Example sentences of "it [vb past] reach a " in BNC.

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1 The current of force in them was eddying slowly round — it had reached a level stretch after whatever rush had carried them here .
2 Disney said yesterday it had reached a settlement with one group of contractors for an undisclosed sum .
3 By the end of September it had reached a news agency reporter in Manchester , who offered it to the Daily Post , an ailing middle-market Fleet Street tabloid , for £15,000 .
4 by 1976 , it had reached a similar degree of complexity and confusion .
5 But Main Line contended it had reached a binding verbal agreement with Basinger , who was to have been paid £2m ( 3m dollars ) for six weeks ' work , and that she backed out of it four weeks before shooting was to begin in 1991 .
6 Before any action could be taken , it had reached a magazine full of 155 mm.
7 This account could only be drawn on when it had reached an estimated $1,000 million and would be for the purpose of purchasing the external debt bonds of Argentina 's creditor banks .
8 In December , the World Food Programme announced that it had reached an agreement with the government and the EPLF to reopen the port [ see p. 37907 ] .
9 Taiwan announced on Sept. 8 that it had reached an accord with Russia to exchange unofficial representative offices , on the lines of the model used by Japan and the USA for unofficial representation in Taiwan .
10 But Main Line , an independent filmmaker , contended that it had reached an oral agreement with Basinger , a standard Hollywood handshake deal , and that she had later backed out of it .
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