Example sentences of "he arrive [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And yet to the world at large he claimed to have conducted a most detailed investigation into the whole matter , sufficient to enable him to arrive at an informed judgement that British policy remained correct . |
| 2 | In calculating the time when a review is due , the starting point is : ( a ) where a person is arrested outside the police station ( i ) the time he arrives at the relevant station ; or ( ii ) the time 24 hours after the time of his arrest , whichever is the earlier ; ( b ) where a person attends the police station voluntarily and is subsequently arrested there the time of arrest ; ( c ) where a person is arrested outside England and Wales : ( i ) the time he arrives at the first station to which he is taken in the police area in which the offence for which he has been arrested is being investigated ; or ( ii ) 24 hours after the time of his entry into the country whichever is the earlier ; ( d ) where a person is arrested in another part of the country and has to be taken to the police area where the offence is being investigated for questioning — the time at which he arrived at the first police station in the police area in question . |
| 3 | In calculating the time when a review is due , the starting point is : ( a ) where a person is arrested outside the police station ( i ) the time he arrives at the relevant station ; or ( ii ) the time 24 hours after the time of his arrest , whichever is the earlier ; ( b ) where a person attends the police station voluntarily and is subsequently arrested there the time of arrest ; ( c ) where a person is arrested outside England and Wales : ( i ) the time he arrives at the first station to which he is taken in the police area in which the offence for which he has been arrested is being investigated ; or ( ii ) 24 hours after the time of his entry into the country whichever is the earlier ; ( d ) where a person is arrested in another part of the country and has to be taken to the police area where the offence is being investigated for questioning — the time at which he arrived at the first police station in the police area in question . |
| 4 | After reading the signpost , the user moves off in the direction of his choice until he arrives at the next crossroads . |
| 5 | He arrived as the black district of Watts , Los Angeles was exploding . |
| 6 | He arrived on the 18th tee needing a par to get into a play-off and , with an extraordinary demonstration of the tension involved , jumped up and down half a dozen times as his tee shot headed inexorably for the bunker on the left . |
| 7 | One year he arrived with a young lady , then came back when she was his wife . |
| 8 | He arrived at the crowded town square near Bogota and was born shoulder high to climb up onto the back of a truck to make his campaign speech . |
| 9 | For example , he arrived at the contentious conclusion that the dramatic increase in recorded crime during the period of post-war economic growth in the United States had ruled out poverty and deprivation as being causes of crime . |
| 10 | When he arrived at the right house he checked the number carefully against his piece of paper . |
| 11 | By a different route , he arrived at the same conclusion of ‘ proportionality ’ as retribution required . |
| 12 | South African President F W de Klerk ducked out of the row when he arrived for a three-day visit to Britain . |
| 13 | Lech Walesa became the first Polish President to visit Israel when he arrived for a four-day visit on May 20 . |
| 14 | He arrived in a dark suit and a black shirt buttoned down over his dog collar and kept his hands folded so that nobody could see if he had on a ring at all , let alone one like a winegum . |
| 15 | He arrived in a top hat and morning coat , already a somewhat archaic form of working dress , and said to the waiting cameraman : ‘ Photograph me now , gentlemen , it may be the last time you will see me ’ . |
| 16 | He arrived in a violet twilight ; a sickle moon standing in a hoop of its own light , birds making dark arrows just above the wavetops . |
| 17 | Allowed safe air passage , he arrived in the Colombian capital , Bogotá , on June 3 . |
| 18 | He was not an easy guest ; he arrived in an obvious abstraction of wretchedness and his grandmother , being aware of his growing tendency to argue with the family 's general insistence that out-door exercise was good for whatever ailed one , at first decided to leave him alone to recover . |
| 19 | He arrived in an old banger , it was a big farm you know , 500 acre farm , arable and sheep mostly , and it was a long long way right up to this farm , half way up the hill he was going , ’ Gee up then , gee up then . ’ |
| 20 | He arrived from the deep country to attend university . |