Example sentences of "hand [conj] [noun] at [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The position of the legs , body , arms , hands and head at the top of the backswing is totally responsible for the success or otherwise of the forward swing .
2 " If you treated them better , they would n't be mutilating their hands and feet at the rate they are , to escape your clutches . "
3 Women , dressed in black , like nuns , were on hands and knees at the water 's edge collecting fodder for their livestock into baskets , singing as they worked .
4 Searching on hands and knees at the crack of dawn was not the best start to a day , especially a day like this one !
5 ‘ At such a moment one feels as if one were lying bound hand and foot at the bottom of a deep dark well , utterly helpless . ’
6 We can not escape the conclusion that many of those employed in the Service feel a deep sense of dissatisfaction with the organisation and management of it as a whole and that a gulf has grown up between the establishments in the field and the staff who work in them on the one hand and headquarters at the Home Office in London on the other .
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