1.   I began to shuffle forward, hands stretched out in front.

2.   She stretched her hand toward him.

3.   When she heard him coming through she pulled the shower curtain more firmly shut and stretched her hand round the edge.

4.   Only when she stretched out a hand to replace her own receiver did Fabia realise that she was shaking.

5.   Athelstan stretched his hand out to the flames.

6.   But that did not stop New Englanders from stretching a hand across a boundary that seemed to disappear in the catastrophe.

7.   Cleaver watched as onlookers desperately stretched their hands toward the president.

8.   He climbed down from the cab in the darkness and stretched a hand into the mechanical innards of the powerful machine, trying to sweep away the excess grain.

9.   On the roof of one mobile home, a group prayed loudly in the dark, their leader stretching his hands to the heavens as the police gathered below.

10.   The harder China now tries to lean on Taiwan, the harder it will be for Chen to stretch a hand across the Taiwan Strait.