Example sentences of "hand [coord] a [adj] [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The wall moved under his hands and a small door opened . |
| 3 | Several devices are now being produced commercially at the centre , including a novel mobility aid for children with neuromuscular conditions such as cerebral palsy , a low-pressure air bed to stop patients developing pressure sores , a realistic silicon covering for artificial hands and a special frame to assist plaster room staff with the application of children 's leg and body casts . |
| 4 | ‘ We 've got games in hand and a great chance to end the season with a flourish . ’ |
| 5 | The exchange represented the worst of both sides — woolly-minded thinking on the one hand and a blinkered response reducing morality to the level of materialism on the other . |
| 6 | ’ N'Grabbit depressed a button on the unit she held in her hand and a new graphic merged with the first ‘ … you can see that he has been somewhat over-confident in his predictions . |
| 7 | Cartoons showed malevolent-looking flies with a smoking gun labelled ‘ anthrax ’ in one hand and a dripping knife labelled ‘ typhoid ’ in the other . |
| 8 | The Emperor found Gambo Hartstock sobbing despondently into his apron , an empty bottle of Mootland Malt in one hand and a gore-splattered cleaver dangling limply from the other . |