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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.



Do you not understand how verbs that can be both transitive and intransitive work? This is just the same thing as saying, e.g.:

A) I burned the pile of wood.

2) The pile of wood burned.

Incidentally, your list of things that she might have done pretty much sums up what she did. She said it all in one word. Sounds like a pretty evil abuse of language to me.