Example sentences of "[adv prt] [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 | Sometimes in the Cauldhame Arms I stand up at the urinal , but most if it ends up running down my hands or legs . |
| 3 | Margery was sitting on the bed holding a bottle of Guinness that foamed all down her hand and wrist . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He brought down his hand , like a guillotine blade , on the baluster rail . |
| 6 | Her looks nailed down his hands his wrists his elbows |
| 7 | I wait until it fills itself and then I swat it , the blood splashing over my hand . |
| 8 | I pick it up and brush it over my hand . |
| 9 | When I go down on the table-cloths , the water runs over my hand . |
| 10 | The sleeves drooped over my hands and the hem scraped the sidewalk . |
| 11 | A tiny spider floated down on a thread from a purple-headed thistle and scuttled over her hand . |
| 12 | ‘ I tripped over her hand . |
| 13 | He bowed over her hand , then dismissed her fears of an imminent French invasion . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'm going to be a princess — Ow ! ’ she yelled , as Lucenzo 's coffee spilled and splashed over her hand . |
| 15 | One mother of small children opened her garden shed to find a rat which jumped over her hand and ran out . |
| 16 | Rosa in the chapel with her head bent over her hands , her legs stiff from kneeling , thought , We will go away together , somewhere different from here , to Africa , he said , he wanted to go there , and I will take care of him , we are like each other , we are both … and she hunted for the word because she did not want to use the word ‘ misfit ’ , and found ‘ changeling ’ . |
| 17 | Back in bed , breakfast tray on her knees , slowly and attentively she poured out a cup of tea , the cuffs of her nightdress drooping over her hands . |
| 18 | Last , he rubbed it over his hands and wrists . |
| 19 | By day the grey alpaca coat , left behind by Twomey , covered him like a night-shirt ; the turned-back sleeves often fell over his hands to hang for a moment with a pierrot 's sadness . |
| 20 | I followed him down the stairs , listening to him curse and shout ; in the front hall he tried to get a jacket on over his clothes but could n't get it to fit over his hand holding the gun . |
| 21 | In those days , the sweat would fall off my hands and I 'd hear it hitting the floor . |
| 22 | That 'll take her off my hands . ’ |
| 23 | I slipped it into my pocket and dusted off my hands and clothes . |
| 24 | The Trunchbull stood in the playground dusting off her hands . |
| 25 | Then she marched back to the front of the class , dusting off her hands one against the other like someone who has been handling something rather grimy . |
| 26 | Luke had to pull off her hands , one by one and half carry her along the bus and down the steps . |
| 27 | She stood up , dusting off her hands and stood before Patrick . |
| 28 | ‘ Did you know his ma asked Francis to take him off her hands when he was seven 'cause she was too busy with the bar ? ’ |
| 29 | Water dripped off her hands , too , and her severe black bathing dress . |
| 30 | Mistress Rachel used these , first to silence the witch ; secondly , to cut off her hands and head in order to frighten us on our return to Glastonbury . ’ |