Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] [pers pn] reached the " in BNC.
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| 1 | WC apps : 8 Runners-up : 1934 , 1962 The Czechoslovaks have only been seen twice in the tournament proper since they reached the 1962 final and on neither occasion were they able to win a match . |
| 2 | There were two problems , the youngest children 's reading was n't good enough to manage the menu and most were too short to actually see over the tops of the containers on the heated cabinet to make their choice , because of this when they reached the counter they asked to have the same as the child in front making a nonsense of the notion of choice . |
| 3 | It was dark when we reached the boat and we were soaked as we climbed back aboard . |
| 4 | It was dark when they reached the outskirts of Edinburgh . |
| 5 | Concentrating on keeping her gift level and unsquashed she climbed the Casa Guidi stairs carefully , glad when she reached the last bend . |
| 6 | It was even more frightening when we reached the cooler highlands , where at night people would huddle on the road for warmth , barely visible and apparently asleep , yet able to leap dexterously out of our path at the last moment . |
| 7 | She was still brooding as she reached the surgery , which was situated in a superior house of dressed stone set among laurel bushes and bits of lawn . |
| 8 | It was late when they reached the great house , but the moon was full , and the night air was warm and still . |
| 9 | The surface was badly pockmarked and the car bumped and bounced over the uneven thoroughfare , its journey only becoming smoother as they reached the main road that would lead them into Chichester itself . |
| 10 | Unconscious when he reached the water . |
| 11 | It was 5 a.m. when I hit the M1 after leaving Lee at the flat and dropping Max off at his pub , and was quite tired when I reached the cottage at around 7.30 this morning . |
| 12 | The big lift took them up higher and higher until they reached the top floor when it stopped with a little bump . |
| 13 | St Clement 's clock chimed half-past nine as he reached the beginning of Champney Road . |
| 14 | His eyelids fluttered for a second and stayed shut until they reached the ground floor . |
| 15 | The brake lights flared suddenly red as he reached the end . |
| 16 | I was there in September and our group miserably went up the valley from Mayrhofen in the rain and was even more miserable when we reached the summit to find ourselves in a blizzard . |
| 17 | So each one got a little harder as you reached the end of your tour ’ . |
| 18 | They continued their descent until their feet touched the top of the fuselage , half-walked , half-swam until they reached the front of the plane , switched on their flash-lights and looked through the completely shattered windows of the cockpit . |
| 19 | He was almost disappointed when he reached the gates . |
| 20 | ‘ It makes me a lot faster around the court , ’ says the 20-year-old who was unseeded when he reached the semi-final of The Championships two years ago . |
| 21 | His voice grew louder as he reached the crescendo , words labouring against breath . |
| 22 | The baby was awake but fell asleep as they reached the house . |
| 23 | Housman , would lecture on the lyrical poetry of Horace , expounding each text in uncompromising earnest until he reached the seventh ode of the fourth book , " Diffugere nives " . |
| 24 | In fact , I would n't be surprised if we reached the coast today . ’ |
| 25 | He would not , in fact , feel anything special as he reached the critical radius , and could pass the point of no return without noticing it . |
| 26 | He was equally uncommunicative when we reached the airport . |