Example sentences of "by the [noun] [pron] arrive " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may be , then , that the idea of the circular tombs was brought in by the immigrants who arrived in Crete from Anatolia at the beginning of the bronze age . |
| 2 | There are a couple of false summits on Schiehallion , and by the time we arrived at the first , the beginnings of a blizzard were forming . |
| 3 | After the race they seemed to be coming up a little more , and by the time we arrived back in Britain I was covered in them . |
| 4 | By the time we arrived at the sea , those of us who did not know that stretch of coastline were completely removed from any sense of place or direction . |
| 5 | We were in a mild state of shock by the time we arrived at the bottom . |
| 6 | The porters were excellent and had the luggage in our rooms by the time we arrived — always the sign of a good hotel ! |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | PP : Initially we had a prologue in which Peter Grimes 's father appeared on his death-bed , in which he solemnly cursed his son ; but it became apparent fairly soon that this was not a very good idea and the prologue was reshaped by the time we arrived back in England . |
| 9 | By the time we arrive the house is usually wreaked , the kids are in a terrible state , and the wife 's been beaten up , and the father 's lying there stoned , probably taking half-a-dozen peelers to get him out of the house . |
| 10 | By the time we arrive on tip-toe to the spot , whatever it was has either gone or revealed itself to be a log . |
| 11 | By the time we arrive at the hotel the Inspirals are already soundchecking for tonight 's gig and the ground war has begun . |
| 12 | ‘ The gates of the city will be closed by the time we arrive , and wo n't be opened until morning . |
| 13 | One of the first houses in the goldfields was built to welcome them and the two children ; the roof was not on by the time they arrived but many miners joined in helping to complete it , the sight of two young Englishwoman being a delightful rarity . |
| 14 | By the time they arrived in Budapest to play a Hungarian select , the Magpies had lost interest and were beaten 4–1 in what by all accounts was more like a pitched battle than a football match . |
| 15 | There were many other primitives to come but by the time they arrived I knew it was just an attempt to revive attention . |
| 16 | Further along the village another house used to be the ‘ cookhouse ’ and game room for them — the meals must have been cold by the time they arrived at the table of Londesborough Lodge ! |
| 17 | By the time they arrived Davidson , 38 , had gone to his local pub at Ewhurst , Surrey . |
| 18 | Festivities at Laura 's house were already well underway by the time they arrived there . |
| 19 | Hedgehogs are not the speediest creatures afoot so , by the time they arrived , most of the others were already there . |
| 20 | Tony rang Kate 's parents to tell them to come round ( they were going to look after 2½-year-old William ) and , by the time they arrived , Kate had just about finished her bath . |
| 21 | When this attack came , Jack called an ambulance , but by the time they arrived Dad had come round and was violently opposed to going into hospital . |
| 22 | The journey home was slow because of the laden trailer being hauled behind them , but by the time they arrived she had herself under control . |
| 23 | By the time they arrived the party was in full swing and all they could do was watch . |
| 24 | By the time they arrive at Maidstone , there fore , most have settled into the routines imposed by a long sentence of imprisonment and most do at least feel that some progress through the system is being achieved . |
| 25 | By the time it arrived , and the plans were clearly far more than the government could afford , winning the election took priority over admitting to economic reality . |
| 26 | Although the material was systematically arranged as it was collected , the system changed very significantly at least three times , and by the time it arrived at the Institute in Nottingham , any order there had been in the files of material was lost . |
| 27 | Before I 'd joined they 'd called themselves Strand — after the Roxy Music song ‘ Do The Strand — and The Swankers but both these names were well past their sell-by date by the time I arrived . |
| 28 | By the time I arrived at B.P. there was need for many more of those whom Peter Calvocoressi calls the Indians , and the net had been cast wider to trawl the less élite from universities other than Oxford and Cambridge . |
| 29 | Ron normally allows his athletes two weeks off , so by the time I arrived back at West London Stadium they were well into winter training . |
| 30 | My paternal grandfather started his working life as a water carrier — selling water house to house ; by the time I arrived my father 's family had ‘ made it ’ . |