verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a bus comes/arrives
▪ I waited and waited but the bus didn't come.
a convoy arrives
▪ The convoy arrived in Gelib carrying 450 tonnes of food.
a letter comes/arrives
▪ A letter came for you today.
a train arrives
▪ The train arrived on time.
appear/arrive on a scene (=become known)
▪ He first appeared on the arts scene in the 1960s.
arrive early/be early
▪ Some of the guests arrived early.
come to/arrive at a compromise
▪ The negotiations took place and they arrived at a compromise.
come to/arrive at/reach a conclusion (=decide something)
▪ I eventually came to the conclusion that I wanted to study law.
go/come/arrive by taxi
▪ I went back home by taxi.
reach/arrive at a verdict (=agree on a decision)
▪ The jury failed to reach a verdict.
reach/arrive at your destination (also get to your destinationinformal)
▪ It had taken us 6 hours to reach our destination.
reach/come to/arrive at a decision (=make a decision after a lot of thought)
▪ We hope they will reach their decision as soon as possible.
sth comes/arrives in the post
▪ This letter came in the post this morning.
the jury reaches/arrives at a verdict (=decides if someone is guilty or not guilty)
▪ Has the jury reached a verdict?
the mail comes/arrives
▪ The mail had come late that day.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
back
▪ When I arrived back in Glasgow on 10 June I wondered if anything was going to be the same again.
▪ The first signal to arrive back at Earth is the mirror-like reflection of the small area about the sub-Earth point on Mercury.
▪ Laura was sent for, and arrived back in London the following afternoon.
▪ The bells rang out for the first time just a day after they arrived back at the church.
▪ At about 11.20 on the night in question he arrived back in his room and wanted to use the lavatory.
▪ Even when I arrived back at Thornfield, I did not go in for a while.
▪ Too often, he says, we only recognise an opportunity when it arrives back on our doorstep as an import.
▪ Before she arrived back at the house, my sister would do as most kids would.
early
▪ Harry had arrived early for his appointment with Cunningham and was already regretting it.
▪ Two candidates, Buchanan and Alexander, arrived early for campaign appearances.
▪ To force them to arrive early is beyond comprehension.
▪ Three days later, he arrived early at the Higgins Middle School and opened the gym.
▪ I used to arrive early in the morning before the household had left on their rounds.
▪ Arrive early in the evening for a spot at the sushi bar, where most pairs go for about $ 3.
▪ The trouble with arriving early at a park is you don't look convincing pretending to take an interest in the roses.
▪ Larson arrived early to unlock the front door and changed quickly into his swimming trunks.
finally
▪ We finally arrived at the house.
▪ When dawn finally arrived, an ill-rested city streamed to witness the cause of its apprehension being sent to her eternal punishment.
▪ That night we finally arrived at Peshawar Airport.
▪ Marshall had finally arrived at his office and slowly, carefully, began reading the fourteen pages, starting with page one.
▪ They finally arrived at Lizzy's ward.
▪ We finally arrive on station and are submerged by midmorning.
▪ That's not what he thinks would or should happen, the day his lover finally arrives.
▪ When the day of reckoning finally arrived, the truth was found to lie well in the middle ground between these extremes.
here
▪ Miss Mei-Ling will be arriving here at twelve forty-five.
▪ The church has held them through fire and cholera epidemics since they arrived here with the compliments of the Bishop of London.
▪ As soon as Jacob arrived here, I knew that he would fall in love with her, just like all the others.
▪ And maybe that explains how this 18-year-old from Houston has arrived here in Atlanta ready to conquer the world.
▪ He arrived here very late, and they had to find a bunk for him on Rochester.
▪ That was not a widely held view when Republicans arrived here a week ago.
▪ When the girls arrive here, they know what to expect.
▪ I arrived here fretting about the law.
home
▪ When Alice arrived home, she counted what she had.
▪ Then they leave the office, exhausted and arrive home long after everyone else in the Western world has finished dinner.
▪ Stokes himself, arriving home with his squadron in September 1659, found his conduct fully vindicated by the government.
▪ When Jim arrived home from work, Della told Jim what she had done to buy his Christmas present.
▪ Gradually, as people arrive home from work, the lights become fewer and night thickens across the whole landscape.
▪ You arrive home, unlock the door, and realize you are very hot and sweaty.
▪ When she arrived home, the phone was ringing.
▪ Ed Williams often worked late shifts as a chemical operator for the Albemarle Co., arriving home before dawn.
just
▪ The pay officer arrived just as a Jeep was taking the body to an aid station inside the camp.
▪ MIKLÓS arrived just before one o'clock in an elderly red Skoda.
