Example sentences of "[noun sg] [coord] reached for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hatchard put down his notebook and ballpoint and reached for a cigarette . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | She turned off the shower and reached for a towel . |
| 6 | Butler stubbed out his cigar in an ashtray and reached for a telephone on the table beside him . |