Example sentences of "our hand " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Flemyng forces us out , then we will have nothing left but our hands . ’ |
| 2 | For a short time we got on without much difficulty , but we were soon obliged to have recourse to our hands and knees , and clamber thus from one crag to another . |
| 3 | His willingness to accept violation and destruction at our hands out of love for us the loving obedience to his Father is the darkness of the aboriginal prayer , the prayer that makes sense of any other prayer , the mystery of hope at the heart of hopelessness that Dr Spufford refers to in the death of Robert Aske . |
| 4 | That is why the prayer of the Church as such , the Eucharistic meal which expresses and celebrates joyfully the community of the Church and the ultimate unity of humankind is the sacrament of bodily suffering , of the sacrificial death of Christ at our hands . |
| 5 | The Government 's decision to deport him is regrettable , but the matter is out of our hands . ’ |
| 6 | As a peasant from the Kursk guberniia put it in 1922 : ‘ We are not for priests nor for the church , but if only the Comrades would give us a little of what they promise : they promise a school and Socialism , but our hands are still as empty as ever . ’ |
| 7 | The difficulty here is best demonstrated when Honderich , analyzing the notion that Conservatism is a ‘ defence of the familiar ’ , argues that if this were central to Conservatism ‘ we should have a mystery on our hands , the mystery of how an egregious idiocy could have become a large political tradition ’ . |
| 8 | It fell into our hands . ’ |
| 9 | There was talk before the start of the competition having become more intense ; of the gap between McLaren and the rest having been reduced to the point where we might have a race on our hands . |
| 10 | Also , if we are cold , warming our hands in front of the fire is very comforting . |
| 11 | Their wellbeing is in our hands , so it 's our job to ensure they leave feeling uplifted . ’ |
| 12 | There were three soldiers for every nun ; they tied our hands and took us to a small room , two soldiers pushing each nun . |
| 13 | Then they attacked us one by one with electric sticks while our hands were handcuffed behind our backs . |
| 14 | You begin to enjoy the way people can say ‘ The National Health Service is safe in our hands ’ or ‘ Nobody deplores apartheid more than we do ’ or even ‘ We do not have a shoot-to-kill policy ’ and you know that another hospital is going to close and that there will be another stitch-up with Pretoria and that another shooting is going to be quietly forgotten . |
| 15 | You must take our hands and show us the way , like Mum did . |
| 16 | ‘ Our best developed areas are those which deal with the elaboration of motor skills made possible by our hands , while cetaceans seem to concentrate on areas of social perception . |
| 17 | Safe in Our Hands |
| 18 | So was the health service safe in our hands ? |
| 19 | We 'd have a full scale fight on our hands with those guys if we went ahead with that proposal ! ’ |
| 20 | What double weathers in our hands |
| 21 | ‘ Friends , ’ she continued turning her back on him , ‘ by a miracle the settlement has fallen into our hands and I can tell you that the late Lord Chatwin left everything to his son and heir . ’ |
| 22 | May 20–26 has been designated ‘ One World ’ week by 18 national TV stations : it kicks off with a German production , The World In Our Hands , which highlights global issues from pollution to Third World debt , and ends with One World , One Voice , a two-hour musical chain letter masterminded by Kevin Godley and featuring 150 international musicians . |
| 23 | Looking back at those debates on how we could fill in the time on our hands , the novelist Herbert Gold reflected that the Fifties were a time of ‘ happy people with happy problems ’ . |
| 24 | It sounded lame , but his nocturnal practices were his own affair ; we had something serious on our hands . |
| 25 | The following year the new President , a Presbyterian , had to repeat the injunction , this time directed at the gallery , insisting that there be no applause , either ‘ by our hands , and still less by our feet ’ . |
| 26 | At this breaking of day and at this dawning of a new year may we have the courage to put our hands into the hand of God . |
| 27 | ‘ If only we could devise a safe way of laying our hands on all that money , ’ murmured Pugwash , whose greed was as proverbial as his cowardice . |
| 28 | We fought at close range , not more than twenty steps apart , and drove the soldiers back upon their main lines , leaving their dead in our hands . |
| 29 | The kidney-shaped ridge was in our hands . |
| 30 | ‘ I 'll 'av to tell yew girls to gaou , ’ wailed Mrs Sugden , and Wendy and I felt a frisson of mirth , quickly and ashamedly suppressed , at the way fate had played into our hands . |