Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] hand " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was grateful to him because I was really shaking with fear , so much so that poor Dawn could hardly sit up straight on my hand . |
| 2 | When someone protests at his callousness he says ‘ Would you rather my hand shook ? ’ . |
| 3 | It could not get hold of me and stifle me ; for it would employ only my hands and a certain section of my knowledge ; the rest of me would be free : after office hours my escape would be absolute ; and then the holidays would enable me , according to my powers and my wishes , to live another life as different as that of Jekyll from that of Hyde . |
| 4 | Sometimes in the Cauldhame Arms I stand up at the urinal , but most if it ends up running down my hands or legs . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , after ten minutes or so my hand on Karen 's knee was starting to feel like one lump of meat resting on another . |
| 6 | Perhaps their hands had touched . |
| 7 | She tried not to imagine his sympathetic brown eyes looking into hers , and his disarming smile when she spoke to him , perhaps their hands touching as she passed him the local anaesthetic — This is no use ! she admonished herself , rubbing energetically at a stainless steel trolley . |
| 8 | Suddenly her hand was pointing as she called , ‘ Mamma ! |
| 9 | Suddenly her hand lashed out and slapped his face . |
| 10 | She knew only that suddenly her hand was upraised , that his shot out with lightning speed and caught it in mid-air . |
| 11 | Only her hand was between the revolver and his childish face looking of at her , tears streaming on his plump cheeks . |
| 12 | She moved her arms and legs , only her hands were restrained . |
| 13 | She works in the shop from 9 am until 5 pm , but as she awaits the infrequent customers she is not idle ; she cuts her cloth and does all her hand sewing . |
| 14 | AIB engineers are not afraid of getting their hands dirty ; in fact , they claim that they are lucky on most occasions if it is only their hands . |
| 15 | Margery was sitting on the bed holding a bottle of Guinness that foamed all down her hand and wrist . |
| 16 | Feverishly her hands fumbled with the waistband of his trousers , desperate to give him the pleasure he was giving her . |
| 17 | They waited for the priest to pass along with the thin wafer of bread and while they did so their hands were like this , cupped and raised in a gesture that might be offering or receiving . |
| 18 | So her hands were up and they were off before I knew where they were . |
| 19 | Suddenly his hands closed over her arms . |
| 20 | Suddenly his hand was on my shoulder . |
| 21 | Suddenly his hand moved , fastening around one slender wrist so tightly that Isabel 's bones cracked . |
| 22 | His nearness was making her uneasy , then suddenly his hand came down on hers , halting its movements , sending her gaze flying up to meet his . |
| 23 | He was unusually distrait as he buttered a slice of toast and cut into one of the rashers on his plate , then after a minute 's thoughtful chewing he brought down his hand on the table with a suddenness that made me jump . |
| 24 | He brought down his hand , like a guillotine blade , on the baluster rail . |
| 25 | Her looks nailed down his hands his wrists his elbows |
| 26 | As he did so his hand accidentally brushed against her bare leg , and suddenly she was aware of how little difference there was between the shorts she was wearing now and the swimsuit she had worn earlier . |
| 27 | In The ale of the Flopsy Bunnies , Beatrix Potter ( 1909 ) indicates the presence of Mr McGregor in two illustrations by showing only his boots ( pp.27 and 28 ) and by only his hands in another ( p.31 ) . |
| 28 | A pastel picture exploded into view , of a pink-skinned adolescent immobilised in a steel framework , with only his hands fully exposed . |
| 29 | Melanie moved again and saw Francie , like a statue of a fiddler , with only his hands alive . |
| 30 | Instinctively her hand reached for a light switch . |