Example sentences of "arrive at the [adj] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In an interview with La Stampa yesterday , Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA chief Carlo De Benedetti condemned the pervasive system of political corruption , which he says obligated Olivetti to pay bribes or lose contracts , as ‘ having reduced Italy to a state worse than the Third World ’ : he says that at the last shareholders meeting earlier this year , he had to deny any bribery because he could n't preview information to the shareholders that was intended for the legal authorities ; he says that facing the judges , he felt liberated from a weight — ‘ then I felt a sense of justice — it pleased me to be there , ’ noting that when the company decided that the demands of the postal service for slush funds became too extreme and Olivetti stopped paying , ‘ we did n't sell another machine to the Post — we had arrived at the absurd point where , if we did n't pay , we did n't work and the moment we quit paying , we did n't work any more ’ . |
| 2 | The verderers had arrived at the tumbled stones soon after the moon rose . |
| 3 | He had arrived at the precise moment when Elizabeth had begun to sob and then desolately to weep , and all Lydia 's skills , social , sexual and manipulative , had abruptly deserted her . |
| 4 | He had arrived at the precise moment when another twist in the plot of a murder weekend was unravelling itself . |
| 5 | How does one arrive at the required covariance then ? |
| 6 | Then he snaked back through the house in silence , arriving at the front door just a couple of seconds ahead of her . |