Example sentences of "[noun sg] arrived [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Tess and Angel arrived at the old d'Urberville farmhouse . |
| 4 | ‘ Her mum arrived on the fourth day of the honeymoon , ’ he said . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | An official inquiry indicates that her body arrived at the Military Hospital at 16:20 the same day and came from the Military School . |
| 8 | Coming last , the package arrived on the 22nd , was Fingerprint . |
| 9 | The waiter arrived with the red wine they had ordered , and Loretta took a decision . |
| 10 | The waiter arrived with the next course and they reverted to politics , talking Spanish again , Ward 's tone , his whole manner softened . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I had hired a moped in Tiree , there being no bicycles left , and like a multicoloured Batman Snoopy in my Mary Quant cape arrived at the Balemartine Baptist church for morning service . |
| 13 | A SHADOW was cast over a sombre Royal wreath-laying ceremony yesterday when the Prince of Wales ' convoy arrived on the wrong side of a monument to one of Poland 's most painful wartime memories . |
| 14 | As we drank our coffee , a lorry arrived from the main group to pick up Macier whose blisters had burst , preventing him from walking . |
| 15 | All that is verging on the silly : as one who can remember Andy Pandy and the ravishing girl who read ‘ Picture Book ’ , the fact that daytime television arrived in the last six or seven years seems rather insignificant . |
| 16 | The next morning Bathsheba and her maid Liddy were dusting some books , when a visitor arrived at the front door . |
| 17 | Even forty or fifty years ago , middle age arrived in the forties , at which time it was normal to develop a comfortable middle-aged spread and to withdraw from the sex and beauty stakes . |
| 18 | The locomotive arrived on the Great Central Railway in February 1986 , after being purchased from Messrs Woodham Brothers of Barry , South Wales in November 1985 . |
| 19 | The timber arrived in the finishing shop and was machined by the aid of jigs and stops , passing from machine to adjacent benches where it was fitted together . |
| 20 | But less than a month later , John Osborne 's Look Back in Anger arrived at the Royal Court , and elegant , well-made drawing-room plays like this were supposedly consigned to the dustbin of theatrical history . |
| 21 | On Aug. 16 , as a shipment of UN relief arrived for the first time in the southern port of Kismayo , a local militia which had been hired to protect it stole 600 tonnes of food and fuel . |
| 22 | And hardly had the congratulations died down when a bronze awards for safety performance arrived from the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents . |
| 23 | On the morning of the 28th the Emperor arrived at the tiny railway station accompanied by the Empress and by the 14-year-old Prince Imperial , who , like his father , was wearing military uniform , since he was destined also to go to Metz . |
| 24 | One Friday morning a new young doctor arrived in the private room where Ken Lomax lay . |
| 25 | Some weeks later , a letter arrived at the little white house on the hill . |
| 26 | It is even more of a coincidence that your letter arrived at the same time as Mrs Hart 's . |
| 27 | A maid arrived at the 23-year-old model 's £500,000 Paris flat expecting to find her . |
| 28 | A few months later , a champion European bull arrived in the diplomatic bag . |
| 29 | Alice sought out Mary and they watched appreciatively as the two strong , tall , graceful , beautifully built young men whirled each other about , endured two dog falls — draws — and only after several lengthy spasms of athletic tussling arrived at the deciding fall . |
| 30 | The first 16 feet of ramp arrived from the then defunct skatepark in Wokingham in November 1979 . |