Example sentences of "[vb infin] [pron] hand " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ I do n't want my hands held ! |
| 3 | Do n't want my hands washed . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm going to try to speak in the debate in the afternoon , and I 'll need my hand holding . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I would n't soil my hands . |
| 7 | ‘ So I can tie her hands . ’ |
| 8 | Except that we do n't know whose hand . ’ |
| 9 | Better tie his hands , or he might do himself an injury . ’ |
| 10 | At the end of the day the pavements in this area would be covered with corn-samples discarded after a deal had been struck — the farmer would plunge his hand into his pocket , produce a sample which would be carefully examined by the dealer and then onto the ground went the handful to be gratefully devoured in due course by the rapidly growing pigeon population . |
| 11 | D' you need your hand held or something ? ’ |
| 12 | Consequently , unless we are convinced of the possibility of a reductive account of knowledge , let us not tie our hands by refusing to make use of facts that we know to be true . |
| 13 | Do n't drum your hands on the tablecloth , |
| 14 | Yeah a bit cold , are you gon na dry your hands and I 'll put your chair back |
| 15 | ‘ I thought you would n't soil your hands with me ? ’ she asked silkily . |
| 16 | Kleenex was handed round so that we could dry our hands and we settled together for coffee . |
| 17 | It is very unlikely that a solar panel would chop your hand off if you accidentally put it in the wrong place , but the 36 in ( 91cm ) span of the larger wind generators can be deadly . |
| 18 | In Julius Caesar Calphurnia dreamed she saw Caesar 's statue which " like a fountain with an hundred spouts , did run pure blood ; and many lusty Romans came smiling and did bathe their hands in it " . |
| 19 | But Sir George Gardiner , chairman of the right-of-centre 1992 Group of Tories , and Brent North MP Sir Rhodes Boyson have both now said they will throw their hand in with the Prime Minister . |
| 20 | Even the celibate woman who cleans the altar linens , vestments and vessels , must cover her hands when she handles these sacred things , lest she pollute them by her touch . |
| 21 | I ca n't tell anyone , she thought ; people would n't believe me , they 'd just pat my hand and give me tranquillizers . |
| 22 | ‘ You know that you can not do my hand , ’ says Isabelle , ‘ they will see it at work . |
| 23 | " When I holed the putt to win , I could n't even feel my hands . |
| 24 | Let me just rinse my hands they 're horrible ! |
| 25 | He was famous , people flocked to catch a glimpse of him , they stood for hours in the freezing cold in the hope that he would choose their hand to shake — for no better reason than an accident of birth . |
| 26 | That meant he did n't take her anger seriously , thought he could beat her hands down , and that surely gave her the advantage ? |
| 27 | If and when re-unification came about , the Four Powers would lift their hand from the city as they lifted it from ‘ Germany as a whole ’ . |
| 28 | They fold their arms when they should lift their hand in wrath . |
| 29 | Only when he told her that he intended leaving that evening did he feel her hand tighten in his . |
| 30 | And broad shoulders under his white coat — She could feel her hand trembling . |