Example sentences of "up a handful [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had his time-proven tests for this : one was simply to walk over the land and to ‘ feel it through his boots ’ , ; then again he would take up a handful of soil , carefully crumbling it to test it ; or he would bend down and draw his fist backwards through the soil . |
| 2 | He crouched , and picking up a handful of soil , rubbed it through his fingers . |
| 3 | She picked up a handful of cotton fluff and pulled at it . |
| 4 | Elaine sighed , and picked up a handful of sand , letting it pour slowly through her fingers . |
| 5 | Now I had the hang of it , I racked up a handful of top to bottoms with plenty of vertical . |
| 6 | The dhāmi picked up a handful of rice and blew on it . |
| 7 | ‘ Desperately , desperately ill ! ’ she said , over her shoulder , then swooped down to the dishwasher , picked up a handful of plates , and marched off towards a cupboard . |
| 8 | ‘ The alternative proposal would only show up a handful of sites , not the 100,000 contaminated sites which we estimate exist in Britain . |
| 9 | Yes , well these , all wasps of course , er tend to er hit the fruit juice at this time of the year , and that fruit juice is very often fermenting , and you get a particularly er waspish reaction , er naturally , when er somebody goes to pick up a fallen apple or windfall pear , and they pick up a handful of wasp , inadvertently , and I think this year , particularly with a shortage of water , more wasps of all species have been driven to attack fruit , er and are feeding on the er fruit juice , much of which is fermenting . |
| 10 | He delivered a sermon during which everyone stood still , until he picked up a handful of earth and spoke in a deep voice : ‘ Ashes to ashes . |
| 11 | Finally he picked up a handful of stones and every time he looked round and found her following , he threw one . |
| 12 | Kalchu picked up a handful of maize kernels , inspected them for a minute , and let them trickle back through his fingers . |
| 13 | A final vote showed Tory support remained solid while the LibDems had picked up a handful of votes at Labour 's expense . |