Example sentences of "to arrive [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Odd-Knut thinks that it might be best to make a night trip with empty sledges , returning to the camp , especially as a friend of his is likely to arrive for the night .
2 That gives us two hours to get there and two hours to prepare before Mait 's people begin to arrive for the ceremony . ’
3 I await the first sighting of this crucial volume with the awed anticipation of a Crusader waiting for the Holy Grail to arrive through the post .
4 It is seen at Harman 's Cross waiting for passengers to arrive off the train to take them on to Corfe Castle .
5 The Four Horse Men of the Apocalypse apparently felt it inappropriate to arrive as a messenger of divine retribution .
6 The company aims to extend Jedi beyond System 7 to other environments , including Windows itself , and is expected to arrive as a product late this year or early next .
7 The company aims to extend Jedi beyond System 7 to other environments , including Windows itself , and is expected to arrive as a product late this year or early next .
8 Mrs Purry , his daily woman , was due to arrive during the afternoon to polish and lay the table , hoover the carpet , dust the room , and — most important of all — cook the meal .
9 Sarah Hunt , 74 , was left soaked in blood after holding her sister for at least 25 minutes while waiting for an ambulance to arrive after the tragedy in Bishop Auckland .
10 Bear left horizontally along the level to arrive beneath the Rainbow Slab in about 300 yards .
11 The desire to establish that one was the first to arrive with the finding , and the priority disputes which are part of the scientific game , are testimony to the point .
12 Sir Robert Carey , Warden of the English Middle March , had been in London visiting the queen , but had prudently arranged for relays of horses to be ready for him between the capital and Edinburgh , so that he could ingratiate himself with the King of Scots by being the first to arrive with the news that he was now King of England also .
13 Mrs Wilson was particularly glad that the maid , Elsie , chose this moment to arrive with the tea tray .
14 They left the coast after they had harvested any catch-crops and grazed the stubble , to arrive in the south for the date harvest , feeding their animals on fodder-dates and forage crops until it was time to return north .
15 Others , such as young Australians and New Zealanders , travelled west to arrive in the squalor of Earl 's Court , London .
16 The fifth yacht to arrive in the space of eight hours , Rhone Poulenc , carried a crewman who 'd spoken to his family in Gloucester only once on the whole trip .
17 I could stake myself out and let Nevil come for me , relying on Malpass and the boys in blue to arrive in the nick of time .
18 Dishwater fluids are probably the biggest containers to arrive in the kitchen .
19 The first shipments were not expected to arrive in the country until the autumn .
20 On Aug. 4 and 5 , in the week before UN staff were due to arrive in the territory to start preparing the January 1992 UN-supervised referendum [ see p. 38169 ] , Moroccan aircraft strafed the oasis of Tfariti in the north-east , near the Mauritanian border , while Polisario Front guerrillas claimed to have shot down a Moroccan aircraft .
21 The ladies ' timing is impeccable : usually they turn up on the day that social-security cheques are due to arrive in the post .
22 Luckily for Chris his A Level assessor will come TO the school to look at his work , rather than expecting his project to arrive in the post .
23 It was the perfect moment to arrive in the city where I was to spend the next year .
24 Equality of the sexes has yet to arrive in the world of birds .
25 Peggy Wood speaks for the Past and Present Team : ‘ No sooner had we packed away the remnants of Past and Present 1991 , than things began to arrive in the cupboard for 1992 – and what a selection of lovely bits and pieces .
26 At Morgan Stanley , Merrill Lynch and Salomon , some pay has started to arrive in the form of a firm 's stock rather than by cheque .
27 She is planning a comeback visit to Britain her first since shows in 1989 were scrapped because of ill health and expects to arrive in the summer .
28 It had taken a week to obtain , and had Hapsburg officialdom realized that it was for him rather than Aranyos it would have been unlikely to arrive before the end of the war .
29 The rest were scheduled to arrive before the end of September .
30 In fact it 's sometimes said that it 's one of the very great privileges of the public is that they can , by dint of writing something , and putting it in an envelope with a stamp on it , get it to arrive on an editor 's desk , and have the editor at least give a cursory glance if not a more serious glance at what 's going on , so it 's a privilege and it 's an opportunity in that case .
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