Example sentences of "could reach out [coord] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was extremely difficult to know what to do with a giant who loped along at your side and who could reach out and pluck you from your horse 's back with one hand . |
| 2 | Before he could reach out and stab him as he planned , and then kill his companion too , and with support from his companions , seize the cannon himself , he heard a scream of pain behind him and realised that another of his fellow fighters had fallen from the ring fence on to the ground . |
| 3 | All around the fences , the parked cars and the neat roofs was that weird stuff you get just before dawn in the suburbs — it is n't light or darkness but some other thing entirely — shadowy , ghostly , but so much itself you feel you could reach out and run it through your fingers . |
| 4 | It was so close that I felt I could reach out and touch her . |
| 5 | Thus death has been ever close to me — so close that it seemed to me at times that I could reach out and touch it . |
| 6 | One can understand a steam locomotive appearing wreathed in smoke and surplus steam to fascinate the unsuspecting person and seemingly so solid that one could reach out and touch it , but a Deltic ? |