Example sentences of "[subord] it reached [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I knew the train would n't stop again until it reached London . ’ |
| 2 | The tariff structure strongly discouraged completing the work of refining the sugar until it reached Britain , and there the increasing flow of sugar transformed people 's diet , provided revenue , and launched new industries . |
| 3 | His gaze casually swept up the table instead , skimming the bowed heads and carefully composed expressions until it reached Professor St John Goth , where it stopped short with a sense of shock . |
| 4 | Bobbie stayed on the train until it reached Stackpoole Junction . |
| 5 | The Russian right flank guard was , in any event , beaten and fell into retreat southward until it reached Olschienen and Wallen , more than 32km/20mls away . |
| 6 | As people tried and failed , the cash on offer accumulated until it reached $17,000 on the day Ed went on court . |
| 7 | They would sell securities , thus lowering their prices and raising the rate of interest until it reached r e . |
| 8 | In the second half of the first millennium , a canoe set out from an island in the Tahitian chain and steered due north for two and a half thousand miles by the light of the stars and the ocean currents till it reached Hawaii . |
| 9 | The mini-skirt spread through the western world from many centres ; it appeared in Oxford Street , London , long before it reached Oxford Street , Swansea , and presumably it was seen in Chicago , Illinois , an appreciable time before it dazzled the male eyes of the " city " of Muddy in the south of the same state . |
| 10 | He remarked that the River Aire , even before it reached Leeds , had received the house drainage of a quarter of a million people , and the refuse from 1,341 cloth and woollen factories , 1 silk mill , 1 flax mill , 10 cotton factories , 7 paper mills , 26 tanneries , 13 chemical works , 8 grease works , 4 glue works and 35 dye works . |
| 11 | The tour itself ran into bad trouble when it reached Stockholm . |
| 12 | Possibly these entered an ancestor of D only when it reached York or Worcester . |
| 13 | The simplest reported that two Octopuses at Portsmouth Sea Life Centre required the use of two giant beer coolers from the Carlsberg brewery to chill the Solent sea water used in the tanks when it reached 22°C . |