Example sentences of "arrived at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A MAN accused of killing Marie Wilks arrived at a friend 's house with a thick smudge of blood on his car the day after she disappeared , the M50 murder trial was told yesterday . |
| 2 | By way of Nero and his brief successor Galba ( who happened to be 73 , which is Mr Healey 's present age ) , we arrived at a picture , on page 483 , of Mr Healey dressed as Father Christmas , which I suggested was deeply melancholy . |
| 3 | Unable to persuade other firms to commit to such a specific amount , he arrived at a compromise by forming the Per Cent Club , which has 120 corporate members giving not less than a half per cent of their annual UK pre-tax income to the community . |
| 4 | We finally arrived at a figure of two hundred and fifty pounds and he was perfectly agreeable . ’ |
| 5 | In fact , I arrived at a look I liked fifteen years ago and I have hardly changed it since then . |
| 6 | He arrived at a decision , threw the cigarette away , and turned towards a small depressing row of agricultural cottages . |
| 7 | Mr Souness , who arrived at a Manchester hospital offering the comment : ‘ I ca n't say I 'm looking forward to it but it is essential so it has to be done , ’ broke the news to his players on the way back from Sunday 's semi-final which Liverpool rescued late in extra time through Ronnie Whelan . |
| 8 | They followed the stretcher until they arrived at a large tent which had a hastily painted sign slung across its front . |
| 9 | With a new rabbit and a short-haired piebald guinea pig in a box , Victoria arrived at a once-grand Queen Anne house in Wiltshire that was now a school devoted to raising the daughters of the gentry . |
| 10 | Eventually , we arrived at a small , damp valley , peat and heather-filled , where insects hummed in the still air . |
| 11 | To confuse the issue even more , at least from Catt 's point of view , her letter from Gedge , Solowka and Gregory arrived at a time when she thought that her role in the group was about to become more prominent . |
| 12 | In the 1960s a man with an American accent arrived at a coastal resort in South Wales and announced that he represented an American corporation which wished to purchase a leisure and amusement arcade in the town . |
| 13 | He arrived at a town surrounded by icebergs and with no road out . |
| 14 | Then , being prevented from moving into other grazing areas by groups which had developed similar ideas of ownership , and realizing that there were limits to the carrying capacity of the land , they would sell off surplus cattle until they arrived at a perfect balance between the land and the stock residing upon it . |
| 15 | In 1984 , radio astronomers from Columbia University identified electro-magnetic vortices in our Milky Way and arrived at a similar conclusion to the theories of Alfven and Perratt . |
| 16 | We arrived at a Roman Catholic church where kind ladies gave us food and blankets , and soon we were all cosily asleep on the hard church floor . |
| 17 | Individuals in that generation of whom we know most seem to have grappled uncertainly with how to deal with their growing understanding of and revulsion from the slave trade ; sometimes it was almost to their own surprise that they arrived at a commitment sufficiently deep to devote a major portion of their time and energies to the cause . |
| 18 | During one of his European tours he arrived at a prison in the Savoy where a full-scale riot was in progress and two warders had already been killed . |
| 19 | So off I went … and arrived at a country house with a large garden . |
| 20 | The second in line to the throne was still known officially as ‘ Baby Wales ’ and it took the couple several days of discussion before they arrived at a name . |
| 21 | And so , drawing together the threads of this obsessive preoccupation with the civility of ‘ Old England ’ which had been ripped apart by a new strain of hot-blooded and un-English violence , the Old Thunderer arrived at a truly horrific conclusion : ‘ Our streets are actually not as safe as they were in the days of our grandfathers . |
| 22 | A woman in the Northeast involved in a campaign to improve colliery houses arrived at a lodge meeting with material on the houses for the members . |
| 23 | Negotiations in Renville arrived at a precarious agreement , signed on 17 January 1948 , by which the Van Mook Line was accepted , in return for virtually nothing . |
| 24 | It was not the existence of the risk which mattered , so much as ( a ) the degree to which it enhanced the prejudice already created by the great publicity which all these matters had attracted in Hong Kong during the preceding years , and ( b ) the degree to which this additional risk could be neutralised by the trial judge when the B.M.F.L. prosecution eventually arrived at a hearing : see Reg. v. Kray ( 1969 ) 53 Cr.App.R. 412 . |
| 25 | That said , however , the decisive reason why we now think it right to determine this application on its substantive merits is that we have all three of us arrived at a very clear conclusion upon the case and , moreover , a conclusion reached with particular regard to the very special facts of the case . |
| 26 | We stayed for three days , and then we took the night boat to Belgium , and arrived at a tall , fine school building in the centre of Brussels . |
| 27 | The case trotted on at something slightly better than the conventional pace of litigation in this country and arrived at a point where each side had to ‘ discover ’ to the other all relevant documents relating to the matter . |
| 28 | He finally arrived at a compromise with her , which was that he could have three independent , non-civil servant , advisers . |
| 29 | The wind and rain beat down on me , and I fell down several times , but finally I arrived at a long , low house , standing rather isolated in the middle of the moor . |
| 30 | They arrived at a very large old house . |