Example sentences of "they reached [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Where their interests overlapped with the Maud Committee they reached similar conclusions , and we may concentrate on the latter as dealing in greater detail with the concerns of this chapter . |
2 | Later generations spread south as far as the tip of South America ; later still they reached similar latitudes in southern New Zealand . |
3 | It would be miles yet , probably another day of travelling , before they reached safer country , and even if fitzAlan stubbornly insisted that he could travel the horse would n't go forever . |
4 | But they were enraged when they reached Five Ways to discover the one exit door was locked . |
5 | ‘ Boy labour ’ in all spheres was a transient period of employment , and even in the more essential areas of work boys would lose their jobs — whether as ‘ nippers ’ or ‘ handy lads ’ in factories , or as van boys and messenger boys — when they reached early maturity and lost their enthusiasm for boyish wages . |
6 | Ramsay 's company had no difficulty in finding the Scots army once they reached lower Annandale , for any large host leaves ample tracks behind . |
7 | The female member of Scott Bramwell 's Delmas team suffered severe altitude sickness as they reached 12,000 feet and she had to retire . |
8 | The market for British films was not sufficiently large to justify mass production of films at budgets high enough to ensure they reached real quality , and executives at Stoll did n't understand the difference between good stories and good cinema . |
9 | Charlie followed the colour-sergeant through the outer office until they reached another door marked ‘ Capt Trentham , Adj ’ . |
10 | It took them two days before they reached human habitation . |
11 | Long before they reached this degree of sophistication , however , in the main stream of Commando forces ( see diagram p. 14 ) were spawned many small fry . |
12 | Sugar Ray Leonard and Roberto Duran , legends of the ring years before they reached this collision , will reach out and try to mist the reality that they are both beyond their peaks of power and reflex action . |
13 | They reached this conclusion both on consideration of the authorities and on principle . |
14 | They reached some sort of conclusion , though . |
15 | The company tended to capitalise all costs and revenues associated with opening new homes until they reached projected break-even occupancy levels . |
16 | Before they reached these lines , their right wing merged with the left of Douglas 's front . |
17 | They reached mass audiences , whom their ‘ messages ’ frequently interested much more than the news or the programmes that the advertisements indirectly helped pay for . |