Example sentences of "and 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 .
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