Example sentences of "[verb] his finger on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The logical conclusion of all this is that there can no longer be a justification for the massive nuclear arsenals held by both sides , that only the absolute minimum of nuclear defence is required and that , because President Yeltsin , too , now has his finger on the nuclear button , we should now be doing business with him on this issue as on so many others . |
| 2 | He lightly scored his finger on the edge of the spur , gasped and quickly dipped it in the bowl of water on the lavarium before bathing it in a little wine . |
| 3 | ‘ Al Capone has got his finger on the trigger at long last . ’ |
| 4 | Dostoevsky followed the trial proceedings closely , and I think the Soviet editor is right to put his finger on the verb tolkatsya , to loaf or lounge about , which occurs in a speech by the prosecuting lawyer . |
| 5 | But Cuckney does not find it easy to put his finger on the fundamental differences between operating in the two sectors . |
| 6 | ‘ He keeps his finger on the button . ’ |
| 7 | You will learn that at the age of nineteen he was practising his public speaking at Hyde Park Corner ; you will learn that he reads the Sun to keep his finger on the public pulse . |
| 8 | He has to keep his finger on the pulse . ’ |
| 9 | Zach found himself totally mesmerized and placed his finger on the page so that he would n't lose his place . |
| 10 | He leaned forward and tapped his finger on the table . |
| 11 | Then he put his finger on the reason : ‘ State finance was required to … safeguard overall political and social stability . ’ |
| 12 | Philip put his finger on the blue feathers that had other colours in , like petrol . |
| 13 | Keith put his finger on the paper , beside the right one , and Jinny read it out . |
| 14 | Many people doubtless came to embrace the emperor 's religion for worthier motives ; but Eusebius put his finger on the radical novelty of the condition in which Christians now found themselves . |
| 15 | But he says Shakespeare certainly put his finger on the truth when he wrote : ‘ There are more things in heaven and earth … than are dreamt in ( your ) philosophy . ’ |
| 16 | C. S. Lewis ( 1979 : 9 ) surely put his finger on the proper Christian approach to evil spirits in the preface to The Screwtape Letters : ‘ There are two equal and opposite errors into which our race can fall about the devils . |
| 17 | The hon. Gentleman put his finger on the cause of the problem — the excessive subsidies in Germany . |
| 18 | I am very grateful to my hon. Friend , who has put his finger on the real point . |
| 19 | I think Willi has put his finger on the essential me ! ’ |
| 20 | He had a sure knack of putting his finger on the heart of matters under discussion , and of asking questions which helped to clarify planning and decisions . |
| 21 | With that characteristically strong statement , he puts his finger on the secret of the Ahlbergs ' phenomenal success with adults and children alike . |
| 22 | He tightened his finger on the trigger but again the fragile , defenceless beauty of the deer prevented him from firing and he lowered his rifle immediately . |
| 23 | And , remembering the way the wretched man had kept his finger on the bell , ‘ He could n't have been that lucky — to pick on the one flat you were in out of all the others — purely by chance . ’ |