Example sentences of "he reached the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Don Shears ( Avon ) moved up to the 55 age group where , seeded number 4 following his unbeaten run in the Dubler Cup , he reached the semi-final to give the ultimate runner-up , Gordon Davis ( USA ) a tough fight after battling through three exhausting rounds . |
| 2 | The result , therefore , is a framed narrative without a frame narrator — not that he reached the two sides of this conclusion simultaneously . |
| 3 | As more East Germans joined the cries for help , the diplomat burst through the front door and sprinted 300 yards around the embassy perimeter until he reached the grotesque tug-of-war . |
| 4 | He found the experience of working in a wide variety of company departments invaluable and believes it held him in good stead when he reached the higher echelons of management . |
| 5 | As he had done in the first round , he reached the green and they got their par . |
| 6 | John McLeish rose to go but was recalled as he reached the door . |
| 7 | In February it was unanimously agreed that Sir Denys should continue as boss until he reached the retirement age of 62 , making him the longest-serving chairman since Sir Paul Chambers , who ran — and dominated — the company from 1960 to 1968 . |
| 8 | First time he got on a tractor — when he reached the end of the field he shouted ‘ Whoa ! ’ ’ |
| 9 | When he reached the stone he stood looking at it , shifting it with his foot . |
| 10 | He ran up through the quarry and climbed over the gate into the field with the ewes and the new lambs , then up the side of the wood till he reached the gate into it . |
| 11 | He skirted the branch that lay across the path and carried on till he reached the feeding-place . |
| 12 | When he reached the house , he leant his bike against the fence and opened the gate . |
| 13 | He closed the door behind him and walked slowly down the corridor until he reached the top of the marble staircase , passing his own office and Pat Muldoon 's without wishing to take a last look . |
| 14 | From school I knew this parable by heart , and I think the reader must have known it too , because as he reached the concluding sentences , his frail hands were already feeling for the embroidered marker and preparing to close the great heavy book , so that his eyes were not on the page but were gazing unseeing into mine as he spoke the final well-worn words , ‘ Then said Jesus unto him , ‘ Go , and do thou likewise . ’ ’ |
| 15 | When he reached the first breakwater , Simon turned and waved . |
| 16 | Once outside , he did n't stop running until he reached the end of the street . |
| 17 | When he reached the last machine he went back to the beginning and played them all again . |
| 18 | Did the runner bringing the news from the battlefield run straight past him when he reached the town ? |
| 19 | When , turning , he reached the part about finding it behind the standing stone , he revealed the gleaming decoration . |
| 20 | He hugged the banister , counting its bar-like wooden rods until he reached the turn where it met the wall . |
| 21 | He was not sure if he should tip-toe slowly and cautiously along until he reached the lower grounds of Old Ashfield , or make a sudden dash for it in the hope of outrunning any danger that might be waiting to pounce . |
| 22 | He reached the kitchen door just as a bright rectangle of light slowly spread across the upstairs wall . |
| 23 | He reached the door again . |
| 24 | When he reached the ground he stood facing the trunk , unwilling to turn round . |
| 25 | That satisfaction would smartly have evaporated when he reached the clearing and found me gone . |
| 26 | Then he reached the first green of the tournament proper — rather than the first green of the practice rounds . |
| 27 | Then , after he had earned his professional ticket , he reached the final of the 1989 Asian Open in Bangkok — and caused the evening news bulletin to be delayed by prime ministerial decree . |
| 28 | Just as he reached the top step I gave him a push — not a hard push , just defensive . |
| 29 | He reached the bottom first and the teapot , a close second , hit him on the head and smashed , spilling luke-warm tea down his navy-blue shirt . |
| 30 | He looked around him as he went ; but he did not slow down much until he reached the culvert . |