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

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1 This required taking such steps as arranging the candidate 's schedule so as to ensure that he arrived at campaign stops in time for coverage on the nightly news .
2 Since he arrived at Number Ten , back in November 1990 , friends have been insisting that he is his own man , sometimes protesting too much in the process .
3 A fortnight after he arrived at Cuddesdon his father set out in the car from Cambridge to Stamford .
4 When he arrived at Swindon , he found the club in shambolic crisis and in a fraught confrontation with his board , stormed into the boardroom at the Club 's County Ground holding a mouldy , moth-eaten jockstrap .
5 Therefore the little Ramsey , when he arrived at Repton in 1918 , met a headmaster destined to play a far more important part in his life than is the fate of most headmasters .
6 Elena Pavlovna and her principal advisers , Kiselev and August von Haxthausen , were waiting for Alexander when he arrived at Kissingen .
7 It was nearly dark when he arrived at Stobs and set up his equipment in a previously selected position above a deep cutting on the Whitrope side of the station .
8 Still , when he arrived at Interlagos in São Paulo , a very fast and difficult track with a bumpy , deteriorating surface , Mario records that ‘ that Lotus was really frightening .
9 When he arrived at work that morning the result of their labours was waiting for him in a blue folder .
10 He opened the door for others — and Dessie Gorman broke it down when he arrived at Windsor Park last Christmas .
11 Indeed , Sombro was not long back from the town when he arrived at North Point and he appeared tired and wan as he looked up with those big eyes he inherited from the Labrador side of his lineage .
12 When he arrived at Florey 's laboratory , Chain was delighted to see a Sohxlet apparatus in a cupboard , but caused consternation by saying ‘ I shall want six of those ’ .
13 The 27-year-old from Madrid had started yesterday 's penultimate leg with a comfortable lead of 1min 36sec , but when he arrived at Newcastle last night it had been trimmed to 31sec .
14 When he arrived at Glasgow , there would be a car to pick him up , with a driver who knew the Scottish lowlands ‘ like the inside of his sporran ’ .
15 For Lanfranc , all the signs of life which he saw around him when he arrived at Canterbury were in one way or another manifestations of deviation from the norms of contemporary learning and religious observance , and his main aim in all his activities , whether at Bec or at Canterbury , was to strengthen the central normality of any church for which he was responsible .
16 When he arrived at Ken 's bedside , Jack felt a little deflated .
17 Derek 's first surprise when he arrived at Ockham House shortly before noon on Saturday was the cancellation of lunch .
18 When he arrived at Queen 's Island , many saw his task as mission impossible .
19 NICK FALDO , world No 1 last week and with a highly creditable share of sixth place in the Freeport-McMoran Classic in New Orleans at the weekend , found his halo had slipped when he arrived at Augusta for the US Masters yesterday .
20 Not least because Gary Ablett , another player who was a victim of Souness 's clearout when he arrived at Anfield , had exchanged passes to enable Beardsley to find the space to hit his decisive 25-yard shot .
21 When he arrived at Balliol College in 1792 , he had recently been expelled from Westminster School for publishing an essay condemning flogging , and his radical temperament developed rapidly during his Oxford years .
22 Hassan al-Turabi , 60 , widely regarded as the chief ideologist of the National Islamic Front ( NIF ) regime in Khartoum , was attacked as he arrived at Ottawa airport , Canada on May 25 .
23 Almost as soon as he arrived at Highbury Chapman persuaded his chairman that the team needed Charlie Buchan , the long-shining star of Sunderland who , at thirty-four , was seen as the man to inspire and lend experience to the faltering Arsenal attack .
24 A group of animal rights activists were waiting for Colin French as he arrived at court for sentencing .
25 Meanwhile a 24 year old man from Oxford was arrested later as he arrived at Oxford train station .
26 A 24 year old man was later arrested as he arrived at Oxford train station .
27 Police had to erect barriers to keep crowds back as Charles was warmly greeted by hundreds of wellwishers as he arrived at Dundee 's City Square .
28 The importance of the visit to Mr Yeltsin was emphasised as he arrived at Heathrow .
29 The couple , struggling to put marriage problems behind them , were pictured together only once — sitting on either side of Harry as he arrived at £7,500-a-year Ludgrove prep school in the back of a royal Jaguar .
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