Example sentences of "arrive at the [noun] and " in BNC.

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1 Mr. Constantine arrives at the hotel and is warmly welcomed by a smiling front desk clerk who explains all the services the hotel has to offer .
2 Primaflora was absent when he arrived at the villa and when she returned , an hour later , she was wearing a girdle and a left sleeve he had never seen before , and a jewelled coif with a curled feather in it .
3 After the Zombie 's travels through Victorian London ( where , incidentally , he committed the crimes attributed to Jack the Ripper ) he arrived at the Grange and enlisted the help of Tick , a deformed coachman of evil character ( played by Charles Paris ) .
4 To their combined relief , it was not long before the two men arrived at the driveway and stepped cautiously out onto its surface .
5 The discovery was made at 11.30am after staff arrived at the pub and found they could not get in .
6 We arrived at the border and ‘ commenced battle ’ with the Hungarian border guards who made their inevitable demand for ‘ whisky , chocolates , etc etc ’ .
7 Then on the 16th May , 1775 a Corporation committee and a team of labourers , having served notice on Mr. Guinness , arrived at the brewery and set out to cut off and fill in the water course from which the brewery drew its supplies .
8 More folk arrived at the hide and we relinquished our places .
9 A few weeks later , Beatrix arrived at the camp and took us away . ’
10 A police car finally arrived at the scene and officers spoke to the motorist .
11 Eventually , just before 2 p.m. , a small delegation arrived at the Elephant and Castle seeking clarification of what would be on offer .
12 It was eight o'clock when we arrived at the station and got on the train , and by half-past nine we were in Strelsau .
13 Anyway , arrived at the station and there was this great coach standing there waiting to take them all to .
14 We arrived at the house and my Dad introduced me to a woman .
15 He said the men began to ‘ panic and swear ’ when police arrived at the house and Maher appeared at the window , saying : ‘ This is something which has gone terribly wrong . ’
16 And within hours Darlington council workmen arrived at the house and fixed all the various problems .
17 The official report of the Maadi Hospital states that when Sadat arrived at the hospital and was examined he was in a state of complete coma .
18 I arrived at the hospital and was shown to the labour room .
19 A sixty-foot tree , a gift from the people of Stockholm in recognition of the hospitality shown to Swedish seamen during the war , arrived at the Docks and was ceremoniously welcomed by the Lord Mayor .
20 Tony and his mother arrived at the farmhouse and walked through the farmyard .
21 Seb arrived at the farmhouse and feared the worst when he saw the meeting was taking place in the ‘ best ’ sitting room and not in the kitchen .
22 When I first arrived at the flat and knocked on the door there was no answer .
23 Today , when Florrie arrived at the corner-shop and rapped on the closed front door , Aunt Emily lifted the roller-blind and peered shortsightedly at her through the glass .
24 She was late because Crystal Daly telephoned , indignant that Brian Berg had arrived at the gallery and accused her of being MacQuillan 's mistress .
25 A cold wind had picked up since she had arrived at the bar and she rubbed her arms quickly before picking her way through a sea of discarded newspaper to a metal drum and ducked down behind it , her eyes riveted on the door .
26 He 'd fucking had his dinner at six o'clock , I do n't even know what I rang the club later , I tell you like , twenty past he 'd arrived at the club and he was early , where 'd you go ?
27 ‘ In the meantime , my dad had arrived at the house and spotted two men hanging around the ditched vehicle .
28 Thorfinn said , ‘ He 's arrived at the coast and judged our numbers .
29 We arrive at the works and call in at their pollution control offices where they have a small full-time staff looking after pollution in the works .
30 Alternatively the retained profit could be deducted from a calculation of the profit and loss account balance carried forward so as to arrive at the profit and loss account brought forward .
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