Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] hand at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is precisely this sort of arrangement — ‘ rooms had been taken there because they were to start by an early train on that line in the morning ’ — that leads to a fraught dinner party for Clara Amedroz and the two rivals for her hand at the Great Northern Hotel , King 's Cross , in Anthony Trollope 's The Belton Estate ( 1865 ) . |
| 2 | The knife raked her side , but she ignored the pain and struck out with the flat of her hand at the psycho 's chin . |
| 3 | They were lovely clothes , beautifully made from fine materials , and if Ellie took a tuck with her hand at the back of the dresses , and turned the hems up a good six or nine inches , looking in the dressing mirror she could get more than a fair impression of how she might look once she too was a young woman . |
| 4 | T. D. If the sergeant saw you with your hand at the back , he would come up to you : ‘ What do you think the public will think about you ? |
| 5 | If , as has been guestimated , a draughtsman spends two-thirds of his time doing conceptual thinking , looking up tables , doing calculations , checking , etc. , and only one-third of his time with a pencil in his hand at the drawing-board , then an increase in productivity at the drawing-board itself of 300 per cent would mean an overall productivity increase in line with observed job reductions . |
| 6 | The heel is unchamfered , which means there is a sizeable lump of wood in your hand at the top of the neck , but not so much that it seriously hazards navigation on the high Ds . |