Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] one hand " in BNC.
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| 1 | He came through the door and he backed Cati against the rough wall of the hideout and rammed his pelvis against her stomach and pinned her down with one hand flat against her chest and with the other drew his belt through the loops of his soldier 's jacket and slashed her across the face with the buckle doubled against the leather . |
| 2 | It 's a good , well-made , sturdy one ( a Mothercare Taxi ) , so it should last for a second child and it 's easy to fold down with one hand . |
| 3 | She tossed the missile up and down from one hand to another , trying to look menacing . |
| 4 | Crilly touches me all over with one hand , keeping the other on my stomach . |
| 5 | He pivoted , and despite his lameness , his sedentary life , he was still a powerful man , and he knocked Havvie Blaine flying , for him to be caught and steadied by Stair , who fended his brother off with one hand . |
| 6 | I hold on with one hand , landing in a fast-moving heap that upsets the sledge 's balance . |
| 7 | Now he pretended to be waving his cape at the bull and executed a neat veronica , then she kicked her leg up backwards and touched her heel with her fingers while he looked scornfully on with one hand behind his back palm facing outwards . |
| 8 | Holding his hard-hat on with one hand , Tait pointed to the left . |
| 9 | Daak had stopped half-way up the girder and , holding on with one hand , was flailing the air with his chainsword . |
| 10 | Well yes you 're putting well I mean how d' ya put your tights on with one hand then ? |
| 11 | Sheldukher held the baby up with one hand . |
| 12 | Then I put my hair up with one hand and pretended I was a model . |
| 13 | Harry Fischer comes out of his room in his shirtsleeves , hoisting his braces up with one hand , and holding in the other some letter or Ministry circular which has arrived in the morning post , and which he reads mockingly aloud to evoke their common derision at the obtuseness and bureaucracy of the world outside the office . |
| 14 | Lloyd picked up a beer can , lifted Beeby 's legs up with one hand , sat down on the sofa and let her legs fall across his lap . |
| 15 | Well we could sell them to him well we we 'll end up with one hand sets for |
| 16 | The pack of cards was shuffled and the subject held the cards face up in one hand . |
| 17 | She put the ladder up against the stone wall of the cottage , gathered her skirts up in one hand and started to climb . |
| 18 | ‘ Honest to God , I put three fingers up on one hand and one finger on the other , smiled at him and then sat down , ’ said Redknapp . |
| 19 | He was still lying on her bed , his head propped up on one hand . |
| 20 | And the Welsh international keeper was to deny Middlesbrough again in the 88th minute when Gittens rose high to the right of goal to power in a close-range , angled header which Norman kept out with one hand . |
| 21 | ‘ As you may have heard , ’ the Governor said , smoothing his hair back with one hand , ‘ Whitely has been in the news lately . |
| 22 | He smoothed his hair back with one hand . |
| 23 | Thérèse had stroked her back with one hand and spoken lovingly . |
| 24 | ‘ Later they told me my body just went up in the air and I was hanging on by one hand . ’ |