Example sentences of "arrived at the [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gasping for breath , they arrived at the bottom of the pit . |
| 2 | We arrived at the bottom of a rope ladder which seemed to rise to an enormous height up the ship 's side . |
| 3 | They arrived at the bottom of a winding cliff path which seemed to lead to the fortress and the forest on the land above to the open land where a strange , timeless battle was being fought beneath the dusk sky . |
| 4 | A reader is bound to ask how you arrived at the idea of writing on such a subject . |
| 5 | Ignatieff ( 1978 ) suggests that Bentham like the prison reformer John Howard , also arrived at the idea of the corrigibility of man by re-education directed at the mind , albeit it by a different route . |
| 6 | Representatives of the Phoenix King arrived at the court of the Emperor of Cathay . |
| 7 | In the Old World , Teclis and his companions arrived at the court of Magnus the Pious , where Teclis 's wise advice and mighty sorcery soon made him an invaluable councillor . |
| 8 | When the goods arrived at the port of discharge , SeaDocs was to have transmitted an identifying code number to the ship 's master . |
| 9 | The weather was changing : blue-black clouds were building in the south-east and , as Wycliffe arrived at the back of the Garlands ' shop , they obscured the sun . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | They arrived at the edge of the trees just in time to see Angel One advance to stand over the sprawled figure of Brett Grant . |
| 12 | When she arrived at the edge of the covert , she made her way cautiously along its downhill fringes . |
| 13 | She had just got to incarceration in a convent for the rest of her days when they arrived at the top of the stairs . |
| 14 | I arrived at the Ministry of Culture and went to see Khalturin . |
| 15 | Hannah Hauxwell 's somewhat late introduction to the benefits of modern civilization , such as water that arrived at the turn of a tap , central heating , shops just a few yards away , even a telephone ( the number is ex-directory or it would never stop ) , clearly created a revolution in her life Her financial situation also improved dramatically with a tidy amount left from the sale of Low Birk Hatt to invest , and substantial sums from the royalties of her best-selling book . |
| 16 | When she arrived at the beginning of July , they had a great deal to talk about . |
| 17 | He arrived at the beginning of May and I was thrilled with him , although he was sometimes naughty and difficult to catch . |
| 18 | He turned off along one of the dimly-lit back streets and , making the most of his bump of direction , arrived at the foot of the steep slope which led up to The Brigantine , the pub where Tony had taken him . |
| 19 | Yanto cycled on down the wharf , dodging the mooring ropes until he arrived at the berth of a small Norwegian timber boat called ‘ Marit , ’ registered in Oslo . |
| 20 | The Staples Corner explosion — less than a mile from the Metropoltan police training college — went off just after 1am as Mr Kenneth Baker , Home Secretary , arrived at the scene of the City blast . |
| 21 | On his way down to take part in an official inspection , Wycliffe had monitored reports on his car radio and so arrived at the scene of crime before his headquarters had got a team together . |
| 22 | Mr Jones , of the Barnard Castle fire station , said he arrived at the scene of the accident near Windy Hill Quarry to find ambulance staff holding the victim 's head above the water . |
| 23 | Navigating along dry forest roads we arrived at the base of Mount Robert . |
| 24 | By the time the film crew arrived at the door of the Fox and Hounds , the drifts were rising to eighteen inches . |
| 25 | Farmer Boldwood arrived at the door of the barn , and spoke to Bathsheba . |
| 26 | He saw the King to the gates and , coming back , heard the clangour of Elfswitha 's malevolence before he arrived at the door of their chamber . |
| 27 | DICK Palmer ( left ) , chairman of the British Olympic Federation and Peter Knowles of Manchester 2000 are welcomed by North Ireland Sports Council chairman Don Allen and Joan McCloy when they arrived at the House of Sport for their presentation of the Manchester bid for the Olympic Games in 2000 . |
| 28 | She had known that , beyond a doubt , Havvie must have formed liaisons , had mistresses — few young men of his rank and class arrived at the age of thirty innocent . |
| 29 | When they arrived at the HQ of World Security in Freiburg the closed gates were opened for them immediately . |
| 30 | Microcomputers arrived at the start of the 1970s , by which time a body of expertise in computer-aided design ( CAD ) had been built up . |