Example sentences of "she [verb] [pron] hand on the " in BNC.

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1 She laid her hands on the top of his shoulders and kneaded the base of his neck with her thumbs .
2 As she laid her hand on the little mare 's neck , she quivered violently , but did n't move away .
3 She wiped her hands on the white T-shirt she was wearing , leaving pink smears all over it .
4 She wiped her hands on the backside of her shorts .
5 When she got her hands on the bugger , that was .
6 She has her hand on the door , and I have my gun pointing at her chest .
7 As she clenched her hands on the rail until they hurt , she fought to hate him , to make herself angry , not to give in to the terrible despair that kept threatening to overwhelm her .
8 She dried her hands on the kitchen towel , adding , ‘ I worry about Ernest .
9 She slammed her hands on the desk and papers flew in every direction .
10 Charlotte chose one of the least ostentatious chairs , only to find , when she rested her hand on the rounded end of the arm , that it had been carved in the likeness of a naked woman bending forwards , between whose ample gilded buttocks one of her fingers was dangling .
11 Her screams were not heard and in a struggle she cut her hand on the knife .
12 She watched his hands on the wheel , wanting them touching her , stroking her skin , caressing her body and making it come alive .
13 Jessie rose from the table now , but she did n't move away from it , she leant her hands on the edge of it and , bending towards Agnes and in a mere whisper now , she said , ‘ Father 's got to understand that I have a life of my own ; I 'm not a china doll to be babied . ’
14 She kept her hand on the pilot 's yoke and followed through on his movements in case of trouble , but without any qualms he greased the Seneca on to the eleven-thousand-foot Runway 27 at Goose Bay .
15 She put her hand on the older woman 's shoulder and Aunt Margaret blindly grasped it with her own bird-claw .
16 She put her hand on the wooden knob of the kitchen table drawer .
17 As I got there she put her hand on the cut and actually squeezed it , so the blood ran out quite violently , all down his leg .
18 Immediately she put her hand on the ignition key , but she was too late .
19 She put her hands on the table and leant towards Mick .
20 She put her hands on the bedspread , looked into his eyes , an anxious searching as her gaze shifted about his face , first focusing on his right eye , then his left , then slipping to his mouth .
21 She put her hands on the side and straightened her arms and held herself there .
22 She had her hand on the door , but , before she could follow through her intention to slam it in his face , Naylor gave a mighty roar of utter outrage .
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