Example sentences of "reached for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He reached for a more conventional musical palette , strings and woodwinds . |
| 3 | ‘ Maybe , ’ he said , sitting on her side of the bed as she reached for a woman 's magazine , ‘ maybe I 'm gay ! ’ |
| 4 | Feeling unusually low and depressed from a bout of hay fever , Johnson did the natural thing and reached for a couple of Reactivins . |
| 5 | Once or twice , Jack had casually goosed her as she reached for a file . |
| 6 | Butler stubbed out his cigar in an ashtray and reached for a telephone on the table beside him . |
| 7 | Theresa led the way , between grass almost knee-high bordered by a riot of unpruned roses , to the porch , then reached for a key hung high on a nail , less , Dalgliesh supposed , for security reasons than to ensure that it was n't lost . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 10 | And Jean reached for a monkey-wrench that lay nearby . |
| 11 | Picking the glass away from the display , she reached for a squirter of morph-plus . |
| 12 | Jazzbeaux threw the wig into the toilet , and reached for a towel . |
| 13 | He reached for a can . |
| 14 | At which she reached for a bottle of whisky called Old Rarity . |
| 15 | He reached for a corner of my apron . |
| 16 | Talbot reached for a phone and got through to Van Gelder . |
| 17 | Talbot nodded , reached for a phone , asked the exchange for the sick bay and was through immediately . |
| 18 | Talbot nodded and reached for a phone . |
| 19 | Hesitantly he approached her , reached for a little canister . |
| 20 | His dogs looked as if they might be dangerous and so Coetzee reached for a tried and tested method for solving the problem — strychnine . |
| 21 | Later , seated dizzily at the desk in his study , he reached for a piece of paper to write some orders for the defence of the banqueting hall . |
| 22 | The policewoman reached for a form . |
| 23 | And with petulant little movements of her lips and eyes , she challenged them ; then reached for a cigarette , and lit it , and blew out thick smoke in irritation . |
| 24 | She reached for a sip of water . |
| 25 | He reached for a bunch of thick white stalks with plump purple bulbs . |
| 26 | Impatiently she reached for a tissue and wiped it off . |
| 27 | flesh of her upper arm hung down when she reached for a cigarette , but it scarcely mattered . |
| 28 | The woman rolled over on to her stomach , reached for a bottle of wine , handed it to the man . |
| 29 | She adjusted her half-moon glasses , reached for a document to her left , held it out to him ; all without looking up . |
| 30 | Carol sighed and reached for a tissue from the bedside table . |