Example sentences of "arrived at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Arrived at the station , the daily travellers , dressed to a man in dark suits , white , stiff-collared shirts , and bowler or trilby hats , with their tightly furled umbrellas held as elegantly as they were able , would quickly assemble in their respective and habitual positions along the platform , for they knew exactly where ‘ their ’ compartment would come to rest . |
| 2 | Only two of the party that had arrived at The Randolph , some fifty hours earlier , were no longer in their original seats — the seats immediately behind Mrs Roscoe . |
| 3 | Roland Hardy , prosecuting , said 24-year-old Miss Chui , from Singapore , had arrived at the university the previous month and on the day of the accident was walking home with fellow student Cedric Xavier . |
| 4 | A note had arrived at the surgery from the lady in Chester saying that after careful study of the X-rays she thought that Mr Spottiswoode 's pain might be connected with a chest problem . |
| 5 | What would have happened had I not arrived at the door at precisely that juncture , I can not imagine . |
| 6 | Here , a family group has just arrived at the giraffe 's enclosure on a day out at the zoo ( 1 ) . |
| 7 | Of course there was the occasional hiccup , such as when they 'd arrived at the nightclub to see a particularly gorgeous girl whom the Press had linked with Ace in the past . |
| 8 | at a time after the guest has arrived at the hotel , either the property in question was offered for deposit as aforesaid and the proprietor or his servant refused to receive it , or the guest or some other guest acting on his behalf wished so to offer the property in question but , through the default of the proprietor or a servant of his , was unable to do so . |
| 9 | Here they were , objects of suspicion to be interrogated by the police , and not even noticed by the one or two newspaper men who had arrived at the hotel . |
| 10 | One witness claimed a shotgun was brandished before police arrived at the scene . |
| 11 | One witness claimed a shotgun had been brandished before police arrived at the scene . |
| 12 | They had arrived at the wharf , which was exceedingly ill-lit . |
| 13 | For had it not been raining so hard on that Tuesday evening I would have arrived at the Philharmonia Hall in good time . |
| 14 | Mrs Abigail , similarly affected , believed that what she 'd been dreading all day had now come about : the parents of some child had arrived at the bungalow . |
| 15 | She had known as soon as they had arrived at the lodge that her heart had made the right decision , even though it felt irresponsible and utterly childish to be spending a summer like this , at her age , and after all the work she had done to put the initials MD after her name . |
| 16 | When they 'd first arrived at the Base , she had quite liked the old Administrator , but since Paula 's death he 'd changed . |
| 17 | Envoys of Offa , however , had arrived at the court of Charlemagne affirming that this rumour was the work of men who were enemies of both Charlemagne and Offa , and had gone on their way to Rome , accompanied by Frankish envoys , to reiterate Offa 's denial of a plot against Hadrian before the pope himself . |
| 18 | At the end of the first week Allaf was particularly critical of the Israeli delegation 's tactics , saying that the Israeli delegation had arrived at the talks with a " premeditated determination not to allow any progress " . |
| 19 | Fowler had arrived at the small-holding around lunchtime . |
| 20 | Remember , the one in the north is arriving in stages , beginning with a small group of horsemen from Leven who will be unsupported for at least two hours after they have arrived at the Tay . |
| 21 | They had arrived at the grave . |
| 22 | When at last I looked up we 'd almost arrived at the village . |
| 23 | Well , the revels master returned , saying that some masked noble figures had arrived at the water stairs . |
| 24 | We have , then , arrived at the beginning rather than at the end of a story . |
| 25 | Arrived at the inn , he hammered on the door . |
| 26 | However , love or no love , Martin had arrived at the gallery one morning , with his small baby in his arms , and the news that his wife had left him , and the clear expectation of help of some kind from Clelia . |
| 27 | She was late because Crystal Daly telephoned , indignant that Brian Berg had arrived at the gallery and accused her of being MacQuillan 's mistress . |
| 28 | If Hugh and Prior Robert had not been well mounted , and the elderly but resolute former steward of Ramsey forced to go afoot , they could not have arrived at the cathedral priory of Worcester within a day of each other . |
| 29 | In April 1770 he was again arrested for debt , and this time wrote to an unknown friend : ‘ After being six times arrested : nine times in a spunging house ; and three times in the Fleet-prison , I am at least happily arrived at the King 's Bench [ Prison ] ’ . |
| 30 | Hugh and Prior Robert had arrived at the priory late in the evening , paid their respects to the prior , attended Vespers to do reverence to the saints of the foundation , Saints Oswald and Wulstan , and taken Herluin and his attendants into their confidence about the loss , or at the very least the misplacement , of Saint Winifred 's reliquary ; with a sharp eye , at least on Hugh 's part , for the way the news was received . |