Example sentences of "[pron] hands on the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I rubbed my hands on the rough blue of my trousers . |
| 2 | I could hardly wait , for example , to get my hands on the original ballpoint pen . |
| 3 | When they have moved forwards as far as they feel they want to go they then leave one of the bottles , place both their hands on the other and have to get back without touching the the floor with any part of their body . |
| 4 | The first French skirmishers were running forward but , instead of tackling the staff officers who still lingered close to the Dutch position , they laid their hands on the abandoned gun , the first trophy of their attack . |
| 5 | How parents can spend all that money for them to run down on the chest paddling with their hands on the dirty pavement ! |
| 6 | My companions hurried on , desperate to get their hands on the seven hundred thousand pounds in gold which lay somewhere under the tree 's shadows . |
| 7 | Hands-on drivers will also enjoy getting their hands on the 944 S2 's progressive power-steering system . |
| 8 | Blind children at a college in Worcester ca n't wait to get their hands on the latest batch of adventure stories , translated into braille by computor . |
| 9 | Apparently they all had to sit in a circle and put their hands on the playing board . |
| 10 | After a moment she walked across the room and placed her hands on the two arms of the chair , effectively pinning Marianne in place . |
| 11 | Both arms plunged down into the water , but she was able to steady herself by pressing her hands on the stony bed . |
| 12 | Love , she wanted to shout , only his mirthless smile cut the word off in the throat , and then her breathing was cut off as well as he placed one of her hands on the accelerated pulse beating in his neck . |
| 13 | A one-parent family , living on scraps from the educational world , too proud to seek refuge and warm her hands on the tepid thickly painted radiators of Leeds , to cast off her jerseys and socks on the radiant central heating of Sussex , to lie half-naked in that ill-starred farmhouse in Tuscany . |
| 14 | She wiped her hands on the white T-shirt she was wearing , leaving pink smears all over it . |
| 15 | Not after she 's been waiting 200 years to get her hands on the last of the Gittels . |
| 16 | Theodora wiped her hands on the damp grass and lay down again beneath the currant bushes . |
| 17 | As I watched , Boltwood put his hands on the young man 's head . |
| 18 | Taking care not to scratch his hands on the holding spikes , he rummaged through the weed feeling for that spasm of movement which would indicate a dying fish . |
| 19 | Nolan 's method is to put his hands on the bare flesh at the point of the complaint for a minute or two . |
| 20 | John put his hands on the hot terminal caps and twisted them again . |
| 21 | had his hands on the bloody thing he , I just got his a , I just jump up . |
| 22 | He sighed and set off up the stairs again , pulling himself up by his hands on the thick , frozen rope fixed to the outside of the staircase , the castle 's concession to their earlier request for a handhold on the often ice-slicked steps . |
| 23 | He wiped his hands on the wet grass beside the grave and ordered the reluctant soldier back to secure the lid of the coffin and cover it with soil . |
| 24 | He put his hands on the marine blue wash-basin and his body sagged forward . |
| 25 | He put his hands on the big mirror , first here , then there . |
| 26 | In the words of Roger of Howden , " the young King , of his own accord and under no compulsion , laying his hands on the Holy Gospels in the presence of a large crowd of clerks and laymen , swore that from that day onward and for the rest of his life he would be loyal to King Henry , his father and his lord , and would serve him faithfully . |
| 27 | He sat down opposite Grout and clasped his hands on the large white blotter which almost covered the top of the small desk . |
| 28 | As he is not a chap to do anything by halves , to get your hands on the eight per cent SGNs you 'll have to go the whole hog and invest in ‘ Work '69 : Terres a Vin ’ , a box containing six special half-bottles ( 1 Muenchberg Riesling ‘ VV ’ , 2 Muenchberg Pinot Gris and 3 Franholz Gewurztraminer ) with handmade labels and capsules pebbledashed with vineyard soil , a piece of rock from each of the three Grand Cru vineyards and a book of Andre 's poems . |
| 29 | Place your hands on the lower part of your outer thighs so you can feel and see the muscle contractions as you squeeze . |
| 30 | Sit as shown , and place your hands on the lower thighs so you can feel the leg muscle contractions . |