Example sentences of "it [vb past] reach [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This water heater is not to be used as it failed to reach the er oh well I now ! |
| 2 | ‘ A man like you might have looked through the screens of the rickshaw ; might have counted the time it took to reach the place , calculated the direction in which you were taken . ’ |
| 3 | The current of force in them was eddying slowly round — it had reached a level stretch after whatever rush had carried them here . |
| 4 | Disney said yesterday it had reached a settlement with one group of contractors for an undisclosed sum . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | by 1976 , it had reached a similar degree of complexity and confusion . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Before any action could be taken , it had reached a magazine full of 155 mm. |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ] . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | If it had reached the Morvan and had then turned round , but did not make it back to base , then a crash on land or sea is self-evident : if on land , only the agency — the weather , engine trouble , or enemy action — is in doubt . |
| 14 | The 1902 bridge over the River Rheidol was passed for service last year but it had reached the end of its working life . |
| 15 | Dickens has an horrific description of it in The Old Curiosity , Shop ( 1841 ) , when it had reached the rock bottom of filth and ugliness , and of human degradation . |
| 16 | It had reached the lights just as the amber changed to red and turned down the Sandwich road . |
| 17 | ‘ It had reached the roof void of number 12 . |