Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [prep] [adj] hand " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I encountered at first hand the sufferings of un-dernourished children and out-of-work ironstone miners and their impoverished families , ’ he writes . |
| 2 | The bedding which I observed at first hand in 1954 in the peasant community of Pul Eliya was nothing like as grand as the stereotype ; but , apart from some minor differences , it had all the same elements and for the most part they occurred in just the same sequence . |
| 3 | I could partly understand Sally 's comments because I heard at second hand from Jack Mason about the bickering that went on between manufacturers and the players ' agents about contracts . |
| 4 | When I first met John Hurt in 1977 , when he was in Devon filming The Shout , I saw at first hand how much he drank . |
| 5 | Thus I saw at first hand the developing excitement within the scientific community on two continents as thousands of us changed research programmes literally overnight and attempted to replicate the phenomenon . |
| 6 | I saw at first hand what a regressive prison regime does to prisoners . |
| 7 | ‘ I saw at first hand the problems Linfield had with travel arrangements and communications … give me Belfast every time . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I saw at first hand the problems Linfield had with travel arrangements and communications … give me Belfast every time . ’ |
| 9 | PAMELA : Since I must not say what I think on one hand nor on the other , let me depart your presence . |
| 10 | She got out as soon as she could , and found work in the weaving sheds — " she was a good weaver ; six looms under her by the time she was sixteen " — marry , produce nine children , eight of whom emigrated to the cotton mills of Massachusetts before the First World War , managed , " never went before the Guardians " .1 It was much , much later that I learned from One Hand Tied Behind Us that four was the usual number of looms for a Lancashire weaver ; Burnley weavers were not well organised , and my great-grandmother had six not because she was a good weaver but because she was exploited . " |
| 11 | and before them a knight of great stature upon a white horse with a bloody cross , who bore in one hand a white banner , and in the other a sword which seemed to be of fire , and he made a great mortality among the Moors who were flying . |
| 12 | Picture her , Tabitha Jute : not as the net media show her , heroine of hyperspace , capable , canny and cosmetically enhanced , smiling confidently as she reaches with one hand for the spangled mist of the Milky Way ; but a small , weary young woman in a cracked foil jacket and oil-stained trousers , determinedly elbowing herself through an exuberant Schiaparelli crowd . |
| 13 | Well once I 've got you know once I 've got the shape of the story in my mind I can it down in an hour or so every time you know it 's in long hand , then it takes me hours to type it but er you know the actual once I 've got the idea I I find it necessary to get it all down you know in long hand as quickly as possible . |
| 14 | She saw at first hand the imperialist arrogance of the British in her mother country , aptly illustrated by the signs in the parks which baldly stated ‘ no dogs or Chinese allowed ’ . |
| 15 | She waves with one hand and points with another . |
| 16 | We are also pleased to welcome two new Word Processor Operators to the ACDP Unit : , who has worked with the Council for some time , first of all in General Office Services and latterly in the Assessment Department ; and , who comes with first hand knowledge of Advanced Courses , having recently completed an HNC in Secretarial Studies at Motherwell College . |
| 17 | She held up the sports bag she held in one hand . |
| 18 | In this case it will be as well not to use the bass drum and cymbals simultaneously ( they do not really go particularly well together ) , so that the cymbals can be played in the proper way , one held in each hand . |
| 19 | How will the hard men of the IRA react , when they hear at first hand what harm they are doing to everything they say they stand for ? |
| 20 | Some of them even have to be parents when they get home where they see at first hand the pressures to supply children with fashionable merchandise . |
| 21 | Secondment is an opportunity for them to learn at first hand about the world of work to which their students are aspiring . |
| 22 | He hurried through the open doorway into the house and a few seconds later reappeared carrying a rifle which he passed from one hand to the other as |
| 23 | He has in one hand a stick and is followed by a thin dog . |
| 24 | In the jeep , he drove with one hand , putting the other over hers on her knee . |
| 25 | Then he hangs from one hand while feeling about with the other in his chalk-bag . |
| 26 | He walked with one hand in his trouser pocket and the other grasping the blanket over his shoulder . |
| 27 | He learned at first hand the economic geography of the regnum francorum . |
| 28 | An irony of the Budget was that what it gave with one hand it took away with the other . |
| 29 | Yes that seems to me to fit that sort of bill , erm to be quite honest I would prefer that we base the promises on a previous paper that T six six one , er you know , sort of er typical success of the fact looking forward cos at least erm that 's not so erm , you know , sort of difficult to erm you know achieve as erm sort of repairing potholes within , when you consider that the reason that the potholes do n't get mended is because government legislation has it that we have to actually erm have lines painted all round them , so that they can be part of the package of er road mending in many cases , I mean urgently erm difficult ones are not that common er so I think that perhaps some of these promises are so difficult because it gives with one hand and takes back with the other , you know , it says we promise , but , I , I would say that 's not much of a promise , you say I promise to erm , you know , erm merge , I forgot about , but if it said but , you know , if it rains I wo n't tell you , er it would be very sad |
| 30 | This time he carried in one hand , carefully cupped , a broad leaf filled with honey ; in the other hand he grasped a few nuts which he thrust out to Marian with an air of uncertainty as though he feared they might be rejected as the maggots were . |