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There is not a good equivalent for the misuse of arrive in this sentence: "You can have him after I've arrived him." This is because the actor is not the receptionist but the Faldage. Only Faldage arrives; receptionists do other things. They might record him, check him in, tick him off the list, welcome him, acknowledge him, enter him or any of a dozen other things ... but none of them have anything arriving about them, as the receptionist already arrived earlier in the story.
P.S. Is this response within the category of "run[ning] amok decrying the usage"? One hopes not.
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