the Military School . |
| 23 | Syl and Robert arrived at the same time and my mother poured them drinks . |
| 24 | When the American troops arrived in the Saudi desert last August they were mainly shod in 1960s canvas-topped ‘ jungle boots ’ , unchanged since Vietnam . |
| 25 | The waiter arrived with the red wine they had ordered , and Loretta took a decision . |
| 26 | The waiter arrived with the next course and they reverted to politics , talking Spanish again , Ward 's tone , his whole manner softened . |
| 27 | The waiter arrived with the third bottle of Valpolicella and Urquhart poured himself a glass with the same relish as if it were his first . |
| 28 | Earlier still , rumour had it that England selectors needed only to whistle down a mine-shaft for a couple of fast bowlers to arrive in the next cage . |
| 29 | Once you have added up the figures in the budget planner , you will have to deduct income tax to arrive at the net spending amount available to you . |
| 30 | He said that it might take two to three years to arrive at the complete version of the social audit , which will be sent to all shareholders with the financial statements . |