The phrase "arrived here before" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to indicate that someone or something has reached a specific location prior to the current time or event being discussed.
Example: "I was surprised to find that she had arrived here before me, despite leaving later."
Alternatives: "got here earlier" or "reached this place first".
THE first Caterpillar equipment arrived here before World War II, when Vietnam was still a French colony.
We knew that on the day of our arrival that March, for a flicker of history, every one of this city's eight million citizens would have arrived here before us.
In an October 2011 national poll conducted by the Anti-Defamation League, we found that a strong majority of Americans -- 60percentt -- were in favor of a six-year path to citizenship if the children had arrived here before they were 15 years old and had lived here at least five years.
Evidently, Americans realize the young people affected by this new policy (those that arrived here before the age of 16, have been here for five years, are in school or served in the military, and do not pose a national security threat) are innocents.
That the millennium would arrive here before it arrived anywhere else.
Secretary of State Colin L. Powell said on CNN that he expected George J. Tenet, the director of central intelligence, to arrive here before the end of the week.
Scrum of elbowing photographers pressing up against our seats, poised to take pix of #OscarPistorius if he arrives here before magistrate.
A group of 14 children who have been living in a squalid refugee camp in France was brought to Britain on Monday, the first in a likely wave of minors expected to arrive here before French authorities demolish an encampment that became known as "the Jungle".
"Have you met Wholesale Marble?" Many of the city's oldest businesses were founded by Italians or Eastern European Jews who arrived here shortly before the turn of the twentieth century; subsisted at first by peddling merchandise from pushcarts or horse-drawn wagons; eventually saved enough money to acquire storefronts; and passed their growing businesses to their children.
DALGA, Egypt — A convoy of more than a dozen armored police and army vehicles arrived here just before dawn on Monday, rolling into the rural village that has witnessed the most horrific sectarian violence in Egypt since the military's ouster two months ago of President Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood.
It also expands the 2012 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program for immigrants who arrived here illegally (before it only for people under the age of 30).
