Example sentences of "to arrive [prep] [art] [noun] " 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 | He was in the main street before nine o'clock and many of the shops were not yet open ; assistants were waiting in doorways for the boss to arrive with the keys . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Mrs Wilson was particularly glad that the maid , Elsie , chose this moment to arrive with the tea tray . |
| 15 | In the early days of gliding , trestles were not considered essential as an aid to rigging ; I remember the very first ASW17 to arrive in the UK being rigged without them . |
| 16 | The aircraft was the first salvaged from the Soviet Union to arrive in the UK . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Others , such as young Australians and New Zealanders , travelled west to arrive in the squalor of Earl 's Court , London . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The first part to arrive in the West End Farm workshop was a 20-year-old back-end from an International 806 tractor . |
| 22 | Dishwater fluids are probably the biggest containers to arrive in the kitchen . |
| 23 | The first shipments were not expected to arrive in the country until the autumn . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The ladies ' timing is impeccable : usually they turn up on the day that social-security cheques are due to arrive in the post . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | He was one of the first showbiz stars to arrive in the Falklands during the conflict . |
| 28 | It was the perfect moment to arrive in the city where I was to spend the next year . |
| 29 | Equality of the sexes has yet to arrive in the world of birds . |
| 30 | 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 . |