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Example sentences for "had reached"

  • Macklin came up, saw me, and swam under water until he had reached my legs; then he hove me off and took my place.

  • A zig-zag pathway, well known to both of them, led downwards through an opening in the cliff, a short distance from the spot they had reached.

  • What they were going to do with him he could not tell; whether they would recross the river or remain on the side he had reached.

  • We had reached the 21st of March, a period of the year when a decided thaw was not only ominous to the sleighing, but when it actually predicted a permanent breaking up of the winter.

  • This, indeed, formed our danger, after we had reached it.

  • I had reached my purpose, and writing a new novel was no longer up for discussion.

  • He happened to come my way on the street and stopped, once he had reached me.

  • Reports, from time to time, had reached Pizarro of warriors on his track; and small bodies of Indians were occasionally seen like dusky clouds on the verge of the horizon, which vanished as the Spaniards approached.

  • We had reached Thiescourt, a hillside village that had thought never to be threatened by the Germans again.

  • We had reached a ruined wall now, and there was still no opening in the wire.

  • We had reached a sunken portion of the road, when above us began the deep steady drone of Boche aeroplanes.

  • Eugène had reached Bruck in Styria, and was therefore at hand; Marmont with ten thousand men was called from Illyria.

  • Davout was on the left toward the river Laber, Lefebvre, with the Bavarians and several French divisions, was in the center beyond the river Aben, while Masséna had reached a point beyond Moosburg.

  • His conduct of the movement was masterly, and on February sixth, though the French columns were not far behind, he had reached Heilsberg.

  • Lestocq, coming up with his Prussians, had reached Rositten, between nine and ten miles away, where he received orders to hurry onward.

  • The submarine issue, in fact, had reached a stage where explanations and excuses were of minor importance.

  • It did not, however, at any time or place assume the same strength which it had reached by that time at many points along the Russo-German front, north of the Pripet Marshes.

  • The center of the Russian right wing was forced back continuously until it had reached a line almost twenty-five miles east of its former positions.

  • Berthould imagined that he had reached perfection, but his watch had still to be tested by the trial of a long sea voyage.

  • All I had to do was to follow the direction whence the sound had reached me; and logically putting it, I must reach him if my strength did not fail.

  • As I had been very careful to keep account of an the changes of cord which took place, I was able to tell exactly what was the depth we had reached, as well as the time it had taken.

  • He had reached to a certain extent the goal of his desires, and yet he was likely to be wrecked in port.

  • The performance with the cord recommenced, and a quarter of an hour later we had reached to the depth of another two hundred feet.

  • We had reached a spot where the rocks said in unmistakable accents--No Thoroughfare.

  • Cayambola in three days, and we had reached a spot of slight, well-rounded undulations where grazing was fair.

  • The large proportion of cultivated land which had impressed me so much in the vicinity of Riberão Preto gradually diminished; and at sunset, by the time we had reached Batataes, only 48 kil.

  • It was indeed with a bleeding heart--when I had reached a point some 200 kil.

  • When we had reached a point of comparative safety we had to readjust all the loads on the pack-saddles, which had almost come undone.

  • Mark, wondering if he had reached a crossroad in his progress, accepted the invitation, and prepared himself reverently to hear the will of God.

  • His arguments were really hasty foot-notes to his convictions; if each one had separately been proved wrong, that would have had no influence on the point of view he had reached.

  • Together we raced for the crest of the spit; but even before we had reached it the terrible truth lay plain before us.

  • It had reached a place at which it could be terminated only by the disarming, the death, or the disabling of one of us.

  • I had reached the Hôtel de Bourbon, when I heard, behind me, the sound of footsteps in accord.

  • I had reached twenty-one without having been deeply in love.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    clear glass; custard made; find fault; good speech; had also; had called; had decided; had felt; had got; had his; had hoped; had just; had loved; had managed; had never heard before; had not been able; had nothing; had picked; had promised; had recourse; had she; had the; had thought; had used; lovely little; mortal mind