Example sentences of "reach out and touch [pron] " in BNC.

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1 And afterwards , for a second she had felt him relax against her , his body spent , his feelings so near the surface she could almost reach out and touch them , and then he had wrenched himself away from her and the defences had gone slamming back up , shutting her out .
2 It was so close that I felt I could reach out and touch her .
3 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 .
4 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 ?
5 ‘ You can just reach out and touch it here , ’ he said .
6 But Neil Fraser could n't reach out and touch his wife .
7 If I could just reach out and touch your face …
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