Example sentences of "and reach for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Earlier , avoiding Matey 's compressed lips , he had picked up the whisky bottle and reached for a glass — anything , so long as he achieved oblivion , surcease from pain — and then he had heard her voice again , in the corridor at the church hall , mockingly telling him to retreat to it . |
| 2 | ‘ I should have guessed , ’ Werner replied , and reached for the numerical keys . |
| 3 | She turned out the light and reaching for a pitchfork crept towards the tack room . |
| 4 | I am letting go of the past , and reaching for the future . |
| 5 | Carson let the door swing behind him , hurrying through into the sitting room and reaching for the receiver . |
| 6 | He tried to catch the attendant 's eye but the man was already turning away and reaching for the nozzle of the pump hose . |
| 7 | Well , she 'd simply have to find the strength within herself to resist that power , she decided grimly , rising to her feet and reaching for the long black dress she 'd laid out earlier to change into . |
| 8 | An unmarked Ford Escort pulled out from the kerb slow enough to give me plenty of time to ease up and reach for the horn . |
| 9 | She had neither the energy nor the time to feel irritated ; instead she took out her pen again and reached for a sheet of the museum 's paper . |
| 10 | Feeling unusually low and depressed from a bout of hay fever , Johnson did the natural thing and reached for a couple of Reactivins . |
| 11 | Butler stubbed out his cigar in an ashtray and reached for a telephone on the table beside him . |
| 12 | Returning to my dressing room , I removed my headdress and reached for a towel to dry my sweat-soaked hair — fighting with seven dwarfs under banks of spotlights is hot work . |
| 13 | At the crash from the front door he came out of his chair and reached for a twelve-bore shotgun that lay on the pine table . |
| 14 | Jazzbeaux threw the wig into the toilet , and reached for a towel . |
| 15 | Talbot nodded and reached for a phone . |
| 16 | Carol sighed and reached for a tissue from the bedside table . |
| 17 | And reached for a heavy key and turned the lock . |
| 18 | ‘ And first of all , I 'm going to climb through the window , ’ she said and reached for a stack of sacking which had been thrown down near the wall and which , piled carefully , might enable her to reach the sill . |
| 19 | She turned off the shower and reached for a towel . |
| 20 | He flicked a switch on the percolator , which was set up in a recess above one of the work-benches , and reached for a fresh mug . |
| 21 | The soldier grinned and reached for a half-smoked cigarette behind the earflap of his fur hat . |
| 22 | Hatchard put down his notebook and ballpoint and reached for a cigarette . |
| 23 | Schneider draped a sheet about his shoulders and reached for a pair of scissors . |
| 24 | He brooded for a moment , sighed , and reached for the list again . |
| 25 | She dropped the other gun — the little one — into the pocket of her jacket and reached for the wooden grip of the Kalashnikov . |
| 26 | Jackie stood up and reached for the bottle . |
| 27 | ‘ Oh bother ! ’ she allowed herself a wee expletive and reached for the telephone daintily with whitened fingers . |
| 28 | An elderly lady who had once asked Franz Liszt for his autograph , felt quite faint as Fred took off his kilt and reached for the laces of his boots . |
| 29 | ‘ Of course , ’ Kegan said and reached for the intercom on his desk . |
| 30 | She pursed her lips and reached for the next letter on the pile of personal correspondence brought in by her secretary . |