Example sentences of "arrive [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the gatehouse the milk float arrives with the daily delivery and Tim Tyier , the milkman who has served the Centre for many years , starts his rounds . |
| 2 | The punch I place on his chin arrives with the full weight of my body and jolts his head back as if it was on elastic . |
| 3 | The next day she transfers to the much slower cart ( telega ) which arrives in the late afternoon in Roslavl' , a bustling railway-town . |
| 4 | He realises they are fighting only to ‘ gild ’ Menelaus ' horns ; and is disgusted by Cressida 's easy morals when she arrives in the Greek camp , kissing anyone that offers : |
| 5 | Everything going into the hole dust clouds , light beams , stars , spacecraft , you anything crossing the boundary sphere marking the edge of the hole — it gets crushed out of existence when it arrives at the central point of the hole . ’ |
| 6 | In calculating the time when a review is due , the starting point is : ( a ) where a person is arrested outside the police station ( i ) the time he arrives at the relevant station ; or ( ii ) the time 24 hours after the time of his arrest , whichever is the earlier ; ( b ) where a person attends the police station voluntarily and is subsequently arrested there the time of arrest ; ( c ) where a person is arrested outside England and Wales : ( i ) the time he arrives at the first station to which he is taken in the police area in which the offence for which he has been arrested is being investigated ; or ( ii ) 24 hours after the time of his entry into the country whichever is the earlier ; ( d ) where a person is arrested in another part of the country and has to be taken to the police area where the offence is being investigated for questioning — the time at which he arrived at the first police station in the police area in question . |
| 7 | A lady arrives at the front counter with something to be looked at . |
| 8 | The Doctor realises that there is no way the two teachers could have achieved all this , but it is Barbara who arrives at the real solution . |
| 9 | Brief Ecstasy ( 1937 ) , for example , is a powerful drama centring on a woman who has married her professor and abandoned work for a life ‘ sitting all day knitting jumpers for my husband ’ , who is then thrown into a whirlpool of desire when her one-time lover arrives at the marital home . |
| 10 | After passing Cross House and noting its sundial , the road arrives at the sad ruin of Gibb 's Hall , once a handsome building with literary associations ; it was here that Mary Howitt wrote a novel about Dentdale called Hope On , Hope Ever . |
| 11 | These movements are preprogrammed " ballistic " responses whose velocities are determined by the anticipated distance of travel , ensuring that the eye arrives at the right place after a fixed period of time . |
| 12 | She walks from her flat at the wrong end of Ladbroke Grove , along the Harrow Road , under various stretches of motorway , past the Metropole Hotel where she calls in to buy herself a drink in the Cosmo-Cocktail Bar ( she is perversely fond of the Metropole Hotel ) , and then through various increasingly handsome although gloomy back streets , until she arrives at the arranged corner . |
| 13 | Already , the show which arrives at the Royal Court on June 24 , has gone down very well at Universities . |
| 14 | At six in the morning the descent party arrives at the High Force Hotel . |
| 15 | Tension was mounting as preparations got underway for the first ever race between a balloon , a steamroller … and a narrowboat.As entrants arrived for the annual steam rally at Upton , the contestants in the battle of the giants were all expressing optimism.Balloonist Chris Viles reckoned he was in with a good chance : |
| 16 | That Wednesday a letter also arrived for the young Vicomte de Chagny . |
| 17 | A few minutes later , Andy Tyrie , Supreme Commander , UDA , arrived for the cancelled meeting . |
| 18 | I arrived for the American premiere and these ghosts made no sense at all . |
| 19 | He arrived as the black district of Watts , Los Angeles was exploding . |
| 20 | It arrived via the diplomatic bag on Saturday morning . |
| 21 | Beuno arrived with the lengthening shadows , bearing a dead pheasant . |
| 22 | When Penry arrived with the promised drink he also brought a hot-water bottle . |
| 23 | The waiter arrived with the red wine they had ordered , and Loretta took a decision . |
| 24 | The courtyard was filling with horses as staff officers , all alerted by the distant musketry , arrived from the various brigade headquarters to seek information and orders . |
| 25 | He arrived from the deep country to attend university . |
| 26 | The Fat Controller and I were back inside the bolt when it arrived from the bonded warehouse at Felixstowe . |
| 27 | As we drank our coffee , a lorry arrived from the main group to pick up Macier whose blisters had burst , preventing him from walking . |
| 28 | And hardly had the congratulations died down when a bronze awards for safety performance arrived from the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents . |
| 29 | In 209 BC spoils arrived from the Greek city of Tarentum , in south-east Italy . |
| 30 | It was almost totally dark when they arrived in the stable yard and Catherine jumped involuntarily as something moved and rattled against the boards . |