Example sentences of "reached [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Got squashed in the photo files by Brendon Fitzgerald , broke the photocopier , got lost looking for the canteen , uncovered the truth about IPC tea , became Dele Fadele 's personal typewriter ribbon engineer ( have been ever since ) , discovered House music had not yet reached Waterloo , realised that guitars really are the work of the devil , mended the then extremely sad NME stereo ( ie , plugged it in ) and was quickly appointed technical supervisor to anything mechanical ( plugs , electrical toothbrushes ) , invented dance music , formed Subbuteo league with James Brown and Simon Dudfield which eventually became fixed beyond all belief , tried to blag a Misty In Roots CD and failed . |
| 2 | I calculated that if Charlie 's train had arrived at King 's Cross on time that morning , he should have already reached Chelsea by now , even if he had had to cover the entire journey on foot . |
| 3 | By the time I had reached Moscow I had exhausted myself physically in a purely sensual relationship with my Leningrad guide , Natasha . |
| 4 | Although the German forces on the eastern front of the European battle-zone , had not reached Moscow , they had been able to reach the outskirts of Stalingrad by August 1942 , in which month Winston Churchill visited Stalin in Moscow . |
| 5 | The yield from the clothes had reached Fulham by sunrise . |
| 6 | By now the railway had reached Addis Ababa so we were able to travel all the way to Jibuti by train . |
| 7 | Meanwhile , after the Greeks had reached Ferrara , Eugenius was forced to transfer the meeting to Florence . |
| 8 | This prompted a fruitless air search at the end of June when the yacht had not reached Tonga . |
| 9 | Indeed , the French envoy de Craon knew more , claiming the Prince had told him about Lady Eleanor 's death long before the porter had even reached Woodstock . |
| 10 | By the end of the month a summary of their findings had reached Richard 's parents at Balmoral . |
| 11 | The rumours must have reached Richard 's ears — indeed they may have been primarily intended for him . |
| 12 | It means that you do n't get the good views of the Cove until you 've reached Malham Beck , but I think that it 's better doing the walk this way round than going at it clockwise and having to clamber down the scar . |
| 13 | And proof that an informant had indeed reached Edward from the town was provided by the fact that the emissaries now demanded that the required hostage should be none other than Seton 's own son , a young man whom he had brought with him to Berwick on his first military venture , unfortunate a start as this had turned out to be . |
| 14 | Rose should surely have reached Vetch Street by now and Eddie been sent on his way by Matey or McAllister after being summoned from his nearby home . |
| 15 | If it had n't been for that you 'd have reached Shipton and been on a train by now . ’ |
| 16 | Forward scouts came back to inform that the English might had reached Cheswick , a mere six miles to the south , and its vanguard would be before Berwick in a few hours . |
| 17 | Having reached Newport , Rhode Island , he decided to start the college there , but , despite promises , financial support was not forthcoming , and he returned to England . |
| 18 | The electric drill had not yet been invented or if it had , it had n't reached Scotland , and Hector bored holes in teeth with a fearsome foot-operated machine . |
| 19 | Ian Wardle , of the help agency Lifeline , has seen the drug explode onto the Manchester rave scene and now it is known to have reached Scotland and Humberside . |
| 20 | Equally enthusiastic was Pehr Kalm , who arrived at Kingsessing three days after he had reached Philadelphia in 1748 , also with a letter of introduction from Collinson . |
| 21 | We looked at each other — we had finally reached Isparion 's elusive summit . |
| 22 | By 1906 it had reached South Yorkshire and the North Midlands ; by 1914 Lancashire . |
| 23 | At the other end of the world , Shackleton had reached South Georgia Island after two years ' isolation in Antarctica : |
| 24 | A garbled version of it had somehow reached England . |
| 25 | Four other MLs reached England — ML 8 made the passage on one engine and MLs 6 , 12 and 13 had some damage and casualties . |
| 26 | Modernism always had an irremediably alien air about it , having reached England at around the turn of the century in the hands of immigrants : Conrad from Poland , Eliot and Pound from the United States , Wyndham Lewis from somewhere vaguely transatlantic . |
| 27 | She informed the father after she had reached England that she wished to remain in England with the children permanently . |
| 28 | It is true that manuscript collections of madrigals had reached England earlier and that a minor conservative and non-dramatic madrigalist , Alfonso Ferrabosco the elder , had been in Elizabeth I 's service during the years 1562 to 1578 . |
| 29 | ‘ Next , Stapleton learned that Sir Henry had reached England , so he went to London . |
| 30 | it 's , well its reached England it 's not epidemic proportions yet |