Example sentences of "they [verb] reached the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 'd reached the turning into the Square . |
| 2 | And as he had n't at first referred to the wedding-dress , last night or until they 'd reached the spinney that morning , so he did n't refer now to the fantasies of Timothy Gedge that were turning out not to be fantasies at all . |
| 3 | They 'd reached the door of the apartment before she broke the silence . |
| 4 | They 'd reached the end of the pool and Tim flipped over dramatically under the water . |
| 5 | What if he was to fall here , before they 'd reached the loft ? |
| 6 | They 'd reached the trees now . |
| 7 | They 'd reached the side of the boat and Guido 's hands were at her waist , about to hoist her up on board . |
| 8 | They 'll accept , but only because they feel they 've reached the end of the line . |
| 9 | They had reached the bar . |
| 10 | They had reached the top of the hill when they heard the first soul-chilling , baying call . |
| 11 | Slowly they moved on up the slope , using the trees for protection , watching and listening until they had reached the top , and open ground . |
| 12 | Through eyes watering from smoke and dust Isabel saw daylight and the castle entrance and knew they had reached the guard-room . |
| 13 | They had reached the grave , and Ace obediently turned to face the crowd , so that they could n't see her freed hands , which had previously been hidden by Petion 's body . |
| 14 | They had reached the door , and the motor was waiting to convey them back to Hampstead . |
| 15 | They had reached the door of his room now and , as Harry opened it , Madeleine went past him and sat down on the edge of his old brass bedstead . |
| 16 | They had reached the centre of Haslemere now and their progress had slowed amidst a tangle of straying pedestrians and lumbering delivery vans . |
| 17 | They had reached the beginning of Western Road and were passing the Cork & Muskerry Railway station . |
| 18 | They had reached the beginning of the wood and still neither had spoken . |
| 19 | By early evening they had reached the documentary department offices on the second floor and in one desk , at the back of an open drawer , was the pair of scissors . |
| 20 | They had reached the apartment block and there was a café below it with white metal tables and chairs out on the street . |
| 21 | Ranulf laughed and baited him , Corbett heard him out until they had reached the jetty at Dalmeny . |
| 22 | They had reached the green . |
| 23 | Right down to the middle of the nineteenth century travellers to Aswan felt they had reached the limits of civilization . |
| 24 | Pliny knew of the Burgundians , and Orosius thought that they had reached the Rhineland in the days of the emperor Tiberius , receiving their name because they lived in settlements called burgi . |
| 25 | He would just have to walk , openly , away from the main body of the school , get downwind of Maisie , stalk her carefully , and , when they had reached the birch-trees on the other side of Cannizaro Road , creep up on her and leap out at her when she was n't looking . |
| 26 | He was showing his wife , a Wren in the war , around London landmarks , and they had reached the Cenotaph , where the flagstaffs were being touched up with gold paint for Armistice Day . |
| 27 | But now that they had reached the road at the dale head , he wanted to turn down it and go home . |
| 28 | But before they had reached the back gate a few drops of rain had already plopped warningly on their heads . |
| 29 | They had been friends for eight long years , and now they had reached the parting of the ways . |
| 30 | They had resumed their walk as they talked , and now they had reached the village . |