Example sentences of "reach up and [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Worse still , she longed to reach up and smooth the ruffled disorder caused by his impatient gesture . |
| 2 | He reaches up and takes the oregano off the spice rack . |
| 3 | They walked regardless of the weather : on early spring mornings when the sky was remote and pale as a plover 's egg ; on stormy autumn afternoons when they felt they could reach up and touch the lowering clouds that covered the land like a bruise ; and on frozen winter days when the sky was a white membrane stretched so tight that they could imagine it cracking with the cold . |
| 4 | She reached up and took the stone out of his hand . |
| 5 | Gabriel reached up and took the apple and bit into it greedily . |
| 6 | At the doorway she reached up and slotted the new dā telo twig between the stones above the lintel . |
| 7 | She reached up and brushed the graze on his cheek . |
| 8 | His hand reached up and brushed the hair back from her face , and then he was kissing her , his lips warm and gentle . |
| 9 | Evelyn hesitated fractionally , then reached up and executed a perfect capital ‘ H ’ . |
| 10 | Haverford reached up and put a hand on the young man 's shoulder . |
| 11 | Woolley reached up and pulled the switch on the air-raid warning . |
| 12 | ‘ Help yourself , Billy , ’ said his uncle , and Billy reached up and pulled an apple from the tree . |
| 13 | Joy Prentice , who had been sitting motionless throughout , reached up and pinched a louse out of her head . |
| 14 | On impulse , Guy reached up and plucked the bud , avoiding the surrounding thorns . |
| 15 | I felt a sharp stab in my head so I reached up and found a piece of hay stuck in my hair , it must have come from the farm . |
| 16 | Looking after her , I saw her reach up and tuck a strand of hair into place before the dark mist swallowed her up . |