Example sentences of "[verb] arrived at the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 On writing about his perfect country house , Baillie Scott is adamantly opposed to the vulgar and proposes what he considers to be the simple open plan way of life : ‘ Having arrived at the central idea of a hall or living room as the keynote of a home it follows naturally that one must group round this the various other rooms … first the ‘ ladies ’ bower'' , the ‘ ‘ drawing-room' ’ as we now call it .
2 It appeared to have arrived at the right time .
3 Once he had arrived at the Southern Capital , he had proclaimed his loyalty to the old gods loudly and publicly , disowning the Aten and throwing himself on the mercy of the priests of Amun , who even then were growing bold as the revolutionary pharaoh lost his grip both on reality and his empire .
4 The verderers had arrived at the tumbled stones soon after the moon rose .
5 By this time two fire engines and a police van had arrived at the front entrance .
6 He had arrived at the forward brigade post three hours earlier .
7 In an interview with La Stampa yesterday , Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA chief Carlo De Benedetti condemned the pervasive system of political corruption , which he says obligated Olivetti to pay bribes or lose contracts , as ‘ having reduced Italy to a state worse than the Third World ’ : he says that at the last shareholders meeting earlier this year , he had to deny any bribery because he could n't preview information to the shareholders that was intended for the legal authorities ; he says that facing the judges , he felt liberated from a weight — ‘ then I felt a sense of justice — it pleased me to be there , ’ noting that when the company decided that the demands of the postal service for slush funds became too extreme and Olivetti stopped paying , ‘ we did n't sell another machine to the Post — we had arrived at the absurd point where , if we did n't pay , we did n't work and the moment we quit paying , we did n't work any more ’ .
8 The men had arrived at the empty farmhouse fifteen hours earlier , just as dusk was falling .
9 Indeed , when the party had arrived at the bleak airport in Tehran in the middle of Ramadan , hoping to find a government delegation of equal weight , nobody was there to meet them .
10 By early Tuesday afternoon , however , pro-Noriega forces had arrived at the military command headquarters , where General Noriega was apparently being held , and the rebels surrendered .
11 He had arrived at the precise moment when Elizabeth had begun to sob and then desolately to weep , and all Lydia 's skills , social , sexual and manipulative , had abruptly deserted her .
12 He had arrived at the precise moment when another twist in the plot of a murder weekend was unravelling itself .
13 Now that he had arrived at the wildest part of Britain , he wished to use his adventure in the same spirit as that in which Montaigne wrote his famous Essais — as trials of himself , as investigations of the ideas that arose in the non-stop chatter of his mind .
14 Saxe-Weimar had arrived at the very nick of time .
15 Presently he was there , he had arrived at the wooden planks and the criss-crossed supports of the bridge .
16 Once they 've arrived at the secret location near Doncaster , they 're placed into the care of the local badger protection group .
17 So we have arrived at the following paradox .
18 A measure of your success in a coaching session is when the subordinate feels the discussion has been between two equals and that together you have arrived at the best course of action .
19 Nevertheless we have arrived at the same figures .
20 Both companies have arrived at the same answer .
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