Example sentences of "and reach for a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Earlier , avoiding Matey 's compressed lips , he had picked up the whisky bottle and reached for a glass — anything , so long as he achieved oblivion , surcease from pain — and then he had heard her voice again , in the corridor at the church hall , mockingly telling him to retreat to it . |
| 2 | She turned out the light and reaching for a pitchfork crept towards the tack room . |
| 3 | Talbot nodded and reached for a phone . |
| 4 | Butler stubbed out his cigar in an ashtray and reached for a telephone on the table beside him . |
| 5 | Feeling unusually low and depressed from a bout of hay fever , Johnson did the natural thing and reached for a couple of Reactivins . |
| 6 | Schneider draped a sheet about his shoulders and reached for a pair of scissors . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Carol sighed and reached for a tissue from the bedside table . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Jazzbeaux threw the wig into the toilet , and reached for a towel . |
| 12 | She turned off the shower and reached for a towel . |
| 13 | Hatchard put down his notebook and ballpoint and reached for a cigarette . |