Example sentences of "of his [adj] hand " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ A promise , ’ Merrill confirmed , grateful for the friendly strength of his warm hand . |
| 2 | Santerre was about to protest but Mandeville dismissed him with a curt move of his gloved hand . |
| 3 | He was standing against one of the walls of the bedroom , one elbow resting on a long teak shelf which at one time must have contained books , but was now bare , resting his head against the palm of his raised hand in an attitude of relaxation . |
| 4 | The man rubbed his eyes with the back of his dirty hand . |
| 5 | But now he appears , or rather the people see the effects of his presence , the sweep of his mighty hand . |
| 6 | His head throbbed mightily from the blows he 'd received , and the continuous agony of his burned hand made him feel as if the limb was swelling to gigantic proportions . |
| 7 | Finally , there is the primarily southern distribution of his Second Hand coin type of c.985-c.991 . |
| 8 | WASHINGTON ( Reuter ) — President Bush will undergo minor surgery today to remove a small growth from the middle finger of his right hand . |
| 9 | The undertaker , a fat man with a bunch of keys hanging from the index finger of his right hand , stood whispering to his father and Michael . |
| 10 | Placing the egg in the palm of his right hand , Vic let it roll up his forearm and then jerked his elbow so that it was propelled into the air . |
| 11 | A hard sweep of his right hand , the edge smashing into the big man 's neck , should have felled the Latin American , but hidden beneath his poncho he wore a studded leather collar . |
| 12 | A full and very black moustache covered his upper lip and during conversation he frequently smoothed it down in a rather absent-minded fashion with the forefinger of his right hand . |
| 13 | The husband not only forked food into his mouth with an almost non-stop movement of his right hand , but he also held a corn bun in his left hand so that food could be put into his mouth to fill the split second it took to reload the fork . |
| 14 | Anderson lifted the back of his right hand . |
| 15 | Each member of the family had his or her picture taken at least once : there , recorded for posterity , is father Benjamin , leaning back comfortably in a chair just as he had done when sitting for Mr. Adkin all those years before , still wearing his favourite ring on the little finger of his right hand . |
| 16 | He sucked on a cigarette and I saw that the fingers of his right hand were stained a deep yellow by the nicotine . |
| 17 | There was a dull pain in his lower jaw , from hours of teeth-clenching , and the fingers of his right hand flexed and unflexed spasmodically , like those of an elderly arthritic . |
| 18 | Fate took a turn for the worst as far as fellow-Mancs NEW FADS were concerned when they had to cancel their headlining London gig this week as guitarist DOLAN has temporarily lost control of his right hand through over-use ! |
| 19 | Pausing at the door he turned once more and extended the middle finger of his right hand towards the bed . |
| 20 | Ben , watching him , saw once again how the light seemed trapped by the matt black surface of the heavy iron ring he wore on the index finger of his right hand . |
| 21 | He bent forward and gently brushed the cold lips with his own , then sat back on his heels , shivering , toying with the ring that rested , heavy and unfamiliar , like a saddle on the first finger of his right hand . |
| 22 | Mathers licked the thumb and forefinger of his right hand and opened the little wallet , then pushed it back . |
| 23 | It was smaller than a man 's thumb nail and Nicholson held it between the thumb and finger of his right hand with surprising delicacy . |
| 24 | He closed his eyes as he set it down on its place , flattening it open under his left hand , and laid the index finger of his right hand upon the exposed page . |
| 25 | He propped his chin in the palm of his right hand . |
| 26 | An accident when he was a boy resulted in the loss of his right hand , and throughout his adult life he wore a hook , hence the reference in The Old Benchers of the Inner Temple by Charles Lamb [ q.v . ] : |
| 27 | ‘ I examined the two bottles for prints and found nothing identifiable on the hydrochloride , but on the nux vomica bottle there were fresh prints of the deceased 's left hand and on the stopper good prints of the forefinger and thumb of his right hand . |
| 28 | God has taken columned New York between the knuckles of his right hand — and tugged . |
| 29 | Then with the chunky knuckles of his right hand he sent his full tumbler of water surfing Western-style up the skiddy steel bar . |
| 30 | The palm of his right hand was oozingly red from another gash . |