Example sentences of "reach [adv prt] [conj] [vb infin] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She wanted to reach out and hold him to her , to draw him close and comfort him , but it was too late now . |
| 2 | He wanted to reach out and wrap her in his arms , to hold her tight and comfort her , but he had been wrong before . |
| 3 | Yet , though she longed to flee from him , to put huge distances between them , there was something drawing her , some mystery in him that seemed to reach out and take her in its clutches . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Already Parfois seemed to lie behind them , and Harry had almost lost that tense expectation that at every step someone would reach out and take him by the shoulder to haul him back into captivity . |