Example sentences of "[vb past] reached [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was obvious she 'd reached breaking-point . |
| 2 | " What a shame to lose him , though , " said Dandelion , " just when we 'd reached Fiver 's hills without losing anyone . |
| 3 | For many men in the groups , losing their virginity was proof they 'd reached adulthood . |
| 4 | The dark bulk of buildings on his right gave way to emptiness , and he knew he 'd reached Princess Street . |
| 5 | They 'd reached harbour . |
| 6 | She had reached London at the height of the rush . |
| 7 | The supply ship should be on its way , it should be arriving within a month , if the news had reached London safely . |
| 8 | Jesus was on his way to Jerusalem and had reached Jericho . |
| 9 | In 1980 new bank and building society lending was £15.7billion and by 1988 it had reached £82billion . |
| 10 | Thucydides , unusually , mentions a security breach ( iv.42 ) : advance intelligence about an Athenian attack had reached Corinth via Argos . |
| 11 | Some Bf109Es from l/JG 27 had reached Sicily on their way to Libya , and while on the island undertook one or two flights over Malta in company with the resident unit . |
| 12 | By 1990 the firm 's profits had reached £47m , thanks partly to the launch of a long-life battery to rival Duracell 's . |
| 13 | Nellie Tanner had reached Aggie 's front door and she stood over the dumpy , dark-haired woman . |
| 14 | By the time the van had reached Hyde Park Corner and began heading north up the Park Lane carriageway , Ashi Nadirpur and her daughter had both lost consciousness . |
| 15 | About then , word came from Salines , three hours away , to inform Nicholas that the Venetian sugar ship had reached Alexandria and would be leaving soon for Episkopi to pick up the combined Cypriot cargo . |
| 16 | Most of them involved ‘ killings committed impulsively with whatever means were at hand ’ , usually by ‘ men in their 60s or 70s [ who ] had reached breaking point under the continuing strain of looking after wives with severe mental or physical illness ’ . |
| 17 | By 1956 , East-West tensions had reached breaking point . |
| 18 | By the time they had reached Morocco , the Shah and the Queen both believed that Giscard had betrayed them personally at Guadeloupe . |
| 19 | Kian fingered the hole that his own father had pierced through the fleshy part of his nose between the nostrils when Kian had reached manhood . |
| 20 | By the time we had reached Skala Maries and turned inland , I had mastered the gear changes sufficiently for Beth to relax the vice-like grip she had on my waist and enjoy the scenery . |
| 21 | Equally enthusiastic was Pehr Kalm , who arrived at Kingsessing three days after he had reached Philadelphia in 1748 , also with a letter of introduction from Collinson . |
| 22 | They had reached Camden Town , blue and cream , another shabby bathroom . |
| 23 | Iain had been telling us how ten to fifteen thousand years ago early man had crossed from Mongolia to Alaska by way of the Aleutian chain of volcanic islands and then , over a period of some five millennia , had worked his way down through North and South America until finally he had reached Tierra del Fuego , living out the winters virtually naked except for the natural hair of his body . |
| 24 | The set had reached deuce when Mrs Beattie decided to go for the advantage point . |
| 25 | The twenty-six canisters had reached Paris via a flight to Edinburgh organized by one Frank Foley — a train journey down the length of Britain , and a ship across the Channel . |
| 26 | Powered by two General Motors diesels , each 645 hp , they had reached speeds well in excess of twenty knots on trials , and being also good seaboats they seemed eminently suitable for our purposes . |
| 27 | Not because they had reached land , the line of tall thin houses beyond the quay , but because they had docked in French . |
| 28 | The yield from the clothes had reached Fulham by sunrise . |
| 29 | He did not register much surprise at this important discovery , but it needs to be borne in mind that he supposed that he had reached islands near the eastern shores of Asia rather than a land mass inaccessible to the descendents of Noah ! |
| 30 | Meanwhile , after the Greeks had reached Ferrara , Eugenius was forced to transfer the meeting to Florence . |