Example sentences of "[noun] reach [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.

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1 It had no practical need to reach down further than the drought level of the river which had to leave a gap of at least two or three feet .
2 When they launched themselves into the dusk they seemed to fill the sky to the north for long minutes , and their cries reached as far as the village .
3 Western ports did play a part in shipping corn to London , in some years at least , the capital 's swallow reaching as far as Exeter and beyond to Cornwall .
4 Most of the other 10 queens are on European thrones , but the thin blue-blooded line reaches as far as Queen Aishwarya of Nepal , and Queen Mata-aho of Tonga .
5 The little manor-house at Cadhay stands near at hand in the Ottery meadows , and more distant views reach as far as the great hill-fort at Hembury , built on a commanding spur of land in the late Iron Age .
6 On particularly clear days ( the locals will tell you that midwinter provides the best of them ) the view reaches as far as the Vosges in France and Switzerland 's Jura .
7 The film capital is a huge sprawling city which seems to stretch indefinitely in all directions ; they even said that the outskirts of Los Angeles reached as far as San Francisco !
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