Example sentences of "[noun sg] he arrived at " in BNC.

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1 ( In the seventeenth century Bishop Ussher calculated a date of 4004 B.C. for the creation of the universe , a figure he arrived at by adding up the ages of people in the Old Testament . )
2 Every boy had his own room from the day he arrived at Eton .
3 By the time he arrived at Amanda 's he was ready to drop .
4 But by the time he arrived at Jesus College , Cambridge , in 1791 , having left Christ 's Hospital with academic honour and real regret , his love had not become a sufficiently urgent reality for him to declare it .
5 Lanfranc 's silence about existing practices has sometimes been interpreted as a sign that the old order had fallen into complete neglect by the time he arrived at Canterbury .
6 By the time he arrived at school-leaving age , he had realized the value of education for his career and so enrolled on a day-release college course , eventually completing a Full Technological Certificate , whilst training to be a painter and decorator .
7 By the time he arrived at the meeting , the floor was slanting like a deck again .
8 Unless Andrew was lying , she knew from his own lips that the evidence had vanished by the time he arrived at rue Roland .
9 But he had been very helpful over the Puddephat business , she admitted to herself , and his moods were unpredictable — he might be on top of the world by the time he arrived at the cinema .
10 He was unconscious by the time he arrived at hospital in Sanford and remained in a coma until he died .
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