Example sentences of "[conj] he arrived at " in BNC.

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1 He made his first stage appearance as an actor at Wigan in The King of Terrors in 1900 , taking fourteen more years to make his way into the West End , where he arrived at the Empire Theatre in October 1914 in By Jingo If We Do .
2 He was cutting his journey fine and it was only by actually jogging from Friedrichstrasse , and feeling a fool for doing so , apart from almost breaking his neck by slipping on the icy pavement , that he arrived at his office before the ominous red line was drawn .
3 This required taking such steps as arranging the candidate 's schedule so as to ensure that he arrived at campaign stops in time for coverage on the nightly news .
4 I think it 's just that he arrived at the same conclusions .
5 It was thus that he arrived at his figure of six hundred and twenty thousand three hundred and thirty one pounds to the overall cost of future care in this case .
6 His father was told about the accident , and he arrived at the scene quickly enough to accompany Guy to hospital in the ambulance .
7 Yanto cycled on down the wharf , dodging the mooring ropes until he arrived at the berth of a small Norwegian timber boat called ‘ Marit , ’ registered in Oslo .
8 Baldwin did not get the King 's message until he arrived at the Travellers ' Club for lunch .
9 Like everyone else on holiday , he thought he had ‘ got away from it all ’ for a few days until he arrived at the famous White Horse Inn and was confronted by … fellow Fellow ( ! )
10 He did n't allow himself to think about Zoe until he arrived at the field entrance to the cottage .
11 Since he arrived at Number Ten , back in November 1990 , friends have been insisting that he is his own man , sometimes protesting too much in the process .
12 The manager has been straight down the line since he arrived at the club .
13 A fortnight after he arrived at Cuddesdon his father set out in the car from Cambridge to Stamford .
14 just before he arrived at the school Victor Gollancz left its staff , ejected because he tried to rouse boys ' minds by heady and daring political argument .
15 After leaving the church Dalgliesh went briefly back to the Yard to pick up his files on Theresa Nolan and Diana Travers and it was after midday before he arrived at 62 Campden Hill Square .
16 He saw the King to the gates and , coming back , heard the clangour of Elfswitha 's malevolence before he arrived at the door of their chamber .
17 Irene Jaffray said at Shrewsbury Crown Court that Eddie Browning made the request to her when he arrived at the house she shared with Kerry Evans in Inverurie , Aberdeenshire .
18 Therefore the little Ramsey , when he arrived at Repton in 1918 , met a headmaster destined to play a far more important part in his life than is the fate of most headmasters .
19 The 27-year-old from Madrid had started yesterday 's penultimate leg with a comfortable lead of 1min 36sec , but when he arrived at Newcastle last night it had been trimmed to 31sec .
20 Indeed , Sombro was not long back from the town when he arrived at North Point and he appeared tired and wan as he looked up with those big eyes he inherited from the Labrador side of his lineage .
21 When he arrived at the BBC as deputy Director-General in 1987 , John Birt even told the Financial Times that he found the place ‘ crudely , thoughtlessly anti-Establishment . ’
22 His early history was not revealed , but when he arrived at his new home he was hostile , aggressive , and even savage ; and people were forced to take to their own heels to save themselves from his !
23 When he arrived at the chapel , which sat about 3,000 , he was shocked to learn that ‘ a certain upper gallery holding 150 was ‘ the Coloured Gallery ’ .
24 NICK FALDO , world No 1 last week and with a highly creditable share of sixth place in the Freeport-McMoran Classic in New Orleans at the weekend , found his halo had slipped when he arrived at Augusta for the US Masters yesterday .
25 When he arrived at the meeting it was to be told that he was suspended and barred from his office .
26 When he arrived at Florey 's laboratory , Chain was delighted to see a Sohxlet apparatus in a cupboard , but caused consternation by saying ‘ I shall want six of those ’ .
27 When he arrived at Manly beach with a board he had carved out of sugar pine , many were those who said that riding a wave on a board was pure myth , a legend of the South Seas brought back by drunken sailors .
28 She did not see Gedge until six weeks later when he arrived at their door after a minor road accident .
29 When he arrived at Balliol College in 1792 , he had recently been expelled from Westminster School for publishing an essay condemning flogging , and his radical temperament developed rapidly during his Oxford years .
30 When he arrived at Swindon , he found the club in shambolic crisis and in a fraught confrontation with his board , stormed into the boardroom at the Club 's County Ground holding a mouldy , moth-eaten jockstrap .
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