Example sentences of "[vb past] arrive at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first couple of times she 'd arrived at a rendezvous and then lost her nerve , backing out before anyone could approach her ; but then she 'd tried getting herself a little drunk beforehand , and from then on the doors were flung open and she was away . |
| 2 | Boy thought that this had been in some ways the perfect night , the best that he had ever had since he 'd arrived at The Bar . |
| 3 | We 'd arrived at the zoo . |
| 4 | I 'd arrived at the Greenwood Theatre too late to hear Jonathan Ross get off his intro-line about Fashanu ‘ scoring ’ at the weekend . |
| 5 | Of course there was the occasional hiccup , such as when they 'd arrived at the nightclub to see a particularly gorgeous girl whom the Press had linked with Ace in the past . |
| 6 | He 'd fucking had his dinner at six o'clock , I do n't even know what I rang the club later , I tell you like , twenty past he 'd arrived at the club and he was early , where 'd you go ? |
| 7 | There were so many people in the room that you could not pass a needle between them , so how it was that the Gypsy Kings , carrying large musical instruments and followed by a television crew , came to arrive at the dinner table unmaimed , must remain a mystery for ever . |
| 8 | No doubt their slowness , coupled with the initial inertia of the judges , meant that the exhibition had to remain intact , seriously hampering preparations for the exhibition of models for the Wellington monument which began to arrive at the hall the day after the Government Offices exhibition closed . |
| 9 | It was thus a new phenomenon when , during the winter and early spring of 1976 , outspoken resolutions on law and order began to arrive at the Presbyterian central office in Belfast from congregations and presbyteries across the country . |
| 10 | For Green , the proposal of the Cambridge Board had major implications at national level and he sought to arrive at a local compromise to prevent a more widespread set of problems for the WEA . |
| 11 | In order to avoid what Cantalupo termed a situation of " paralysis " in Spain , Italian diplomacy sought to arrive at a political solution in the Basque Country . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I wonder if he left two minutes in hand , like me , to get from the barrier to a compartment level with the Greenwich exit , or three , or five , or whether he liked to arrive at the very last moment and leave a slight uncertainty in the air . |
| 14 | They had arrived at a first floor landing . |
| 15 | For by now we had arrived at a big army hut by the side of the road . |
| 16 | It had not been shown that the Special Commissioner had misdirected himself or that he had erred in law or that he had arrived at a wholly insupportable conclusion . |
| 17 | Lamenting ‘ the feeling of morbid sympathy with criminals which at the present moment undoubtedly exists ’ , The Times ( 18 November 1856 ) had arrived at a sorry conclusion : ‘ Philanthropy , like crinoline , has become the fashion . ’ |
| 18 | We had driven up a muddy track for ten miles and had arrived at a completely ruined farmhouse with no windows or doors , set into the slope of a mountain , looking over a marshy plain . |
| 19 | She wanted to say it was only a joke , about boiling oil , but they had arrived at a building with several steps leading up and told to get into single file so that their names could be checked at the door . |
| 20 | An authoritative Soviet study on the diplomacy of the developing states , prefaced by Firyubin a couple of years before his ASEAN tour , had arrived at a definition of neutralisation on the basis of declarations by the statesmen of Southeast Asia . |
| 21 | Rincewind did so , and watched the nervous Broadman , who had arrived at a gallop from some back room , lead the way up the wooden steps behind the bar . |
| 22 | They had arrived at a point opposite one corner of the house , but once they left the trees there was no more cover until they reached the broad belt of shrubbery which ran parallel to the side of the house . |
| 23 | Gould found he ‘ had arrived at a good time , the birds having just commenced breeding ’ , and was immediately off to resume his researches with Natty and Jemmy in the cedar brushes of the Liverpool Range and on the nearby stretches of the Dart Brook . |
| 24 | It was the first time the monarch had ever used a Thames passenger ferry — and one of the few occasions when she had arrived at an official engagement by public transport in the UK . |
| 25 | I had arrived at the bus stop two hours early . |
| 26 | By early Tuesday afternoon , however , pro-Noriega forces had arrived at the military command headquarters , where General Noriega was apparently being held , and the rebels surrendered . |
| 27 | A host of angry letters from women over thirty who thought themselves beautiful had arrived at the office . |
| 28 | Indeed , when the party had arrived at the bleak airport in Tehran in the middle of Ramadan , hoping to find a government delegation of equal weight , nobody was there to meet them . |
| 29 | She spoke to reporters from a ‘ secret location ’ at the weekend , describing how Mrs Mandela had arrived at the house early in the morning . |
| 30 | I had a distinct impression that many of the organisers had had professional theatre experience and that , naturally , their point of view was coloured by this , while the teachers had arrived at the point of realising the potential of drama as a tool of education . |