Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] hand " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I ai n't yer old sweet'eart , ’ said Mrs Beavis , whose naturally sunny beam did not always shine for everyone , ‘ and I 'appen to be keepin' me hands to meself . ’ |
| 2 | I experienced my hands being numb and slightly swollen , then being pressed or clasped by an unseen force . |
| 3 | The secret I find and you may over the next day or day and a half to a couple of days you may well see me just do that occasionally I 'll just throw my hands back down to me side . |
| 4 | I got my hand on his jaw and forced it open . |
| 5 | On the handshake it was only when I got notified that I 'd been awarded the gold badge , I realized I never got my hand back that day . |
| 6 | ‘ But I got my hand there in a reflex action and it took the worst of it . |
| 7 | But I got my hand there in a reflex action and it took the worst of it . |
| 8 | And he he got he got my hand for five seconds and then I I got I got his hand for ten something like that . |
| 9 | When I got my hands under the protruding portion I realized there was no point in heaving . |
| 10 | I untied the belt of her dressing-gown and got my hands inside . |
| 11 | Back and forth goes my hand , over the softness of my son 's forehead and up into the softness of his hair . |
| 12 | ‘ I do n't want my hands held ! |
| 13 | Do n't want my hands washed . |
| 14 | When , as predicted , he jumped in surprise , I whipped my hand through his legs , giving his whole beanbag a good tug . |
| 15 | You can put them on the and now it stings my hand cos I cos |
| 16 | Next time my instinct for a holiday , as it does in so much else , cries for something hot and cheap , I shall stay my hand . |
| 17 | It was when I was resting my hand on her flank to steady her that I noticed the little swelling under the skin . |
| 18 | ‘ You 're a good girl , ’ she says and pats my hand . |
| 19 | Do you know it was ju , I 've been scrubbing , and scrubbing , and scrubbing my hands ! |
| 20 | Yes , but I , I , I did n't know , I mean I did n't feel that , I just realised my hand was bleeding and the skin 's gone like that , look , the skin 's gone like that . |
| 21 | Perhaps I simply raise my hand . |
| 22 | I raise my hand . |
| 23 | I shouted aloud , then , remembering — where I was , clapped my hand over my mouth . |
| 24 | After a while I sat down at a pavement café table and rather shamefacedly clapped my hands , but produced such a ladylike patter that no one heard me . |
| 25 | After an increasingly eerie half hour of this I clapped my hands together and said , rather abruptly perhaps , " Right then . |
| 26 | I clapped my hands mockingly . |
| 27 | lorries can you count , one , one , one , that 's all we can count , all we one by big and stout , I clapped my hands , and I jump up jump up and turn around and I jump |
| 28 | He squeezes my hand tightly , much the same way as he might wring my heart . |
| 29 | But instead of prevaricating and procrastinating she came over all gooey , stroking my hand and squeezing my arm and saying she did n't want to lose me but she was frightened , frightened and confused , she did n't know what to do . |
| 30 | That means that in addition to walking up the hill with my hands in my pockets , sometimes I scramble up rocks using my hands . |