Example sentences of "[pron] arrive [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | As for myself , I arrived at the first weekend in a state of high evangelism that must have bored everyone I met . |
| 3 | I crossed the Thames at Tower Bridge and walked further south than I had ever been before , and when I arrived at the rival market I could n't believe my eyes . |
| 4 | I found fifteen waiting for me when I arrived at the Awash Station , all thoroughly unhappy at the prospect ahead . |
| 5 | As I arrived at the recent show of Eileen Cooper 's drawings at the Benjamin Rhodes Gallery after visiting the controversial ( read media-hype ) show , Strange Developments , at the Anthony d'Offay Gallery , I could not help but find great comfort in the sheer generosity of spirit with which these big drawings greet you . |
| 6 | When I arrived at the Big House , I was asked to stay to lunch . |
| 7 | I arrived for the American premiere and these ghosts made no sense at all . |
| 8 | Not until I arrived on the 18th tee 1-down did it suddenly occur to me that I was on the point of losing . |
| 9 | Certainly I always tried to remember the shocking effect which the sight of so many old prisoners , some of them bearded , all of them strangely dressed , had had on me the first time I arrived in a main camp . |
| 10 | ‘ You think I arrived in the last shower or rain ? |
| 11 | Already , the show which arrives at the Royal Court on June 24 , has gone down very well at Universities . |
| 12 | The next day she transfers to the much slower cart ( telega ) which arrives in the late afternoon in Roslavl' , a bustling railway-town . |
| 13 | Simultaneous with the emergence of the swept wing shape and its cambered sails stretched either side of a central spine , there were other innovations which arrived during the same development period . |
| 14 | Even the Committee felt low , not one of them arrived at the next schedule meeting ! |
| 15 | The two of them arrived at the broken gate of a house even more rackety than its peeling neighbours . |
| 16 | The Doctor realises that there is no way the two teachers could have achieved all this , but it is Barbara who arrives at the real solution . |
| 17 | Judge , then , the surprise of the visitor who arrives on a fine spring day to find the scent of the linden trees on the Bahnhofstrasse filling the air . |
| 18 | To George 's annoyance , everyone seems to be conspiring against his grandiose plans — especially the old lady who arrives on the same day as Tony Madoc . |
| 19 | She walks from her flat at the wrong end of Ladbroke Grove , along the Harrow Road , under various stretches of motorway , past the Metropole Hotel where she calls in to buy herself a drink in the Cosmo-Cocktail Bar ( she is perversely fond of the Metropole Hotel ) , and then through various increasingly handsome although gloomy back streets , until she arrives at the arranged corner . |
| 20 | He realises they are fighting only to ‘ gild ’ Menelaus ' horns ; and is disgusted by Cressida 's easy morals when she arrives in the Greek camp , kissing anyone that offers : |
| 21 | All the same , she could feel butterflies in her stomach when she arrived at the imposing entrance to Puddephat 's college at twelve . |
| 22 | She arrived at the same moment as Nina and they saw that Greg was already unlocking the factory ambulance and David was in consultation with one of the factory managers . |
| 23 | When she arrived at the Red House , a large Citroën was parked at the top of the short drive . |
| 24 | When she arrived in the outer office , she sat at her desk , trembling , hoping Damian would not appear all day , but of course she was lying to herself again , appalled by her own desire . |
| 25 | In New York , UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali informed Alatas that the UN was studying the report of his special envoy , Kenyan Attorney General Amos Wako , who arrived on an official visit to Indonesia on Feb. 8 and made a two-day visit to East Timor on Feb. 13-14 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | When the attack finally came Madrid withstood it , thanks in part to the courage of the left-wing militias and the ordinary people of the city , and in part to the stiffening effect of the first International Brigades — foreign volunteers organized by the Comintern , who arrived at the crucial moment . |
| 28 | Blossom would have been a suitable name for the large oilman who arrived in a huge lorry to deliver the central heating oil . |
| 29 | The mountains have an undisputed lure , the Russian people a warmth and generosity that will come as a very pleasant surprise to all who arrive with an open mind and a readiness to respond with a smile . |
| 30 | We 've all seen it when you arrive at a new prison . |