Example sentences of "[adv] arrive [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Almost anybody who is offered an honour of some kind indicates that he has had a period of anxious , nay tortured reflection , but somehow inexorably arrives at the conclusion that duty demands — duty to his family , his wife , his children , his bank manager — that he should accept the honour . |
| 2 | On his way down to take part in an official inspection , Wycliffe had monitored reports on his car radio and so arrived at the scene of crime before his headquarters had got a team together . |
| 3 | Jimmy Marks had become the Commander of No 35 Squadron and so arrived on the day that the Pathfinders were formed with his hind-picked aircrews from No 1 Group . |
| 4 | First models only arrived from the Kuala Lumpur factory in March 1989 but it has since doubled budgeted sales here ( topping 18,000 by the end of 1990 ) , outsold Hyundai and Seat , and has a higher market share than several more illustrious name . |
| 5 | The European-style Kunsthalle has suddenly arrived on the scene — in triplicate |
| 6 | The most obvious reason is that the author only arrived on the scene at the end of the process , and has had to reconstruct the design and development phases from inevitably superficial interviews . |
| 7 | If you are not disciplined enough to arrive at the agency as though dressed for work you may not be taken on to the books . |
| 8 | This may be one reason why ecological engineering was slow to reach Britain , and Scotland in particular , only arriving in the mid-1980s on a tide of environmental consciousness . |
| 9 | 14 The impulse finally arrives at the biceps by means of the motor end plate . |
| 10 | When they finally arrived at the cathedral , the world held its collective breath and Diana , with her father leaning heavily on her arm , walked with painful slowness down the aisle . |
| 11 | A police car finally arrived at the scene and officers spoke to the motorist . |
| 12 | Baldwin finally arrived at the Palace at 3.00 p.m . |
| 13 | When the unpleasant severed object finally arrived at the hospital a nurse said brightly , normally one would , fingers crossed ! |
| 14 | I negotiated my way to Piccadilly — those illuminations are a splendid sight — and after a few more adventures finally arrived at the Savoy . |
| 15 | We finally arrived at the house . |
| 16 | Hauling ourselves up a zig-zagging path , brushing juicy punga ferns aside with our loaded rucksacks , we finally arrived in the Mount Robert winder ski basin . |
| 17 | I plagued him till he finally arrived in the gloom of night with his needle and re-did the test virtually on the tube on the way home . |
| 18 | His pace quickened as the accents changed ; City gents in long black coats and bowlers gave way to professional men in dark suits and trilbies , to be taken over by rough lads in ill-fitting clothes and caps , until Charlie finally arrived in the East End , where even the boaters had been abandoned by those under thirty . |
| 19 | Wasteland , half-hidden behind hoardings , came into view and Tony soon arrived at the site which had held the theatre . |
| 20 | We do this by assuming that it is in fact cooperative , and then asking ourselves what possible connection there could be between the location of Bill and the location of a yellow VW , and thus arrive at the suggestion ( which B effectively conveys ) that , if Bill has a yellow VW , he may be in Sue 's house . |
| 21 | Here , a family group has just arrived at the giraffe 's enclosure on a day out at the zoo ( 1 ) . |
| 22 | Mother would n't have anything to do with it whatsoever , do n't you bring anything , any of that stuff into our house , I mean of course it be this New Zealand lamb had just arrived on the scene before the First Word War , I mean nobody was , anybody dare have it I mean they 'd be standing on the pavement at eleven o'clock at night almost giving it away on Saturday night , but anyway that 's all changed now , we all eat it . |
| 23 | He turned to look at Denholm who had just arrived on the bridge . |
| 24 | I nodded and he continued , ‘ You 've only just arrived on the island . |
| 25 | These models have just arrived in the country , and the Bass Centre have let us grab a look at them at very short notice . |
| 26 | He 'd noticed that the geese had just arrived in the back fields . |
| 27 | I 'm not sure where it 's gone today , but for the energetic a new book of Oxfordshire rambles has just arrived in the bookshop . |
| 28 | Wedgewood sets out to find it and both parties discover that someone has already arrived on the Moon before them … |
| 29 | We have not described properly the impact of refugees from Bosnia who have already arrived in the United Kingdom — local councils for Birmingham and Norwich are having difficulty in finding money to house them . |
| 30 | " It is now stated that a vast importation of Irish Beggars have already arrived upon the Island , and that others are likely to follow from the misconduct of our own Boatmen — the Community at large are warned to beware of harbouring foreign beggars … " |