Example sentences of "he arrives [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He arrives without the key and sends a runner to the office to retrieve it , while he calls the register in the rain . |
| 2 | Since then , communism has fallen , and his once-faithful compatriots will no longer welcome him with the same fervour when he arrives for his fourth visit on June 1st . |
| 3 | David Mellor is besieged by a press posse as he arrives for a showdown at The Last Chance Saloon last night Picture : KEN LENNOX |
| 4 | When he arrives for his pleasure he is asked by the girl 's mother : ( " Have you brought the goods that you are to give to my girl ? " ) |
| 5 | Even worse off is the pilot who still believes he will make it and takes no action until he arrives on the ground or in a hedge . |
| 6 | He should not be nervous : by the time he arrives on stage just before the end of the first act the youngsters in the audience had been thoroughly warmed up by all the silliness created by Michael Barrymore and the Roly Polys ; the bruisers from Essex who turned up to see their hero had been thoroughly oiled with lager and were ready to send their love across the footlights . |
| 7 | He arrives on stage going faster than an Olympic sprinter . |
| 8 | He arrives on the scene about two minutes after the bell has rung for the start of break , clutching his large black Bible under his arm . |
| 9 | The male oriental fruit moth employs greater subterfuge by producing a scent similar to the female 's as soon as he arrives on the scene . |
| 10 | ‘ Adai is coming to the prison after he arrives on Earth . ’ |
| 11 | He arrives on a ship from Spain and then travels through the Netherlands on a white horse with his assistant , Black Peter . |
| 12 | So they stand cheerfully by the carriage window revealing in loud voices the personal secrets of the wretched traveller , who winces as he realizes that he has to travel two hundred miles with a carriage full of strangers who know his family history , how prone he is to chills if he wears a damp vest , what he has to do when he arrives at his destination . |
| 13 | Parliament may make it a crime for a Frenchman to smoke on the streets of Paris but he may puff away on the Montparnasse with impunity ( until , that is , he arrives at Dover ) . |
| 14 | bases on which he arrives at a decision that he may sometimes find considerable difficulty in making a good case on paper for some action he may have taken , even though he feels , and subsequent events may prove , that action to have been perfectly correct . |
| 15 | I am not suggesting that he arrives at the meaning of Truth as the result of philosophical or metaphysical speculation in a vacuum . |
| 16 | Fergie will take the girls to see their father , Prince Andrew when he arrives at Sandringham . |
| 17 | If we now consider the relations he posits between them we find ourselves facing a comparable problem ; although he posits numerous interconnec-tions between the components of social formations , he neither explains how he arrives at them nor describes them in any detail . |
| 18 | In it , through a strict linguistic analysis of the words of the Koran , he arrives at an interpretation of the prophet Muhammad 's teaching that is in tune with modern philosophic and scientific thought . |
| 19 | The answer he arrives at is a ‘ constitutional democracy ’ which comprises a government which preserves equal basic liberties and promotes equality of opportunity and an economic system based on a market mechanism . |
| 20 | In calculating the time when a review is due , the starting point is : ( a ) where a person is arrested outside the police station ( i ) the time he arrives at the relevant station ; or ( ii ) the time 24 hours after the time of his arrest , whichever is the earlier ; ( b ) where a person attends the police station voluntarily and is subsequently arrested there the time of arrest ; ( c ) where a person is arrested outside England and Wales : ( i ) the time he arrives at the first station to which he is taken in the police area in which the offence for which he has been arrested is being investigated ; or ( ii ) 24 hours after the time of his entry into the country whichever is the earlier ; ( d ) where a person is arrested in another part of the country and has to be taken to the police area where the offence is being investigated for questioning — the time at which he arrived at the first police station in the police area in question . |
| 21 | In calculating the time when a review is due , the starting point is : ( a ) where a person is arrested outside the police station ( i ) the time he arrives at the relevant station ; or ( ii ) the time 24 hours after the time of his arrest , whichever is the earlier ; ( b ) where a person attends the police station voluntarily and is subsequently arrested there the time of arrest ; ( c ) where a person is arrested outside England and Wales : ( i ) the time he arrives at the first station to which he is taken in the police area in which the offence for which he has been arrested is being investigated ; or ( ii ) 24 hours after the time of his entry into the country whichever is the earlier ; ( d ) where a person is arrested in another part of the country and has to be taken to the police area where the offence is being investigated for questioning — the time at which he arrived at the first police station in the police area in question . |
| 22 | He arrives at the police station . |
| 23 | 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 . " |
| 24 | When he arrives at his destination he can not rely upon finding effective substitutes not merely for the luxuries , but for the common necessaries , which he may have left behind . |
| 25 | He arrives at Mrs. Jones with 150 bags left on the lorry . |
| 26 | Often , however , he is under such pressure to complete the project by a given date that he accepts the first feasible solution he arrives at instead of working systematically towards the optimum . |
| 27 | After reading the signpost , the user moves off in the direction of his choice until he arrives at the next crossroads . |
| 28 | Australian , Jamie Stewart , will be sampling his first season in England when he arrives at Middlesbrough . |
| 29 | He arrives at the Forum in the Tony and Olivier award-winning play M. |
| 30 | THE Governor of Hong Kong , Sir David Wilson , is likely to make a last-ditch attempt to influence the Government 's package for giving the right of abode to the colony 's British passport holders when he arrives in London on Tuesday . |