Example sentences of "arrived in the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The first 180 of 300 Iraqi Kurdish refugees living in Turkey who were to be accepted by France arrived in the latter country on Aug. 1 , 1989 .
2 It was almost totally dark when they arrived in the stable yard and Catherine jumped involuntarily as something moved and rattled against the boards .
3 Lucy Cecil married a missionary , the Rev. John Hay , and accompanied him to Vishakhapatnam , where they arrived in the unhealthy monsoon season of 1844 .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 A few months later , a champion European bull arrived in the diplomatic bag .
8 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 .
9 When the American troops arrived in the Saudi desert last August they were mainly shod in 1960s canvas-topped ‘ jungle boots ’ , unchanged since Vietnam .
10 Right on cue a Brazilian goal arrived in the 54th minute and was largely the result of a surging run on the right and inspired cross from Jorginho , Careca rising to meet it with a firm header down past Van Breukelen .
11 Goal number two arrived in the 29th minute .
12 ‘ Patrick arrived in the early hours of the morning , exactly on the hospital due date .
13 But the equaliser was always on offer and arrived in the 73rd minute .
14 One Friday morning a new young doctor arrived in the private room where Ken Lomax lay .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 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 .
20 She found herself searching back to her youth for reasons to explain the blind and selfish obsessions which had taken hold of her since they arrived in the French tropics and she wondered if her father 's ruin and death by his own hand in the Louisiana cotton slump of 1989 , when she was only two years old , was the root cause .
21 In December 1990 a collection of locomotive parts arrived in the old goods yard at Swanage .
22 Paul Newman , older , of course , and Steve McQueen arrived in the big time , too .
23 The American team arrived in the British Isles on September 19 following a three hour flight on a British Airways Concorde specially chartered by Wroe Burton Bennett on behalf of the P.G.A .
24 THE ROYAL NAVY frigate HMS Alacrity arrived in the Colombian port of Cartagena yesterday , in the first stage of a British aid effort to combat drugs trafficking in Colombia .
25 Allowed safe air passage , he arrived in the Colombian capital , Bogotá , on June 3 .
26 The two teams arrived in the northern capital from Beijing where they had been competing in the Asian Games .
27 The 68-metre former oceanographic vessel was accorded a rousing welcome as it arrived in the northern Taiwan port of Keelung on May 13 to take on provisions and broadcasting equipment .
28 A six-member advance team from the Organization of American States ( OAS ) arrived in the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince on Sept. 17 .
29 The fortress at Silves has a courtyard that was lined and pinned and partly excavated by the time we arrived in the pouring rain to look at it .
30 As soon as we arrived in the red room , I became quiet again , and the two servants both started scolding me .
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