arriver

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Les américains 🇺🇸 qui regardent #EmilyInParis sur Netflix et qui salivent déjà en s’imaginant arriver dans #Paris depuis CDG en taxi ... les pauvres le choc sera terrible.

From The Guardian • Oct. 6, 2020

“Si cela devait arriver, ce serait merveilleux,” elle ajouta.

From New York Times • Apr. 13, 2017

Colleagues may seethe with frustration, work later or take work home to catch up, yet few speak up and object—especially if the late arriver is the boss.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jul. 7, 2015

Since most parties have dull beginnings, the late arriver can spare himself short eternities of throat-clearing ennui.

From Time Magazine Archive

Mr. Max Müller retrace ainsi, d'une manière ingénieuse, mais bien convainçante, l'usage des mots pour arriver à leurs racines primitives, et puis il forme des théories d'après ces comparaisons—qui sont au moins toujours intéressantes.

From Philip Gilbert Hamerton An Autobiography, 1834-1858, and a Memoir by His Wife, 1858-1894 by Hamerton, Philip Gilbert