Example sentences of "arrived [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 : |
| 2 | That Wednesday a letter also arrived for the young Vicomte de Chagny . |
| 3 | A few minutes later , Andy Tyrie , Supreme Commander , UDA , arrived for the cancelled meeting . |
| 4 | I arrived for the American premiere and these ghosts made no sense at all . |
| 5 | He arrived as the black district of Watts , Los Angeles was exploding . |
| 6 | It arrived via the diplomatic bag on Saturday morning . |
| 7 | Beuno arrived with the lengthening shadows , bearing a dead pheasant . |
| 8 | When Penry arrived with the promised drink he also brought a hot-water bottle . |
| 9 | The waiter arrived with the red wine they had ordered , and Loretta took a decision . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He arrived from the deep country to attend university . |
| 12 | The Fat Controller and I were back inside the bolt when it arrived from the bonded warehouse at Felixstowe . |
| 13 | As we drank our coffee , a lorry arrived from the main group to pick up Macier whose blisters had burst , preventing him from walking . |
| 14 | And hardly had the congratulations died down when a bronze awards for safety performance arrived from the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents . |
| 15 | In 209 BC spoils arrived from the Greek city of Tarentum , in south-east Italy . |
| 16 | It was almost totally dark when they arrived in the stable yard and Catherine jumped involuntarily as something moved and rattled against the boards . |
| 17 | Lucy Cecil married a missionary , the Rev. John Hay , and accompanied him to Vishakhapatnam , where they arrived in the unhealthy monsoon season of 1844 . |
| 18 | When she arrived in the outer office , she sat at her desk , trembling , hoping Damian would not appear all day , but of course she was lying to herself again , appalled by her own desire . |
| 19 | ALTAN 'S LAST record , ‘ The Red Crow ’ , arrived in the final weeks of 1990 , a season when the huge stars normally hog all the attention and life is quiet in the Bush League of humble folkie bands . |
| 20 | The first thing that I noticed when I arrived in the dusty Managua airport , besides the tanks parked in the landing field , was an enormous poster of an unmistakable Daniel Ortega , clad in blue jeans and a cowboy shirt , holding an infant with an earring . |
| 21 | A few months later , a champion European bull arrived in the diplomatic bag . |
| 22 | THE US secretary of state , Warren Christopher , on his first foreign mission , arrived in the Middle East yesterday aiming to push Arabs and Israelis to revive their stalled peace talks . |
| 23 | When the American troops arrived in the Saudi desert last August they were mainly shod in 1960s canvas-topped ‘ jungle boots ’ , unchanged since Vietnam . |
| 24 | ‘ Patrick arrived in the early hours of the morning , exactly on the hospital due date . |
| 25 | One Friday morning a new young doctor arrived in the private room where Ken Lomax lay . |
| 26 | In 1975 Macedo , then in the employ of the government Indian service FUNAI ( he left in 1980 after constant clashes with the agency 's corrupt and deskbound chiefs ) , arrived in the remote Jurua valley , near the foothills of the Andes and Acre 's western frontier with Peru . |
| 27 | That the advertisement had been in a church magazine was , for my grandfather , sufficient guarantee of respectability , but when the boys arrived in the great city even their inexperience could not hide from them the fact that the respectable lodging was nothing more nor less than a brothel . |
| 28 | By the time they finally arrived in the deserted car park behind the arcade she was trembling from head to foot , racked by every emotion from fear to rage . |
| 29 | Thus , safe and composed , we arrived in the very heart of Derbyshire 's beautiful and historic Peak District , looking forward to our three day stay and in plenty of time for dinner . |
| 30 | Thus , safe and composed , we arrived in the very heart of Derbyshire 's beautiful and historic Peak District , looking forward to our three day stay and in plenty of time for dinner . |