Example sentences of "of [pron] hand " in BNC.
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| 1 | I ent ever hit a child and if I ever do it 'll be with the skin of me hand . |
| 2 | But at once I saw that perhaps he was right , that perhaps the backs of my hands were indeed hideous and strange . |
| 3 | In the end I was unable to go any further with it because Of an inflamed tendon in one Of my hands . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's out of my hands . ’ |
| 5 | When this child involved in my project reaches maturity , I will have amassed a body of immensely valuable knowledge , but what you , what humanity as a whole does with it , is out of my hands . |
| 6 | It 's out of my hands . |
| 7 | I 'm not letting them out of my hands , am I ? ’ |
| 8 | However often I lived through the moment , and I had just lived through it so vividly that the palms of my hands were sweating and my heart thumping , I could not make it last beyond that point . |
| 9 | They were on the backs of my hands and even on the soles of my feet . |
| 10 | ‘ And that 's out of my hands , ’ I said . |
| 11 | One of my hands and ribs were broken as a result of torture ’ . |
| 12 | ‘ The size of my hands probably did help me to give the ball a real tweak and to develop variety in my bowling , ’ Tribe says . |
| 13 | So I got caned on the palms of my hands . |
| 14 | You notice I have slight eczema on the palms of my hands . |
| 15 | There is a moment of slow motion in which I have time to register the force of the water rushing over my body , my toes slipping out of the footcups , the paddle flying out of my hands . |
| 16 | My nose was starting to run and she released one of my hands and put a Chanel-smelling handkerchief into it . |
| 17 | We sat down , I on the arm-chair , he on the floor at my feet : He held one of my hands and played with the fingers . |
| 18 | It 's been taken out of my hands . |
| 19 | He drew my arms around him ; he kissed the palms of my hands and drew my arms around him without speaking . |
| 20 | In my mind 's eye , I imagined her nestling warm and soft in the palms of my hands , trustingly accepting morsels of moistened wafer from between my lips , maybe cooing a little — not to say thank you , I 'm not daft enough to think that — because she would be so happy . |
| 21 | But it was out of my hands at that stage . |
| 22 | ‘ It is n't out of my hands . |
| 23 | He reached in and wrenched the little bundle of plastic bands out of my hands , and I sat there , silent , watching as he fumbled the bands into position with the little cup to hold the weapon under his right armpit . |
| 24 | They were out of my hands . |
| 25 | It 's the first time in all my life I 've been able to see the back of my nails from the palms of my hands . ’ |
| 26 | One of my hands was seized and , strange upon strange , a small wax candle thrust into my palm . |
| 27 | I quickly cast back out again to the same spot and to my total astonishment the rod was almost pulled out of my hands before I got it back to the rests . |
| 28 | ‘ You see , it 's out of my hands . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Out of my hands , my dear . |
| 30 | ‘ Out of my hands , now . ’ |