Example sentences of "[noun pl] and reached [art] " in BNC.

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1 It stepped slowly towards Tallis , crouched with much rustling and snapping of sinews and reached a long , tapering twig-finger to touch her hand .
2 At the Northern Championships the same year she won the doubles and reached the singles final , in which she extended Maud Watson , the reigning Wimbledon champion , to 8–6 7–5 .
3 As dawn broke yesterday , the same group , this time led by a mother with a baby in arms , faced down the police patrols and reached the embassy successfully .
4 He scored three , three and four off his first three deliveries and reached a delightful 50 from 68 balls .
5 Bernard Callinan came out of Dili with the Dutch headquarters between two files of their native troops and reached the Company positions at Three Spurs above the port ( see map p. 77 ) .
6 He made his way across the first set of tracks and reached the tail-end of a dozen coal-laden wagons .
7 Last season United watched Schmeichel regularly as Brondby won the Danish title for the fourth time in five years and reached the semi-finals of the UEFA Cup .
8 ‘ Instead , they have shared their hopes and fears and reached a deep understanding of their situation .
9 Where the degree course and the HNC/HND course are designed to form a continuous integrated programme and where students by the end of the second year or the equivalent stage have not only achieved the SCOTVEC award but also satisfied the objectives and reached the standard required by CNAA for that stage of a degree course , students may take one further academic year of full-time study for a Degree and two further academic years of full-time study for an Honours Degree ( or the part-time equivalents ) .
10 I have done with excuses , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , I have done with excuses towards myself and towards others , that is the meaning of the right time , he wrote , that I have done with excuses , that I have used up all the excuses and reached the bottom of excuses , that I have wrung the neck of excuses , that I have settled the hash of excuses .
11 The history goes back to 1938 , when Mexico took over US and British oil interests and reached a peak in 1975 ; eighty-three acts of expropriation of foreign firms in twenty-eight countries ( UNCTC , 1988a : table XIX-I ) .
12 I moved out of the slings onto smears and reached a one finger vertical slot .
13 Sergeant ran ahead of the others and reached the garden first .
14 PUSHED his way through police cordons , CLAMBERED inside one of the mangled carriages and REACHED a screaming man who had a bone sticking out of his ripped trousers .
15 He padded past the other cell doors and reached the door at the end of the corridor — massive , clenched together with square-headed nails .
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