Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] arrive at [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Next evening I arrived at the cottage with the rucksack half-full of tinned food , bully beef , steak and kidney and , of course , the tinned plum duff ; chocolate ( the hard stuff from the 48-hour ration pack , but still very tasty ) ; tobacco and some cigarettes — in all , quite a collection of foodstuffs .
2 On Monday we arrived at the factory with placards we had made demanding a union .
3 Nicol seemed the sharper of the pair when the Scots trained on a back pitch at the Government Stadium last night , rain falling the moment they arrived at the field .
4 The occasional crank letter was invariably weeded out the moment it arrived at the sorting office at the Royal Family 's own Post Office within Buckingham Palace .
5 Navigating along dry forest roads we arrived at the base of Mount Robert .
6 After less than half a mile you arrive at the Whealt .
7 Stirling had five jeeps with him , and as dawn broke the following day they arrived at the road .
8 On the morning of Sunday 27 August they arrived at the Friedrichstrasse Station in the heart of the German capital .
9 To the south-east of Stalham you arrive at the Hickling Broad Nature Reserve — an important site for breeding and over-wintering birds .
10 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 .
11 After a few minutes ' walk I arrived at the edge of the wooded area ; in front of me was about two hundred yards of grass , rising to the high ground covered by thick gorse and ferns .
12 During one of his European tours he arrived at a prison in the Savoy where a full-scale riot was in progress and two warders had already been killed .
13 So back we got into the car and ultimately by some good fortune we arrived at the Consulate .
14 Well er by the time I arrived at the doorway to the room erm a male person was lying on the floor , spreadeagled er and my job would have been to cover him with the shot gun er to enable P C to go forward and handcuff the chap .
15 By the time we arrive at the hotel the Inspirals are already soundchecking for tonight 's gig and the ground war has begun .
16 By the time we arrived at the sea , those of us who did not know that stretch of coastline were completely removed from any sense of place or direction .
17 We were in a mild state of shock by the time we arrived at the bottom .
18 Further along the village another house used to be the ‘ cookhouse ’ and game room for them — the meals must have been cold by the time they arrived at the table of Londesborough Lodge !
19 Each time they arrive at a pose , Colas somehow steals the expected kiss or holds Lise in the proper climax as Alain strikes what he believes to be the proper pose .
20 Although the material was systematically arranged as it was collected , the system changed very significantly at least three times , and by the time it arrived at the Institute in Nottingham , any order there had been in the files of material was lost .
21 Perhaps the contributor to the " Glasgow Geography " in 1825 writing of the Scottish peasant was correct when he said , " By the time he has reached the age of ten years , he has by heart , as it is called , the whole Catechism , the metrical version of the Psalms , and is pretty well versed in the Bible … and by the time he arrives at the years of maturity , to the " big ha' Bible once his father 's pride , and the Westminster Confession of Faith , he has added Pool , Henry 's Commentary , Gillespie 's Aaron 's Rod Blossoming , the Faithful Contendings of the Church of Scotland , Boston 's Fourfold State , and if he can afford them the works of Jonathan Edwards . "
22 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 .
23 By the time he arrived at the meeting , the floor was slanting like a deck again .
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