Example sentences of "[conj] reached for a [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Talbot nodded and reached for a phone . |
2 | Butler stubbed out his cigar in an ashtray and reached for a telephone on the table beside him . |
3 | Feeling unusually low and depressed from a bout of hay fever , Johnson did the natural thing and reached for a couple of Reactivins . |
4 | Schneider draped a sheet about his shoulders and reached for a pair of scissors . |
5 | ‘ 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 . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | Carol sighed and reached for a tissue from the bedside table . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | Jazzbeaux threw the wig into the toilet , and reached for a towel . |
10 | She turned off the shower and reached for a towel . |
11 | Hatchard put down his notebook and ballpoint and reached for a cigarette . |