Example sentences of "he reach for a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He reaches for a booklet and starts to flip through it . |
| 2 | He reaches for a plastic bag . |
| 3 | ‘ That 's where you 're wrong , ’ I said as he reached for a pen . |
| 4 | He reached for a half loaf of bread with both hands and said , by the six hairs of his grandmother 's beard , they were doing very well out of all this . |
| 5 | He reached for a sheet of paper , picked up a pen and began writing . |
| 6 | He reached for a can . |
| 7 | He reached for a bunch of thick white stalks with plump purple bulbs . |
| 8 | He reached for a cup and poured himself coffee . |
| 9 | He reached for a cigarette and lit it . |
| 10 | And he looks a lot better for the change , although I have to tell you that by the time I had grilled him for an hour and tested him out on the snooker table I did notice that he reached for a cigarette . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He reached for a piece of notepaper . |
| 13 | Stimulated by Gould 's remarks , he reached for a piece of paper lying near to hand — presumably one that was being drawn on by one of the zoological draughtsmen working at the Society at the time — and proceeded to write on the reverse side of the drawing . |
| 14 | ‘ Ice ? ’ he enquired , as he reached for a glass and Shiona seated herself in one of the armchairs . |
| 15 | Panels lit up and he reached for a number of X-ray plates which he attached to the luminescent plastic . |
| 16 | He reached for a corner of my apron . |
| 17 | " But there was a time long ago when the cassowary could fly as well as the bower-bird. " the old man rumbled as he reached for a sweetcorn in the cinders . |
| 18 | He reached for a towel . |
| 19 | ‘ It 's just — ’ he reached for a paperclip to fiddle with — ‘ I — we 've been thinking . |