Example sentences of "hand [coord] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | STROKE firmly upwards from knee to waist with your hands or a massage gadget . |
| 2 | All you have to do is gently move all your joints , several times , one after the other ; carefully stretch and then tense your muscles ; breathe deeply , but not too deeply , and invigorate your body by massaging it with your hands , someone else 's hands or a rough towel . |
| 3 | We 're not a , our our physical body 's not made up of a multitude of hands or a multitude of feet there are feet , and the feet has one function , the hand has another . |
| 4 | When passing round a curve , one or other of these springs ( depending on whether the curve was a right hand or a left hand one ) had to be still further compressed . |
| 5 | RUB in a circular motion with the palm of your hand or a massage gadget . |
| 6 | It is astonishing how many cultural vanguardists actually seem to welcome a situation where musical tastes are defined by either a handful of multinationals on the one hand or a relatively tight cabal of university-educated journalists on the other . |
| 7 | Erm again when I have bad days with these wrists they just give way , and this is not a mental thing at all , I mean I could be holding a , a glass or a cup in my hand or a , a , a dish of something for that matter , and the er the nerves just relax the muscle and out it goes , it 's n n I do n't know it 's going to happen , but it can happen . |
| 8 | It is also capable of the most savage attack when roused , the stridency of which is enhanced ( though the power actually reduced ) by ‘ stopping ’ the bell with the hand or a metal mute and blowing hard . |
| 9 | You ca n't get unless you 've got a broom in your hand or a brush . |
| 10 | For only I and one other person in that courtroom knew the truth , knew that the hand which had dispatched William had been neither a female hand nor a male one , but the hand of a terrible neuter thing ! |
| 11 | Marcel gave me my hands and a generation later , I gave David Bowie his wings . |
| 12 | It could not get hold of me and stifle me ; for it would employ only my hands and a certain section of my knowledge ; the rest of me would be free : after office hours my escape would be absolute ; and then the holidays would enable me , according to my powers and my wishes , to live another life as different as that of Jekyll from that of Hyde . |
| 13 | He seemed to have a score of hands and a hundred musical fingers . |
| 14 | Tom Fish was a very tall man with big hands and a cruel sense of humour . |
| 15 | Similarly , any seafarer would surely distrust its description by one Albert Wetjen as ‘ a beautiful , warm-eyed woman with magic hands and a whispered voice , with a warm heart and a sad smile ’ . |
| 16 | With his huge rough hands and a large red nose , he looked like a rebellious peasant from Doctor Zhivago — and compared to the four veterans of the Afghan campaign in the next compartment he was a veritable teetotaller . |
| 17 | The computer quickly came to the conclusion that , taking the IQ levels on my own planet into consideration , Einstein and Newton ‘ could n't find their bottoms with both hands and a flashlight . ’ |
| 18 | His injuries were far more serious than he had imagined ; he had incurred third-degree burns on his hands and a serious infection had spread into his bloodstream . |
| 19 | Mucky hands and a fat bank balance would be a way of life for the first generation of nouveaux-riches manufacturers ; but with a bit of care the brass itself could be used to buy their children out of the world of muck altogether . |
| 20 | Sister Joan , she 's got chapped hands and a streaming cold , but she 's very kind . |
| 21 | Pictures formed in her mind of bloody-minded leading hands and a frowning chief telegraphist , all of them men and all of them waiting , grim-faced , for Bainbridge , L. V. to make her first mistake ; a mistake so terrible that talk of its consequences would reverberate around the Home Fleet for years to come . |
| 22 | Small , quick half-back with good hands and a swift delivery . |
| 23 | Above the Jewish boy lay a larger , heavier man with rougher hands and a jowled chin where the white ribbon of a healed scar ran twisting across the folds . |
| 24 | He had knocked on the back door while she was kneading the first batch of bread dough she had ever made in her life — something to do , she thought crossly , with coming to the country — and she had gone to answer him with floury hands and a frown . |
| 25 | Maria Iñes was dumpy and talkative ; Maria Teresa was dark and very like João , though not quite so good looking , and Maria de Graça was taller , plainer , and so intent upon winning herself a place in Heaven that she had little conversation for anyone apart from Padre Jorge , an oily man with plump little hands and a great anxiety to be first to agree with Dom João in everything he said . |
| 26 | Beth was standing in the kitchen doorway , the dishcloth in her hands and a serious expression on her face . |
| 27 | The wall moved under his hands and a small door opened . |
| 28 | He was a large rumpled red-faced man in his late forties , with huge hands and a fog-horn voice , disinclined to waste time on niceties . |
| 29 | ‘ All I ask is a corner to warm my cold hands and a sip of milk … oh let me in … ’ |
| 30 | All you need is a watch with hands and a sunny day . |