Example sentences of "[verb] in the [adj] hand " in BNC.
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| 1 | The lunge whip is carried in the outside hand , pointing down the back . |
| 2 | The Acts of the Apostles is written in the same hand . |
| 3 | Beneath the latter 's name , written in the same hand , was Genesis 3 , Verse I and the Book of the Apocalypse , 6 , Verse 8 . |
| 4 | Being a French-built helicopter , the rotors do not appear in the right hand window and vanish from the left one , as they would in an American-built machine . |
| 5 | erm and as such a likely hiding place for someone to be was beneath the bed , erm I then lifted the bed with one hand , as I had my revolver drawn in the other hand , erm and then seeing no one was underneath it , I I dropped it again . |
| 6 | The figurine stood erect on its plinth , a long sword clutched in the left hand pointing downwards , the fingers of the right hand casually curled , but close to the deadly sheathed dagger in the belt . |
| 7 | The amount is shown in the right hand column of the Flight Timetable . |
| 8 | In this way , we can build up a profile for expected three month interest rates , shown in the right hand column of Table 6.6 . |
| 9 | a game played by holding in the closed hand one or two items , the other player having to guess at the number . |
| 10 | Another thing erm to tell you is erm the blinds , they can either erm bunch in the left hand side , |
| 11 | The latter form handles for winding in the line and the handles can be at opposite ends , or have one central to act as a pivot , rotating in the free hand . |
| 12 | Oh come on Christopher come and sometimes it in the right panel , that 's the right panel there and then it goes in the left hand and then it goes to the right hand and then it goes to the left then right , the left , the right , left , right , left , confusing , but it 's that hand to start with |
| 13 | I mean never stay in the right hand lane |
| 14 | The car 's number in gold shaded black and a maker 's transfer appeared in the left hand upper panel of the bulkhead balanced by a glass bullseye in the right hand one , over which a red slide could be moved to act as a tail lamp . |
| 15 | Near the window was a small pair of scales with polished brass weights whilst at the other end of the counter was a larger pair with iron weights used for the vegetables which were kept in the left hand corner of the shop . |
| 16 | Holly looked over the single sheet of paper that was covered in the large hand of one for whom writing was slow and difficult . |
| 17 | The subject held one response button in each hand ; Yes and No buttons differed in size , and the Yes button was held in the preferred hand . |
| 18 | While the leash may be held in the right hand , the dog is invariably positioned on the left . |
| 19 | On the back , quite without superficial decoration , the artist has concentrated on revealing the forms of the body , not adapted to a linear pattern but swelling in majestic simplicity under the smooth cloak which originally veiled the hair and falls almost to the ankles , held in the right hand and brought round under the left elbow to be tucked into the belt in front . |
| 20 | Climbing steep snow in a series of zigzags as in ( Fig. 2b ) , the axe is held in the uphill hand and the rope goes on the downhill side direct to the next person on the rope . |
| 21 | Birds rarely employ death-feigning but sometimes a small bird held in the human hand has been seen to collapse motionless and lie very still . |