Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pron] [adj] hand " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Once or twice I started swinging very badly , but as I was using my only hand to stop myself bleeding to death , I was unable to do anything about it . |
| 2 | Using my right hand . |
| 3 | and er I have a real problem with using my left hand . |
| 4 | He hissed her hand , delicately , a mere whisper of the lips , stood back , looked intently at her until she was forced to smile back at him , and pressing her left hand in his unclawed fingers , swept his blemished hand across the landscape beyond them : Bassenthwaite Lake , the valley , Keswick , Derwent Water , Catbells , Newlands , an Arcadia which his gesture seemed to offer her as his gift . |
| 5 | ‘ And is there , perhaps , ’ asked Martin , pressing her floury hand into his , ‘ a happy man in this household who has … ’ he paused , ‘ who has the honour to call himself Mr Jones ? ’ |
| 6 | She kept it tidy , the fire , pushing fallen embers into its heart , knocking its flaming hands together , greedy , bright . |
| 7 | Forbidden suicide by his religion , he could not induce death by , for instance , agitating his pierced hands and feet until loss of blood carried him away . |
| 8 | In all three instances — Hedilla , the Basque government , Guernica — Franco was politically responsible , but employed his by now familiar " long-handled spoon " tactic , keeping his own hands clean by using others to impose his will . |
| 9 | Disengaging his bleeding hand , Angel One wiped it on the quivering hide of his latest victim . |
| 10 | Then thrust off your rear foot , driving your open hand across the opponent 's leading guard . |
| 11 | She found she was thinking small , on the scale of the ark , seeing her own hands huge as those of Gulliver in Lilliput . |
| 12 | They swing with considerable grace from branch to branch using their hook-like hands alternately , a mode of locomotion known as brachiation . |
| 13 | Witnesses said some of those killed had apparently blockaded the US embassy and were trying to storm it using their bare hands , stones and knives . |
| 14 | Witnesses said some of those killed had blockaded the US embassy and were trying to storm it using their bare hands , stones and knives . |
| 15 | Neither does science know why a majority of humans prefer using their right hands to their left hands . |
| 16 | Autistic children have to be taught such basic skills from behind , using their own hands . |
| 17 | Simply from examining the bones the experts can tell us that she suffered from childhood illness and spent a lot of her life sitting on her heels using her left hand , perhaps grinding corn . |
| 18 | ‘ Tuesday , ’ Dorothea said aloud , tapping her right hand with her left forefinger . |
| 19 | She 's smoothing her sappled hands up and down my thighs . |
| 20 | ‘ Oh well , ’ said Marcus , capturing his left hand again , ‘ I suppose it 's about what makes human consciousness possible , or rather it 's about what human consciousness is , which is to say what , and how , the world is , how anything is . |
| 21 | Inserting his left hand , Grant took a firm grip and heaved upwards . |
| 22 | Without warning his right hand swiped in retaliation at her mouth , splitting her lip . |
| 23 | ‘ I anger quite easily , ’ he murmured quietly , taking her cases and ignoring her outstretched hand and the money it held . |
| 24 | He came forward into the firelight then and she saw he had been sitting beside the range , in an old rocking chair which he had left tilting back and forth , to take the lantern from her , grasping her free hand in his . |
| 25 | Spitting and spluttering , forcing his flailing hands and knees to get a grip on the earth and push him back upright , he heard the rushing creak of the rickshaw 's wheels and the patter of feet as the haulier sped off into the night . |
| 26 | She gave us parties and disapproved of me teaching : Jennifer darling , surely you can get a job in a nice private girls ' school But when I was 14 and had awful tonsillitis she brought me lemon and honey and sat on the edge of the pillow holding my damp hand . |
| 27 | My younger brother is holding my left hand but he is only vaguely present , shadowy . |
| 28 | Wiping her floury hands , Mrs Beavis answered the knock . |
| 29 | She carried William , and I led her , holding her small hand , back to where the automobile was parked . |
| 30 | Holding her hot hands to her forehead she cried , ‘ Tell me your secret , Fanny ! |