Sentence examples for arrive there first from inspiring English sources

The group is rescued before Revkin can kill and eat his companions, but the occasion sparks a lively chapter on the quest for the North Pole, and the explorers, fortune-hunters and liars who fought to arrive there first, although "the drift of the ice guarantees that anyone who is at the North Pole at one moment is not there a few minutes later".

San Martín discovered that the royalists intended to pillage the San Carlos Convent and pressed the march to arrive there first.

A swift enough takeover of the oilfields would prevent an attempt by the Iraqi leader to blow them up, and stop the Turks and Kurds from arriving there first and getting into a fight for them.

Whichever team arrives there first, it appears likely that for the first time there will not be an independent American-owned maker of the most advanced chip-making machines.

But several events could sow doubt about Mr. Bingham's reputation: Peru has threatened legal action against Yale to recover thousands of artifacts he is accused of removing from the site, new evidence suggests that a German adventurer may have arrived there first and a legal dispute has been grinding on over who owned the site when Mr. Bingham supposedly discovered it.

He boarded the train and arrived there first as Henryk Gorski, then after the murder of his twin brother, became known as Jerzy Eugeniusz Godlewski.

Rukmini, based in Dakar, Senegal, built a record of accomplishment at the AP since arriving there first as a reporter in 2007 and continuing as bureau chief since 2011.

If the German police, for instance, want to seize the assets held by suspected criminals in Belgium, or to hold up a shipment of drugs they suspect are about to arrive there, they must first wait to get approval through a Belgian court.

UNICEF was the first to arrive there with water, sanitation and hygiene interventions.

Ms. Smith was the second woman to run the college and the first one to arrive there after it had become coeducational.

Chang'e-3 will be the first craft to arrive there since Luna-24, a Soviet mission, in 1976.