Example sentences of "hand at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the front window , some sort of complicated tile game was going on , thick wads of soft old cash changing hands at a brisk clip . |
| 2 | namely Thucydides ) , but voting techniques were not : there was no counting of votes at all ( something which would have taken several hours when the agenda was as crowded as that given at the beginning of Demosthenes ' fiftieth speech of 362 BC ) , and the ‘ consensus ’ was determined by a show of hands , which tellers then adjudicated , in a fashion no more precise than that of a modern shop-steward who ‘ counts ’ a sea of hands at a trade union mass meeting . |
| 3 | It 's a deal : Sir Geoffrey Mulcahy ( left ) , and Philippe Frances , chairman of the French retailer Darty , shake hands at a press conference yesterday |
| 4 | And — just for ten minutes , ten or fifteen minutes , and the others stay with me , and we 'll just try our hands at a couple of |
| 5 | PRICE records tumbled as more than £12 million changed hands at an auction of Old Masters by Christie 's yesterday . |
| 6 | The body is laid out on the back with hands at the side , the eyes are closed ( coins or cotton wool on the eyelids will help ) the jaw supported by a pillow , and all the natural outlets of the body plugged with cotton wool . |
| 7 | I have a pee , then I wash my hands at the sink . |
| 8 | Invigorate your hands at the end of a massage by rubbing them together until vibrant , then relax them . |
| 9 | Huge puffy ones started springing up all over the hands at the friction points in Vincente 's system of finger knots . |
| 10 | ‘ Something to do with pointing the hands at the sun , ’ he guessed . |
| 11 | The country as well as Mr Major are very fortunate to have such a safe pair of hands at the Foreign Office at a time when the vital question of Britain 's future within the European Union is still being determined . |
| 12 | He has perished at his own hands at the death . |
| 13 | Place your hands at the base of the back , on either side of the spine with your fingers relaxed , pointing towards the head . |
| 14 | WHO throws up its hands at the whole , loud confrontation . |
| 15 | One of the arts of the parent , the teacher , and the librarian is to ensure that the right book is in the right hands at the right moment . |
| 16 | And Parker 's hands at the back of his head . |
| 17 | They , old hands at the owning game , stood by with calm interest while their pair , Soluble and Slipperclub , were readied , Mrs Young speaking with her sweet expression to one of the jockeys , Mr Young more impassively to the other . |
| 18 | The dinosaurs probably lost the race against time , having already lost bipedality and vestigial hands at the time when mammalian-type warm-bloodedness would almost certainly have guaranteed their survival into perpetuity . |
| 19 | Hands at the sides , nose quickly touches nose one to three times . |
| 20 | There are many things on her hands at the moment . |
| 21 | Yesterday , illicit smokers were fined for taking a puff as the college was declared a no smoking zone , while more health-conscious students tried their hands at the Clacton Olympics . |
| 22 | Only three of the twenty-six hands at the Sheffield works ( commissioned c . |
| 23 | Old hands at the Tretyakov remember that Yeltsin examined the plan for restoration and construction work at the Gallery back when he was the minister at the USSR Gosstroy ( State Construction Department ) . |
| 24 | Bazille was killed a few months before his twenty-ninth birthday in the Franco-Prussian war , and since then scholars have been wringing their hands at the loss of a potential ‘ great Impressionist ’ , discounting the possibility that he could equally have evolved into a third-rate artist like Sisley or Morisot . |
| 25 | And this iron six-pounder had already fired heaven only knew how many rounds before coming into Harry 's hands at the banqueting hall . |
| 26 | It 's in their hands at the moment er as far as I know they are going to let us know that in the very near future , certainly long before the ballot papers are actually distributed to members . |
| 27 | They were nearly all men , show-business or gossip columnists , old hands at the game and professional cynics , which well they might be on an occasion like this . |
| 28 | Then she opened both hands at the same moment . |
| 29 | Here Abie threw up his hands at the ignorance of policemen . |
| 30 | The criticism is then seen as being political and if the electors of Greater London disapprove of what is done in their name by their representatives , the remedy lies in their hands at the next election . |