Example sentences of "i [verb] arrive " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd arrived at the Greenwood Theatre too late to hear Jonathan Ross get off his intro-line about Fashanu ‘ scoring ’ at the weekend . |
| 2 | I tried to muster the arguments I 'd arrived at with Brian nearly four years earlier , in the autumn of 1986 , after having heard Jacobsen making a tape . |
| 3 | Naturally , I 'd found that soon after I 'd arrived . |
| 4 | I remember arriving at public school , and we were ushered into the housemaster 's study , and he said , ‘ Well , sex is a thorny subject . |
| 5 | I remember arriving in my father 's Pontiac at clubs just like this , sweeping ( not always silently ; the car was old ) down to the front door to be deposited and greeted , to be called ‘ sir ’ by elderly black men . |
| 6 | As I made my way home and tried to comprehend the logic of taking another batsman on board , I kept arriving at the same conclusion — that I 'd be better off out of it . |
| 7 | I remembered arriving in Cross the previous day on the school bus noticing the universal teatime re-fuelling of hundreds of fires and stores ; fresh puffing chimneys as far as the eye could see . |
| 8 | Thank you for the notes and letters that were waiting for me when I did arrive home . |
| 9 | Filden I did arrive alongside the jetty at Margate to be met by our Investigation officers , with Venturous close behind to cut off her retreat . |
| 10 | I had arrived at the bus stop two hours early . |
| 11 | So after a fortnight in hospital , minus the kidney I had arrived with , Thursday 's child went home . |
| 12 | I rang to say I had arrived and a car came from Fulmer to meet me . |
| 13 | I had arrived up at the office one morning to relieve Freda from night duty , and found her sitting up there looking pleased with herself and Jim looking solemn . |
| 14 | Now everyone knew that I had arrived , knew that Madrid had been no fluke . |
| 15 | ‘ Have you a small bowl of harees for Um Yusef ? ’ he asked , after explaining when and how I had arrived , that he , and his family , and I and all the household were quite well . |
| 16 | Fortunately , even though it was just after 3am on Friday morning , Len was there to meet me and the first hurdle was over , I had arrived . |
| 17 | ‘ This looks like a good job , ’ I though , unaware that I had arrived in the middle of Danny Baker 's leaving party . |
| 18 | I had arrived at Ullapool by bus in mid-afternoon , determined to satisfy an ambition to make a first visit to Lochinver . |
| 19 | I had arrived for my first meeting with the North Downs Steam Railway which is managed by a friendly group of enthusiasts who are not prepared to be put off by a drop of rain , even if it was one of the heaviest storms of the summer . |
| 20 | I knew I had arrived in Rugby League the day I walked into a bar in the Australian snowfields and a twelve-year-old boy came up to ask me , ‘ Why did you pick Souths to beat Balmain ? ’ |
| 21 | I had arrived two days too late . |
| 22 | It was in the summer , some six months after I had arrived in Paris , that I determined to earn a little money . |
| 23 | His name was Reldresal , and he had helped me many times since I had arrived in Lilliput . |
| 24 | But the ship in which I had arrived in Brobdingnag was the first that had ever come near the coast . |
| 25 | And so I walked to Whitcross , the lonely crossroads on the moor , where I had arrived a year ago with no money or luggage . |
| 26 | The first time I came across him I had arrived in the Azores with a blown-out mainsail , flat batteries and was in need of cooking gas . |
| 27 | Clearly I had arrived between downpours of the searing acid rain , while none of the local wildlife had come looking for snack in my vicinity . |
| 28 | I was a man of substance now , I had arrived . |
| 29 | Telephone call took twenty minutes and had to explain how I had arrived at such a decision . |
| 30 | I remember my excitement when I had arrived there for the first time from St Aubyn 's . |