Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] to hand " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this sense , peace-making was a classic segmentary affair which happened to make use of those modern aids which lay to hand — transcripts of court proceedings , telephones and planes , for example . |
| 2 | I then made copies of the negatives and went into the darkroom , using pens , brushes , sandpaper , whatever came to hand , in fact to distort the images before finally re-copying to get higher contrast prints , which I finished off with selenium toner . |
| 3 | After pushing the desk and all the other furniture to the walls , she spread out four maps on the floor , matching the edges and weighing down the corners with whatever came to hand — the wastepaper basket , the little tin box , the gun . |
| 4 | An open palm , a fist , a stick , a belt , a saucepan : whatever came to hand . |
| 5 | ‘ No , no , ’ I reply , ‘ It 's just what came to hand . ’ |