The first thing to reach her consciousness was the sudden jerk of her own hand flinging the cigarette aside.

I don't know when I heard it first, for the sound of it only gradually reached my consciousness.

Only the last phrase really reached Grant's consciousness.

Then the sound of the warning bell reached his consciousness.

Or that those memories stirred and reached my consciousness ?

If you 'look', you reduce the scope of information reaching your consciousness.

Rhodan's calls only reached his ear but not his consciousness.

His arm grew stiff, and, as if that reached her consciousness, she withdrew her head but did not wake.

The words came to him dimly, and the sensation of hands touching him at last reached his consciousness.

It was thought that these desires are trying to reach the men's consciousness.