Sentence examples for have arrived before from inspiring English sources

DEFECTORS have arrived before, but not on this scale.

That was to "give sufficient time for the ballot paper to have arrived before it was considered lost".

Some polite souls will try spontaneously to form one of these, by ostentatiously standing behind the person who appears to have arrived before them.

On "NBC Nightly News," Brian Williams called the Haiti earthquake the third global tragedy in five years where "we have arrived before the first responders," the first two being the tsunami in late 2004 and Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

And while the boat arrivals have almost stopped, one did arrive in the Cocos Islands – which is part of Australia – 16 days ago and several have arrived before being turned back to Indonesia.

"Had the correct response been generated, then the ambulance would have arrived before rather than after Clayton collapsed, in which case, on the balance of probabilities, his chances of survival would have been enhanced".

Both had arrived before the passage of the Endangered Species Act, in 1973.

Robert Cumberland and Larken Euliss, two chemists from California, had arrived before dawn.

Like the other coaches and clubhouse attendants, he had arrived before the first player.

M.'s luck had changed: the tanks had arrived before the vigilantes.

In one sense Michael McGuckin had arrived before he even started out.