▪ They arrived just after the messenger from the shrine and jumped on Caledor by surprise.
▪ Pierluigi had just arrived from New York and was at his suite at the Drake.
▪ He could run for a hundred years, and still he would arrive just as the doors were closing.
late
▪ She could hardly keep her patience if the train was delayed and she arrived late.
▪ I arrive late at an auditorium filled with row upon row of molded-plastic lecture-chairs.
▪ From there a delayed flight took us on to Punta Arenas where we arrived late in the evening.
▪ About my tendency to repeat things ... kids arriving late in class and how they affected it.
▪ Once Hopkinson arrived late for breakfast to find the Colonel by himself reading a newspaper.
▪ However, experience around the country suggests that materials arrive late in the school term or not at all.
▪ Any which arrive late will result in the student being refused admission to the Examination Centre.
▪ He had arrived late, which was unlike him, and seemed tense and irritable.
newly
▪ Workshops and initiatives for the newly arrived civil engineers, tile-makers and labourers did not materialise.
▪ Several hundred thousand newly arrived cars and trucks have turned Tirana into a cacophony of novice drivers, congestion and accidents.
▪ I knew that the press was doing a selling job when we supported a newly arrived unit from Hawaii.
▪ Finally, with sword in hand, Juan takes his case before the newly arrived local judge.
▪ Primo senses she has said these exact words to newly arrived visitors before.
▪ Visitors were forbidden, in order to prevent coaching of the newly arrived.
▪ Younger black families were moving up from Watts and settling by working-class white families newly arrived from the South and the Midwest.
there
▪ Unfortunately, Jonathan arrived there in 1882 and missed the emperor by about 60 years.
▪ Ramsey arrived there on 30 July 1927.
▪ When more goods arrived there would be more stealing, he said.
▪ Never again would the Galway mail arrive there in its midnight glory.
▪ A week later there arrived a check sufficient to launch a full-scale book donation program in Czechoslovakia.
▪ I remember my excitement when I had arrived there for the first time from St Aubyn's.
■ NOUN
day
▪ One day as I arrived at the palace my horse shied at the sight of a white fragment on the ground.
▪ Finally, on November 25, a day after a dispatch arrived from Tokyo, Root saw Hulbert.
▪ Twenty-one days later the Prince arrived to see what was going on.
▪ It was delivered twice a day, packages arrived intact, and a stamp cost three cents.
▪ Finally the day arrived when they were ready to begin loading the asteroid for the trip.
▪ Snow domes everywhere, and every day something new arrives in the mail from her fans around the world.
▪ The bells rang out for the first time just a day after they arrived back at the church.
▪ Later that day the first birdwatchers arrived at the James Weldon Johnson Houses to scout the scene.
decision
▪ Using committees internally to overcome restrictions on information and thereby arrive at a decision.
▪ They spent time arriving at a decision on the correct software.
▪ This small breathing space had given her time to arrive at several important decisions.
▪ Telephone call took twenty minutes and had to explain how I had arrived at such a decision.
▪ My colleagues and I, after much consideration have arrived at a decision.
▪ He arrived at a decision, threw the cigarette away, and turned towards a small depressing row of agricultural cottages.
▪ The selling division is thus motivated and the buying division has information it can use to arrive at proper economic decisions.
house
▪ Before they could arrive at Jairus' house, a message was received that the daughter had died.
▪ In September 1933, an interviewer arrived at Prides from House Beautful.
▪ We finally arrived at the house.
▪ Fantasizing and encouraging myself in this fashion, l arrived at the house.
▪ We arrived at his house and knocked at the door.
▪ Uncle Shim arrived in our house like a tired memory, almost forgotten.
▪ When he arrived at the right house he checked the number carefully against his piece of paper.
▪ But when we arrived at her large house in the country, it was deserted.
minutes
▪ Long distance trains from Darlington to Hartlepool or Newcastle to Carlisle should arrive within ten minutes.
▪ Ambulances, each staffed by one paramedic and one emergency medical technician, must arrive within 12 minutes under the new standards.
▪ They arrived within minutes to save the building from being burnt down.
▪ Currently, ambulances must arrive within 10 minutes.
▪ The first half's key moment arrived after 25 minutes when the visitors took the lead.
▪ They arrived about 15 minutes later, arrived being perhaps the wrong word.
▪ Train arrives at Euston seven minutes late - not bad compared with recent performances, but still late.
▪ The First Lady arrived a few minutes after nine.
morning
▪ A hornet arrived the following morning, loose-jointed, like a gunslinger.
▪ He would arrive each morning at 5: 30 and would practice his martial-arts regimen on the South Lawn.
