Example sentences of "[verb] arrive [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 1993 has arrived without the planned agreement between European Community members on Value Added Tax on sales of works of art , antiques and collector 's items . |
| 2 | A resolution was passed at the 1897 Congress that ‘ the time has arrived for the direct representation of the cooperative movement in Parliament ’ . |
| 3 | But Newton , known in the dressing room as ‘ Isaac ’ , still has to pinch himself to be sure he really has arrived in the big time . |
| 4 | In their discussion of this incident Asikpasazade and Nesri refer to " Mevlana Haydar " as danismend " newly come from Persia " , so that he may well have arrived in the Ottoman lands at about the same time as Fahreddin Acemi . |
| 5 | On writing about his perfect country house , Baillie Scott is adamantly opposed to the vulgar and proposes what he considers to be the simple open plan way of life : ‘ Having arrived at the central idea of a hall or living room as the keynote of a home it follows naturally that one must group round this the various other rooms … first the ‘ ladies ’ bower'' , the ‘ ‘ drawing-room' ’ as we now call it . |
| 6 | It appeared to have arrived at the right time . |
| 7 | The gangs had already been selected to work on the other three small coasters which had arrived over the past weekend . |
| 8 | Once he had arrived at the Southern Capital , he had proclaimed his loyalty to the old gods loudly and publicly , disowning the Aten and throwing himself on the mercy of the priests of Amun , who even then were growing bold as the revolutionary pharaoh lost his grip both on reality and his empire . |
| 9 | The verderers had arrived at the tumbled stones soon after the moon rose . |
| 10 | By this time two fire engines and a police van had arrived at the front entrance . |
| 11 | He had arrived at the forward brigade post three hours earlier . |
| 12 | In an interview with La Stampa yesterday , Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA chief Carlo De Benedetti condemned the pervasive system of political corruption , which he says obligated Olivetti to pay bribes or lose contracts , as ‘ having reduced Italy to a state worse than the Third World ’ : he says that at the last shareholders meeting earlier this year , he had to deny any bribery because he could n't preview information to the shareholders that was intended for the legal authorities ; he says that facing the judges , he felt liberated from a weight — ‘ then I felt a sense of justice — it pleased me to be there , ’ noting that when the company decided that the demands of the postal service for slush funds became too extreme and Olivetti stopped paying , ‘ we did n't sell another machine to the Post — we had arrived at the absurd point where , if we did n't pay , we did n't work and the moment we quit paying , we did n't work any more ’ . |
| 13 | The men had arrived at the empty farmhouse fifteen hours earlier , just as dusk was falling . |
| 14 | Indeed , when the party had arrived at the bleak airport in Tehran in the middle of Ramadan , hoping to find a government delegation of equal weight , nobody was there to meet them . |
| 15 | By early Tuesday afternoon , however , pro-Noriega forces had arrived at the military command headquarters , where General Noriega was apparently being held , and the rebels surrendered . |
| 16 | He had arrived at the precise moment when Elizabeth had begun to sob and then desolately to weep , and all Lydia 's skills , social , sexual and manipulative , had abruptly deserted her . |
| 17 | He had arrived at the precise moment when another twist in the plot of a murder weekend was unravelling itself . |
| 18 | Saxe-Weimar had arrived at the very nick of time . |
| 19 | Presently he was there , he had arrived at the wooden planks and the criss-crossed supports of the bridge . |
| 20 | To the outside world they had arrived on the international scene as self-made , jet-setting millionaires . |
| 21 | Three DGSE frogmen , Roland Verge , Gerald Andries and Jean-Michel Bartelo , had arrived off the northern New Zealand coast in the French yacht Ouvéa using false names and passports . |
| 22 | Edward had arrived by the overnight train and felt like death . |
| 23 | He had arrived in the late afternoon of a perfect summer 's day , was shortly to go off to the Alps and then the Himalayas and had not touched rock for a couple of years , so the urge for activity was upon him . |
| 24 | Significantly , Lee was Taiwan-born and therefore representative of a newer tendency within the KMT , which had traditionally been dominated by older conservative elements from the mainland who had arrived after the communist victory there . |
| 25 | Once they 've arrived at the secret location near Doncaster , they 're placed into the care of the local badger protection group . |
| 26 | The deluge of letters that continued to arrive in the Social Work Department eventually made personal replies an impossible task for the Department . |
| 27 | So we have arrived at the following paradox . |
| 28 | Like it or not , high-tech communications have arrived in the Soviet Union , and the King Canutes of the interior ministry have become an absurdity . |
| 29 | She found she was short-tempered with shop assistants , angry if something she had ordered failed to arrive on the appointed date . |
| 30 | In a non husband and wife situation ( ie where no other reliefs are available ) the mortgage debt assumed will be added to the consideration paid to arrive at the total amount subject to stamp duty . |