Example sentences of "[vb past] arrived [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The gangs had already been selected to work on the other three small coasters which had arrived over the past weekend . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The verderers had arrived at the tumbled stones soon after the moon rose . |
| 4 | By this time two fire engines and a police van had arrived at the front entrance . |
| 5 | He had arrived at the forward brigade post three hours earlier . |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | The men had arrived at the empty farmhouse fifteen hours earlier , just as dusk was falling . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He had arrived at the precise moment when another twist in the plot of a murder weekend was unravelling itself . |
| 12 | Now that he had arrived at the wildest part of Britain , he wished to use his adventure in the same spirit as that in which Montaigne wrote his famous Essais — as trials of himself , as investigations of the ideas that arose in the non-stop chatter of his mind . |
| 13 | Saxe-Weimar had arrived at the very nick of time . |
| 14 | Presently he was there , he had arrived at the wooden planks and the criss-crossed supports of the bridge . |
| 15 | He had absolutely , however , set his face against accepting help from Ruby Dobby although she had arrived on the second floor that morning full of promises if not promise . |
| 16 | To the outside world they had arrived on the international scene as self-made , jet-setting millionaires . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The information had arrived by the first post that morning , and Jared Tunstall already knew more about Neil Cochrane than Neil Cochrane did about him . |
| 19 | Edward had arrived by the overnight train and felt like death . |
| 20 | Before he had time to do so , Caballeros and Bugner had arrived from the 16th green . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Some of these plants had arrived in the last box , but in a bad condition and , moreover , unnamed . |
| 23 | 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 . |