Example sentences of "[pron] hand at [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She ca n't know how I value my freedom , Donald , the freedom to do what I like and take advantage of the opportunity to explore a new city , learn a new language , try my hand at a way of life I did n't know existed . |
| 2 | In the first few months when I came out of the Navy I 'd tried my hand at a couple of things , and then my mother phoned me up one day and said there 's this job going at Drogo . |
| 3 | I have a pee , then I wash my hands at the sink . |
| 4 | WHO throws up its hands at the whole , loud confrontation . |
| 5 | Bazille was killed a few months before his twenty-ninth birthday in the Franco-Prussian war , and since then scholars have been wringing their hands at the loss of a potential ‘ great Impressionist ’ , discounting the possibility that he could equally have evolved into a third-rate artist like Sisley or Morisot . |
| 6 | It 's in their hands at the moment er as far as I know they are going to let us know that in the very near future , certainly long before the ballot papers are actually distributed to members . |
| 7 | ‘ I do n't need one , ’ Theda returned , brushing the back of her hand at a lock of hair which was blowing across her face . |
| 8 | The knife raked her side , but she ignored the pain and struck out with the flat of her hand at the psycho 's chin . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I also think that there is n't a woman alive who would n't like to have a companion to be there with a cup of tea when she 's in bed with the flu and a high temperature , or holding her hand at the surgery when she 's awaiting the result of a test . |
| 11 | Sarah waved her hand at the girl , her voice sounding more confident than she actually felt . |
| 12 | One evening , in the summer of 1974 , when Susan checked her hands at the scanner , … |
| 13 | She cleaned the brush she was using then washed her hands at the sink . |
| 14 | There are many things on her hands at the moment . |
| 15 | I agree with Eldon Snyder and Elmer Spreitzer that : ‘ Like all of education , physical education should provide opportunities for students to try their hand at a variety of activities as sources of possible self-realization . |
| 16 | Great cars helped to develop great drivers and wealthy Britons Lord Howe and Sir Henry Birkin were two of the many aristocrats that tried their hand at the sport . |
| 17 | Here Abie threw up his hands at the ignorance of policemen . |
| 18 | When father and son were alone David stood warming his hands at the brazier , and looking down with a clouded face into the red glow . |
| 19 | He could meet the woman in the shop , pass through the curtain in the back make sure her husband was out , and fuck her , that 's what was being asked of him ; then help her , drop a word in the police chief 's ear , shrug his shoulders and wave his hands at the severity of the charges , promise on his professional honour that such a boy was hardly a threat . |
| 20 | Well fortunately the Spanish were even more incompetent than he was and what the Spanish commander , instead of rubbing his hands at the prospect of er the damage they were about to wreak , he discovered that they had the wrong calibre shells for their guns and Roosevelt and the Rough Riders overran the Spanish guns a and Teddy Roosevelt became a war hero and on the strength of becoming a war hero , he become vice president of the United States , got the vice presidential nomination and in good American fashion the president was shot er by an assassin er and Teddy Roosevelt became president , so there you are , there 's a there 's a career plan for you to er to think about . |
| 21 | Gosforth still have to play their Northumberland Cup semi-final against Tynedale on April 14 , and if they win Johnson will be rubbing his hands at the prospect of a big score in the final against Novos or Seghill . |
| 22 | I offered my thanks to the interviewer for seeing me and shook his/her hand at the end . |
| 23 | By the end of the seventeenth century the high-street undertaker was trying his hand at the technique , much to the chagrin of the surgeons and the apothecaries . |
| 24 | In 1984 he married a French woman , and the following year travelled to France to try his hand at the colour photography which seemed so popular in European magazines . |
| 25 | Despite pleas from his mother , Jackie was next to try his hand at the sport . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | He waved his hand at the firewood . |
| 28 | I had only a brief opportunity of shaking his hand at the end , as I was obliged to rush back to Oxford before I was ‘ gated ’ . |
| 29 | Ramlal stabbed his hand at the bell to summon the next petitioner . |
| 30 | ‘ Which is why you decided to try your hand at a kind of modelling that would pay better , ’ he said . |