"thought of reaching" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it any time you want to talk about the idea of obtaining some goal or thing. For example, "She thought of reaching the top of the mountain as a personal challenge."
Throughout my medical training, I always thought of reaching a destination as the goal - graduating from medical school, completing residency and fellowship - and then I would feel like a doctor.
But now there's hope: this year, scientists demonstrated that monkeys, properly trained and specially wired, can channel the mere thought of reaching and grasping into the actual reaching and grasping of a surrogate robotic arm.
So many campers look at our climbing wall, and shiver at the thought of reaching the top.
But if I'm having a regular day or the thought of reaching for my headphones is too daunting, I take a few minutes to look at the people around me.
He is the kind of guy who would never think of reaching across someone's plate and snaring a chicken leg on the dinner table.
But from a shamanic point of view it is redundant to think of reaching out to build teams, alliances and communities, as we are already all connected.
Before the transitional period deadline of June 30 of this year, the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) and the ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) (once thought of having reached a power-sharing understanding) are squabbling as to who will have the upper hand after the transition.
Think of reaching out and sliding your forearms across a tabletop".
I think of you reaching your star, while your words here in this world make you immortal, and I am inspired.
But all I could think of was reaching my family.
"When we made it we didn't think of it reaching beyond the four walls in which we were making it.
