Example sentences of "[pron] hand at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She ca n't know how I value my freedom , Donald , the freedom to do what I like and take advantage of the opportunity to explore a new city , learn a new language , try my hand at a way of life I did n't know existed . |
| 2 | In the first few months when I came out of the Navy I 'd tried my hand at a couple of things , and then my mother phoned me up one day and said there 's this job going at Drogo . |
| 3 | It 's time to try my hand at the settled life . |
| 4 | ‘ I do n't need one , ’ Theda returned , brushing the back of her hand at a lock of hair which was blowing across her face . |
| 5 | It is precisely this sort of arrangement — ‘ rooms had been taken there because they were to start by an early train on that line in the morning ’ — that leads to a fraught dinner party for Clara Amedroz and the two rivals for her hand at the Great Northern Hotel , King 's Cross , in Anthony Trollope 's The Belton Estate ( 1865 ) . |
| 6 | The woman whose title had baffled Eileen waved her hand at the other girl dismissively . |
| 7 | The knife raked her side , but she ignored the pain and struck out with the flat of her hand at the psycho 's chin . |
| 8 | Sarah waved her hand at the girl , her voice sounding more confident than she actually felt . |
| 9 | They were lovely clothes , beautifully made from fine materials , and if Ellie took a tuck with her hand at the back of the dresses , and turned the hems up a good six or nine inches , looking in the dressing mirror she could get more than a fair impression of how she might look once she too was a young woman . |
| 10 | I also think that there is n't a woman alive who would n't like to have a companion to be there with a cup of tea when she 's in bed with the flu and a high temperature , or holding her hand at the surgery when she 's awaiting the result of a test . |
| 11 | She waved her hand at the drinks table . |
| 12 | When Reynolds 's Newspaper ( 9 November 1856 ) tried its hand at a garotting song , it summed up the feeling well enough : |
| 13 | I agree with Eldon Snyder and Elmer Spreitzer that : ‘ Like all of education , physical education should provide opportunities for students to try their hand at a variety of activities as sources of possible self-realization . |
| 14 | The estate 's extensive grounds offer excellent opportunities for many pleasant walks and include a small lake where guests are permitted to try their hand at a little fishing . |
| 15 | They include a party of German businessmen , keen to try their hand at the traditional Highland Games sports of shot-putting and caber-tossing , and a group of Australians . |
| 16 | Great cars helped to develop great drivers and wealthy Britons Lord Howe and Sir Henry Birkin were two of the many aristocrats that tried their hand at the sport . |
| 17 | I offered my thanks to the interviewer for seeing me and shook his/her hand at the end . |
| 18 | And so it was that a man who had tried his hand at a whole variety of working-class jobs but who was no friend of the labour unions could , as part of his episodic film Intolerance , quite effortlessly recreate a clash between workers and police that is so lifelike as to seem like a newsreel and to suggest that perhaps every subsequent labour riot followed its pattern . |
| 19 | When the plant closed , and after trying his hand at a few other jobs , he finally settled at . |
| 20 | ‘ For two miles across the dunes , ’ he waved his hand at the lumpy landscape , ‘ there are walks for naturists . |
| 21 | Later during the first journey , comedian Jimmy Edwards tried his hand at the controls . |
| 22 | The Old and New Courts described , SB 31 ; ‘ hold up his hand at the Old Bailey ’ , i.e. to plead guilty . |
| 23 | If , as has been guestimated , a draughtsman spends two-thirds of his time doing conceptual thinking , looking up tables , doing calculations , checking , etc. , and only one-third of his time with a pencil in his hand at the drawing-board , then an increase in productivity at the drawing-board itself of 300 per cent would mean an overall productivity increase in line with observed job reductions . |
| 24 | This month , RICHARD SMITH tries his hand at the new Acrylix brushes from Pro Arte . |
| 25 | By the end of the seventeenth century the high-street undertaker was trying his hand at the technique , much to the chagrin of the surgeons and the apothecaries . |
| 26 | He waved his hand at the firewood . |
| 27 | Despite pleas from his mother , Jackie was next to try his hand at the sport . |
| 28 | He tried his hand at the Can-Am series in North America . |
| 29 | In 1984 he married a French woman , and the following year travelled to France to try his hand at the colour photography which seemed so popular in European magazines . |
| 30 | I had only a brief opportunity of shaking his hand at the end , as I was obliged to rush back to Oxford before I was ‘ gated ’ . |