▪ Khatami arrived in Shiraz Monday morning to begin a four-day inspection tour of the province.
▪ He arrived early one morning unannounced, about nine weeks into the program.
▪ This was before Hannah arrived in the morning, we were standing talking.
▪ Hank would arrive each morning, dressed in his neat three-piece suit, white shirt, and solid-color tie.
▪ I used to arrive early in the morning before the household had left on their rounds.
▪ Matty arrived the next morning to find Michael Mortara, a Salomon Brothers managing director, waiting for him.
police
▪ The police have arrived and are asking questions about the death of Mr Hyde.
▪ Both groups fled before police arrived.
▪ Only then, said Joyce, did the police arrive in Warwick Street.
▪ The police arrive but later charge Audrey with murder and dismemberment.
▪ The police could arrive at any minute!
▪ And the police arrived before they left the set for the day.
▪ He waited for the police to arrive and flagged down an officer.
scene
▪ I saw her arrive on the scene, I saw the fire die out.
▪ Reichert arrived at the scene to back up Kirby and Anderson.
▪ To the outside world they had arrived on the international scene as self-made, jet-setting millionaires.
▪ Neta had been at Kinner field for several months by the time Amelia arrived on the scene.
▪ Meanwhile, unless his senses were awry from fear and pain, a newcomer had arrived on the scene.
▪ But it had to have been before Tucker arrived on the scene.
▪ When an investigator arrives at the scene of an accident there is a single golden rule: secure the wreckage.
time
▪ He was unconscious by the time he arrived at hospital in Sanford and remained in a coma until he died.
▪ My time had arrived, and I was ready.
▪ The wound was badly gangrenous by the time they arrived.
▪ Your time has arrived, but it does not come without some baggage.
▪ By the time they arrived Davidson, 38, had gone to his local pub at Ewhurst, Surrey.
▪ A short time after arriving at the hospital, the contractions slowed down and became sporadic.
▪ This small breathing space had given her time to arrive at several important decisions.
▪ Neta had been at Kinner field for several months by the time Amelia arrived on the scene.
■ VERB
begin
▪ The hospital had just finished a fairly full surgical schedule in late morning when the casualties began to arrive.
▪ Then the picture itself began to arrive.
▪ Packages began to arrive from Tokyo, too.
▪ People begin to arrive uninvited, so that Howard and Felicity find themselves keeping more or less open house.
▪ At ten-fifteen people began arriving in droves.
▪ By 6 o'clock they began to arrive, an awkward trickle at first.
▪ Two years later, the letters began to arrive.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
newly elected/formed/arrived etc
▪ A number of firms may also have had problems in achieving the synergies expected of newly formed structures.
▪ As he waits for the computer to load up the programmes, he scans the rolls of newly arrived faxes.
▪ Balmy, near-equatorial currents from Panthalassa rushed between the sundered continents along the newly formed Tethyan Seaway.
▪ I knew that the press was doing a selling job when we supported a newly arrived unit from Hawaii.
▪ The newly formed opposition coalition insisted it was the majority and kept the original day and time.
▪ The amnesty was reportedly requested by the newly elected local councils of Rangamati, Bandarban and Khagrachbari.
▪ Then the elite persuaded the newly elected mayor to appoint a committee to lay the groundwork for redevelopment.
▪ Workshops and initiatives for the newly arrived civil engineers, tile-makers and labourers did not materialise.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Did my package arrive?
▪ Has your sister's baby arrived yet?
▪ It was already dark by the time they arrived at their hotel.
▪ Our flight arrived in Osaka two hours ahead of schedule.
▪ Supply ships have started arriving at ports along the East coast.
▪ The baby arrived at five minutes past midnight.
▪ The British Prime Minister arrived in Tokyo today.
▪ The packages arrived the day before Christmas.
▪ The train isn't due to arrive until 4.30.
▪ Toy sales have doubled since computer games arrived.
▪ What time do you think we'll arrive?
▪ What time does his flight arrive?
▪ When I first arrived here none of the other students would talk to me.
▪ When the day of the wedding arrived, everything was ready.
▪ When Uncle Guy arrived from Dublin he brought them an enormous box of chocolates.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A chocolate treat arrived in the mail, just in time for the post-holiday body fat meltdown.
▪ Artists who have arrived at that position are expected to sit still and hold court.
▪ Grimma and Dorcas, almost the last to arrive, sidled their way into the crowd.
▪ There are no incentive payments offered to staff who arrive at work by kayak.
▪ We arrived at the palace, went in, and got to the dressing-room.
▪ We are all glad that she has arrived safely and has all her faculties!
▪ Why were the campsites so thoroughly cleaned up before authorities arrived?