Example sentences of "never reached [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is as though he continued to play with toys all his life and never reached maturity . |
| 2 | Alison is eighteen and has , as she puts it in her long letter , ‘ never reached adolescence ’ . |
| 3 | The extraordinary irony was that the original case against Russell never reached fruition . |
| 4 | Joyce began work on the book — which was to have been a series of short stories based on Irish history and mythology — in 1923 , but the project never reached fruition and was abandoned a year later . |
| 5 | The other is that George shot Lennie because Lennie would have either gone to jail where Lennie could not have coped , or been shot by Curley and never reached heaven with his dreams fulfilled . |
| 6 | Since the beginning of September until this week there has been practically no rain , and the wind has never reached gale force , so the leaves have stayed on the trees far longer than usual , with a constantly changing pattern of glorious colour . |