keep going vs reach for

keep going

verb
  • To proceed; to make progress, physically or figuratively. 

  • To see that (a person) is continually supplied with something, or that they can progress or carry on. 

  • To continue functioning. 

reach for

verb
  • To aspire to achieve. 

  • To try to get (something) by extending one's arm or moving one's hand. 

How often have the words keep going and reach for occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )