Example sentences of "by the [noun] [pron] reach " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the time we reached Tony it was obvious we would never find a crossing point . |
| 2 | The round still proves the soundest of methods : even given limited rehearsal time , there was much security in the warm-up sequence , a point surprisingly made with This Little Babe from Britten 's A Ceremony Of Carols , and by the time we reached Runswick 's final party ensemble not a single face on stage I could see registered anything less than complete involvement . |
| 3 | Night had fallen by the time we reached the centre of Barcelona . |
| 4 | By the time we reached the airfield next morning a tropical storm was raging . |
| 5 | By the time we reached the encore , a stunning ‘ I Know It 's Over ’ , 12 thousand people had been smacked into moronic submission . |
| 6 | There was no sign of this Devil 's Ridge and by the time we reached the summit of Sgor an Iubhair I was imagining a knife edge of rock , hanging above an abyss full of red scaly demons , holding pitch forks and hissing to one another , ‘ She has n't got the security of a rope . ’ |
| 7 | By the time we reached the car , Canisp had disappeared amidst the storm . |
| 8 | By the time we reached Amsterdam the man was in a frenzy of preparedness and anxiety , and followed me down the platform with his rifle in my back . |
| 9 | By the time we reached the Ava Bridge it had stopped raining and having got across , we just lay on the ground and got a few hours ' sleep . |
| 10 | He immediately rang the Oxford Mission sisters , and by the time we reached them in a taxi they had beds prepared and a doctor called , and in two days Mig was well again . |
| 11 | But by the time we reached the foot of the fixed ropes it suddenly changed , with the wind dropping and the snow stopping . |
| 12 | By the time we reached Llanberis it was touch and go whether we would make it back to base at all that night . |
| 13 | By the time we reached the rock promontory from which the classic view of Wen Zawn is obtained , the mist was slowly being burned away and the sun was rapidly drying out that awesome looking slab . |
| 14 | By the time we reached the testing manoeuvres on pitch four and the wickedly smooth layaways on pitch five , we were staring benightment in the face . |
| 15 | We were in a typical winter low pressure region which meant that we reached maximum manifold height fairly quickly , and by the time we reached 7,000 feet air traffic control had obviously got the message and asked us whether we were able to accept a higher level . |
| 16 | It was nearly daylight by the time we reached the summit . |
| 17 | By the time we reached the volcano 's outer lip it was deafeningly noisy . |
| 18 | By the time we reached the Red Fort we had hit a traffic jam . |
| 19 | Anyway , by the time we reached our chambers my anger had been replaced by sheer terror at the danger we had just escaped . |
| 20 | By the time we reached Totnes , in Devon , we had abandoned ourselves to our despair . |
| 21 | The PR lady had thankfully disappeared by the time we reached the Wigmore Street entrance to St Christopher 's Place , which was probably just as well . |
| 22 | By the time we reach home , God willing , he will be able to contribute to the court music . |
| 23 | By the time we reach the second set of interviews , where the question of retirement was clarified , only a quarter of the grandfathers are remembered as still at work in old age . |
| 24 | Very soon this rigidity starts to restrict movements and by the time we reach old age we can barely get around . |
| 25 | Almost all of us start life with trouble-free feet , but by the time we reach 20 , there are inevitably some problems . |
| 26 | By the time we reach the end of the scene we see that this is how it is , for the fulsome praisers of their father put aside their hypocrisy and , left alone with each other , and with us , reveal their true nature , moving down from inflated verse to coldly pragmatic prose : They are not only cold and censorious — ‘ unruly waywardness … infirm and choleric years … unconstant starts ’ — but end by planning some form of counteraction : ‘ We shall further think on it ’ — ‘ We must do something , and i ’ th' heat' ( 307f . ) . |
| 27 | By the time we reach the mid-twenties a distinct and enduring pattern will have developed and that pattern will last for many years . |
| 28 | By the time we reach primary seven , and I am ten , my class has become preoccupied with sex . |
| 29 | At birth , the heart races along at 140 beats a minute , but by the time we reach adulthood the rate has dropped to 70 beats a minute . |
| 30 | Henry 's voice-over adds an amusing counterpoint to the visuals but by the time we reach his eventual arrest , on drugs charges , in '81 , Scorsese 's frenetic cross-cutting seems to leave the original premise — presumably , the mob 's seductive potency — somewhere in the sidings . |