Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] the [adj] hand " in BNC.
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| 1 | An attack is warded off with the rear hand guard : the defender then drops onto one knee and strikes with a crippling tiger claw to the groin . |
| 2 | In contrast , such intra-hemispheric competition does not occur when balancing is carried out by the left hand since this is controlled from the right hemisphere . |
| 3 | The original findings have been replicated ( Hicks , 1975 ; Johnson and Kozma , 1977 ) and an interpretation in terms of intra-hemispheric competition supported by evidence of impairment on various tasks carried out by the left hand when cognitive operations supposedly mediated primarily by the right hemisphere are performed ( Kinsbourne , 1973 ; McFarland and Ashton , 1975 ; 1978a ; Smith , Chu and Edmonston , 1977 ; Dalby , 1980 ) . |
| 4 | a vertical bar positioned usually on the right hand side of the screen . |
| 5 | ‘ He plays more on the left hand side which is not my favourite position , I prefer to play on the right . |
| 6 | Below the rear central lamp , which shone into the interior , is the curved transverse tambour ; once erroneously thought to have been a sword-case , it opened only at the left hand end , outside the carriage , and its true purpose is obscure . |
| 7 | This last task , in fact , had earlier been found to be performed better by the left hand of neurologically intact right and left handers ( Kimura and Vanderwolf 1970 ) . |
| 8 | His talons swung down and ahead of him and opened starkly towards the vulnerable hand . |
| 9 | Stand upright with the left hand on the hip . |
| 10 | He hypothesised that left handers who employed the upright posture ( indicative of contralateral cerebral lateralisation of language ) should perform better with the left hand than inverted sinistral writers . |
| 11 | She glanced meaningfully at the linked hands of Juliet and David . |
| 12 | If they were grubby , you were told to put your hand out and you had a cut with cane , a punishment which was then meted out to the other hand , followed by the order — ‘ Go and wash ’ . |
| 13 | On knitting back to the right hand side , the loops into fully formed stitches , as this is a repeated row . |
| 14 | You 'll find the little diagram showing you where the pulmonary vein and the pulmonary artery are on page eleven , page eleven if you want to refer to it right , if you want to look at it in a closer detail tonight that 's fine and if you want to see what I 'm saying now in a diagrammatic form look on page thirteen now if you look at that you 'll see some , the blue vein blood vessels it 's coming out of the right hand side of the heart and if you look at the direction of the arrows , okay , they 're going away from the heart , do you agree with me ? |
| 15 | They found that speaking interfered selectively with the right hand only under certain conditions . |
| 16 | Lomas and Kimura ( 1976 ) repeated this experiment using different manual tasks and found that speaking interfered selectively with the right hand only under certain conditions . |
| 17 | She looked pointedly at the busy hands . |
| 18 | He looked down at the other hand neatly folded in his lap . |
| 19 | So , as the other person already occupied part of the left hand bench , he quite naturally went over to the right hand bench and promptly sat down . |
| 20 | ‘ I shall see to it that she does n't end up in the wrong hands . |
| 21 | Follow the path to the summit of Shining Tor and carry on along the right hand side of the wall to eventually ascend Cats Tor . |
| 22 | Various sidings , er and the trains from would come in to the left hand side of the top platform , erm and er would er go over here and and cut back and go out from this er this side . |
| 23 | Although Laps has now passed out of the benign hands of David and Lotte Lapidus , who ran it for some 50 years , the tradition lives on as does the style of cuisine , best described by the Yiddish word hamisch . |
| 24 | I was not sure that I had been baptized ( having shrunk back from the outstretched hand with water in my late teens , believing baptism a piece of medieval nonsense ) , while wanting to be a member of the church . |
| 25 | Mike Miller has climbed out of the left hand side of The Priest 's Hole above Dove Crag to produce Xoanan , E4 , 6b , 80ft , while in Sandbed Ghyll , Hit The Fan , E4 6a , marked the return both of Rob Matheson and Iain Greenwood . |
| 26 | Billy , who was now contentedly stretched out in the sidecar with his eyes closed , was suddenly thrown hard against the right hand side of the aluminium box . |
| 27 | ‘ I desire to speak in answer to it , your Grace , ’ said the man , stooping obsequiously to the extended hand . |
| 28 | But after having been short headed by On The Other Hand in the Punchestown Festival Handicap in April of that year , The Committee developed a ‘ leg ’ after having been struck into . |
| 29 | two facing pages of newspaper or magazine where the textual material on the left hand side continues across to the right hand side . |
| 30 | Irma La Douce is lightweight entertainment , held down by the off hand commentary of Liz Spenz as the owner of the back street cafe where the plot keeps boiling over . |