Example sentences of "[pers pn] arrived at " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I arrived at the station , I took the next train back to London . |
| 2 | When I arrived at the counter I asked for Katrina . |
| 3 | The new shithouse clerk , a small , wiry Liverpudlian , was taking his new appointment very seriously when I arrived at his canvasstructured place of work . |
| 4 | Next evening I arrived at the cottage with the rucksack half-full of tinned food , bully beef , steak and kidney and , of course , the tinned plum duff ; chocolate ( the hard stuff from the 48-hour ration pack , but still very tasty ) ; tobacco and some cigarettes — in all , quite a collection of foodstuffs . |
| 5 | After a few minutes ' walk I arrived at the edge of the wooded area ; in front of me was about two hundred yards of grass , rising to the high ground covered by thick gorse and ferns . |
| 6 | ‘ When I arrived at the river I was n't at all sure I was doing the right thing because the water temperature was 4.1 degrees Centigrade and the air temperature was 1.8 degrees , ’ said Les . |
| 7 | The first Arctic fox I had ever seen watched me as I arrived at Gullfoss late at night , then turned and headed off with its huge tail laid out behind it . |
| 8 | I arrived at Skaftafell to find several groups of campers , all wild-eyed outdoor types , I suppose not unlike me . |
| 9 | In fact , I arrived at a look I liked fifteen years ago and I have hardly changed it since then . |
| 10 | I arrived at 10.30 and drove to 31 St Aldate 's where I found an enormous orgy in progress . |
| 11 | Eventually I arrived at Number 10 about an hour late . |
| 12 | Finally I arrived at Ballinasloe , to find the station a long way from the town . |
| 13 | When I arrived at the rehearsal the leader of the orchestra said , ‘ Mr von Karajan , I am sorry but we can not begin ; the singers are not here . ’ |
| 14 | When I arrived at the Big House , I was asked to stay to lunch . |
| 15 | When I arrived at the course , there they were in a rack being watched over by a young man , who , in turn , placed them in a buggy . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | I arrived at the station in good time and chained my travel-bag to the luggage rack . |
| 18 | I arrived at the Cheshire Cheese early deliberately — to spy out the land … ’ |
| 19 | Eventually , after midnight , I arrived at Radnor Walk . |
| 20 | When I arrived at St Andrews everybody was standing around , and then Arnold comes out . |
| 21 | When I first went to Dent , before the war , I arrived at dusk , hungry and footsore after walking all day . |
| 22 | Callahan and I arrived at twelve , Pottz at one . |
| 23 | So it was that just after 8.15 on the morning of Monday , May 6th , 1929 I arrived at the Times-Herald editorial offices and found the place locked up tight . |
| 24 | As for myself , I arrived at the first weekend in a state of high evangelism that must have bored everyone I met . |
| 25 | Pinned above Beth 's bed , next to the card proclaiming her to be a spiritualist , was a photograph of a male dancer from the newly formed Royal Ballet , and I came in one day soon after I arrived at Huntingdon to find a knot of giggling girls peering up at this dancer , who was poised on one foot , wearing an agonised expression and very tight tights . |
| 26 | It was October when I arrived at Binbrook , and as winter approached the air became bitingly cold . |
| 27 | When I arrived at the Demob Centre , I sat around in a bare hall for what seemed like a couple of hours , with two or three hundred other Waafs , and we stared at each other without interest . |
| 28 | Then suddenly , every morning when I arrived at school two kids would stand by the gate and shout out , ‘ Nigger , nigger , pull your trigger ! |
| 29 | When I arrived at the Palace gates with my invitation card I was somewhat taken aback when two or three in the crowd around the railings recognized me and asked for autographs — in that place of all places ! |
| 30 | Having entered for the shot putt and having practised by throwing half bricks at our next-door neighbour 's cat ( which happily stayed out of range of the missiles whilst becoming increasingly terrified by my ever-improving grunts ) I arrived at school feeling pretty confident . |