Example sentences of "he arrived at " in BNC.

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1 By the time he arrived at Amanda 's he was ready to drop .
2 He arrived at the conference hall after having a Campaign Group leaflet thrust into his hand .
3 Irene Jaffray said at Shrewsbury Crown Court that Eddie Browning made the request to her when he arrived at the house she shared with Kerry Evans in Inverurie , Aberdeenshire .
4 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 .
5 just before he arrived at the school Victor Gollancz left its staff , ejected because he tried to rouse boys ' minds by heady and daring political argument .
6 A fortnight after he arrived at Cuddesdon his father set out in the car from Cambridge to Stamford .
7 He arrived at this destination at the early age of 35 .
8 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 .
9 He was cutting his journey fine and it was only by actually jogging from Friedrichstrasse , and feeling a fool for doing so , apart from almost breaking his neck by slipping on the icy pavement , that he arrived at his office before the ominous red line was drawn .
10 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 .
11 In April 1974 , seven months after the coup which brought Pinochet to power , he arrived at the Air Force base of Colina on the outskirts of Santiago to begin his two years of military service .
12 He arrived at Edinburgh 's Blair Street station early yesterday and told police he wanted to stay in Britain .
13 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 .
14 He arrived at his drive , discussed the second shot , decided on a club and then , before taking it out of the bag , held out his hands in front of his caddie and said : ‘ Look , not a tremor . ’
15 He arrived at a decision , threw the cigarette away , and turned towards a small depressing row of agricultural cottages .
16 He arrived at his desk , squinted at the offering tucked into his blotter and sat down to read it properly : a short , sanctimonious newspaper piece on the temptation and pressures on the successful young , Tristram Wilson being mentioned , with many a crocodile tear , as one of the recent casualties .
17 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 .
18 When he arrived at the BBC as deputy Director-General in 1987 , John Birt even told the Financial Times that he found the place ‘ crudely , thoughtlessly anti-Establishment . ’
19 His early history was not revealed , but when he arrived at his new home he was hostile , aggressive , and even savage ; and people were forced to take to their own heels to save themselves from his !
20 When he arrived at the chapel , which sat about 3,000 , he was shocked to learn that ‘ a certain upper gallery holding 150 was ‘ the Coloured Gallery ’ .
21 He arrived at night to find the strand ‘ covered in bodies ’ charred beyond recognition , but identifiable as wearing British uniforms .
22 Twelve months ago , when he arrived at the Courtyard Marriott on the night of his triumph , following the small dinner the club always gives the new champion , he was happy with a can or two of beer while everyone else drank champagne .
23 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 .
24 It was an improvement on last week when he arrived at the place , though .
25 He arrived at the hospital at seven forty and reported to the chief surgeon .
26 He had left at 5.30 and heard Philip Drew 's voice as he arrived at the theatre at 6.00 .
27 He arrived at Arenenberg on 4 August to find that Hortense , suffering from a cancer , was in fact dying , although she lingered until 9 October .
28 She suggested that I speak to a man who had lived nearby in 1948 , and after some hours he arrived at the house , a middle-aged Israeli with a lined face and very bloodshot eyes .
29 He arrived at his final year at high school in good fettle and with enough good grades to get to university if he wanted .
30 When he arrived at the meeting it was to be told that he was suspended and barred from his office .
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