Example sentences of "reach [pers pn] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bernice calculated that it would take the best part of an hour to reach them on foot . |
| 2 | The future — the very lives — of these children depend on our ability to reach them with vaccines and health education . |
| 3 | In March 1953 I received the last of her novels to reach me in Egypt . |
| 4 | Unable to reach you by phone , he 's decided to come in person ! |
| 5 | The mail will probably take a couple of days longer to reach you from Sian , & no doubt we 'll be very busy when we get there , so forgive me if you do n't hear from me for a little while . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'll try to reach him in Coleraine . |
| 7 | Under these circumstances we were obliged to reach it at night , in a small open boat crewed by two very anxious and expensive local fishermen . |
| 8 | But suddenly , around one minute into the round , the Champ drops his gloves to his sides , exposing his chin , and when his opponent tries to reach it with punches , he pulls his head back and away , just like the Ali we remember , causing the kid to miss by less than an inch . |
| 9 | They are fed in onto this global trunk circuit erm from many feeder lines , sometimes by radio , sometimes by telephone , but they get in onto the very high-speed trunk circuit , and of those eight and half thousand observations made every hour , it takes between four and five minutes for six and half thousand of them to reach us at Bracknell . |
| 10 | So if we 're talking about something talking about something taking a light year to reach us in terms of light , any possibility of human contact we 're talking about millions of years , probably , rather than a few years . |
| 11 | Send your name and address on a postcard to reach us by October 31 1989 to : SHE/Revlon Offer , PO Box 98 , Carshalton , Surrey , SM5 2DB. 500 have been put aside specially for SHE subscribers , so if this applies please mark your postcard ‘ subscriber ’ . |
| 12 | Send your entry to SHE/Pandora Short Story Competition , SHE , National Magazine House , 72 Broadwick Street , London W1V 2BP , to reach us by October 31 1989 . |
| 13 | . Write your answer , name and address , on a postcard , to : The Limit 's The Shamen competition , 1 Thavies Inn , London EC88 1AB , to reach us by October 1 . |
| 14 | We allow 7 days from confirmation of the booking for monies to reach us by post . |
| 15 | Your postcards to reach us by Saturday , December 19 , 1992 . |
| 16 | Over the airwaves and under the sea , or however his quavering voice reaches me from LA , I hear S. O. Letterman . |
| 17 | I had to end the letters ‘ Always supposing this letter reaches you in time . ’ |
| 18 | The quarterly newspaper Wood News continues to be our principal source of communication and in 1992 we established a network of local Correspondents to ensure that news from all companies reaches us for publication . |
| 19 | I remember thinking that if I had been trapped in the car , the firemen would not have reached me in time . |
| 20 | ‘ Which brings me to this report which has reached me from Vargas in London via his cousin here in Berlin , the man Rivera . ’ |
| 21 | She wants me to take Tracy immediately , before the Empress realises no word has reached her from Winchester and enlarges the garrison . ’ |
| 22 | Good news for us but bad for them and that 'll have to be all for today , we 've been answering some of the queries that have reached us by post . |
| 23 | the bumper bundle of review samples they were sending has n't reached us in time for this issue , though , so look out next month for further toe-tappin' details ! |
| 24 | Your letters have been coming quite regularly , and apart from the couple of letters which reached me via Sian , nothing has interrupted the flow , and they are a comfort , especially as the children seem to be getting on so well , and the computer course as well . |
| 25 | She kept up the desperate battle until another ambulance reached them near Hexham , Northumberland . |
| 26 | If anyone would like a form or would like to know more about CLIC they can reach me on extension 2798 and I will be glad to help . ’ |
| 27 | People who do n't know we drove for miles in the rain so that it might reach them in time . ’ |
| 28 | I shall try and reach you by telephone in the next day or two , and see what you think of this suggestion . |
| 29 | Late items or alterations can reach her on Wednesdays , Belfast 321242/Ext 4872 , between 10.00am and 12.30pm . |
| 30 | Heroine trapped in the treasure cave , time ticking away until the Big Bang ; can the hero reach her in time ? |