Example sentences of "a [noun] arrived [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was just after 9 p.m. that a PC arrived from the railway station carrying a small brown envelope , which Morse accepted with delight , smiling radiantly at Lewis but saying nothing as he slit open the top and looked briefly inside . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | As we drank our coffee , a lorry arrived from the main group to pick up Macier whose blisters had burst , preventing him from walking . |
| 5 | I was nursing my mug of tea with both hands and taking short sips of the very hot liquid when a Commando arrived at the trench , stating that he had come to take Sid 's place on the Bren gun . |
| 6 | The next morning Bathsheba and her maid Liddy were dusting some books , when a visitor arrived at the front door . |
| 7 | A novelty arrived in the shape of a circus . |
| 8 | He must have wished he had been there , protected by the Pinkerton security guards employed here , earlier in the week when a messenger arrived at the course to serve a paternity suit . |
| 9 | I did n't have long to wait for my first recovery , because the next day a kid arrived at the house carrying the ghastly yellow-coated corpse of a starling . |
| 10 | Finally a man arrived from the dairy with their bags . |
| 11 | A form arrived with the instruction ‘ State exactly how loss occurred ’ , and I wrote ‘ Lord Haig 's dog Wasp and I were sitting together on a sofa when I discovered he was eating my sweater ’ with the gravest doubts that I would be believed . |
| 12 | A maid arrived at the 23-year-old model 's £500,000 Paris flat expecting to find her . |
| 13 | A maid arrived with the tea tray as soon as they sat down . |
| 14 | Some weeks later , a letter arrived at the little white house on the hill . |
| 15 | Two weeks later a letter arrived from the solicitors for the archdiocese providing the assurance that we sought . |
| 16 | He nodded and there followed an awkward silence where Julie and Nina must have become aware of the tension , for they glanced at each other at the same moment as a patient arrived in the centre . |