Example sentences of "[verb] your hand [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Place your hands on the lower part of your outer thighs so you can feel and see the muscle contractions as you squeeze . |
2 | Sit as shown , and place your hands on the lower thighs so you can feel the leg muscle contractions . |
3 | A chance to try your hand at the ancient art of Drystone Walling . |
4 | I thought ooh , what if you put your hand in the wrong place urgh urgh ! |
5 | Okay , so if you turned your hand over the other way . |
6 | You might walk down sombre corridors and gaze upon dim , seldom-used halls , and you might run your hand across the scarred surfaces of the old walls , and then , without the least warning , you would find yourself in a sun-drenched quadrangle , or a courtyard where gentians grew or mountain ash flared . |
7 | Can you lay your hands on the second and third addition of the brochures then ? , if there were a second and third edition |
8 | By day it 's very much a ‘ let's get a sunlounger and lie on the sand ’ sort of resort and the sandy beach is well equipped with everything you 'll need in the way of bars , restaurants and shade , and there are several places to waterski , windsurf and parascend or try your hand on the wet bikes . |
9 | Turn your hand to the Victorian art of ribbon weaving . |
10 | As he is not a chap to do anything by halves , to get your hands on the eight per cent SGNs you 'll have to go the whole hog and invest in ‘ Work '69 : Terres a Vin ’ , a box containing six special half-bottles ( 1 Muenchberg Riesling ‘ VV ’ , 2 Muenchberg Pinot Gris and 3 Franholz Gewurztraminer ) with handmade labels and capsules pebbledashed with vineyard soil , a piece of rock from each of the three Grand Cru vineyards and a book of Andre 's poems . |
11 | ‘ I hear on the grapevine you can get your hands on the occasional salmon , ’ Bert said suddenly , with a wink . |
12 | But I must ask you to stop washing your hands in the Holy water , and please , please , do not refer to me as Mother Shapiro . ’ |
13 | Mm say if you 're on the world , if you , if you 're a net importer , right , erm , and you 're buying your food commodities from the world market , you must have been rubbing your hands over the last fifty years cos you 're getting , you 're buying , you 're buying a food commodities will lower , lower prices than you would have done in the presence of free trade , cos there 's all this dumping and European surpluses , you know Come in |
14 | Or perhaps you 're going to wash your hands of the whole business ? |