Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the hand [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do n't bother to struggle against the hands or arms that are holding your throat ; they will be strong . |
| 2 | Keeping the body rigid , press with the hands until the arms are straight . |
| 3 | She was slashed on the hands as she struggled with him . |
| 4 | But the weight of the clubhead can only be felt through the hands and fingers since this is the only part of the body in contact with the club . |
| 5 | A number were unfortunate enough to be mistaken for spies after ‘ failing to heed warning challenges ’ , and got shot at , although there was only one reported death : a James Waddell of Grangemouth , near Edinburgh , was shot through the hand and heart as he was examining flood damage in the course of his employment duties . |
| 6 | Er was on a smaller scale of course and more done with the hand than machine . |
| 7 | Sometimes he thought that he 'd have liked nothing more than to be like Michael of the tarmac boys , gap-toothed and thick-headed and with no greater concern than that of pissing his money away at a speed roughly equal to that at which he made it , but he had to make do with the hand that he 'd been dealt — thin-skinned and solitary , one of nature 's observers . |
| 8 | His brother was stabbed in the hand but managed to raise the alarm . |
| 9 | But er there was a whole range of things like , Put in the hand and and erm they thought you were n't eating plenty or told to and supper . |
| 10 | Chills begin in the hands and feet with pains in the limbs ; one sided ; numbness ; fever . |
| 11 | What kind of man are you , to steal from the hand that fed you all these years ? ’ |
| 12 | ‘ The idea was to open the game up , but in fact it has increased the amount of kicking from the hand and that is counter-productive . |
| 13 | All you need for each one is a piece of knitting beginning with a hem at the wrist , wide enough to go round the hand and long enough to reach easily to the base of the fingers . |
| 14 | Her eyes closed tight shut , and her forehead came to rest on the hands that gripped the bedpost . |
| 15 | Texture in powders can be varied from a soft , readily caking powder with a soapy feel to the hand and a free flowing crystalline substance depending on the amount of neutral filler . |
| 16 | Peace and Love , the cliche of the ‘ sixties , has again become soiled by the paraffin stains on the hands that hold an assassin 's gun . |
| 17 | Albinos of any animal ( even humans ) have poor vision in strong light , so perhaps the Kigoi relies on the hand that feeds it because it is beaten to the foraging by normally-pigmented pondmates . |
| 18 | Fall-out from exhaust emissions is not only directly inhaled but can be ingested because lead settles on the hands and on vegetables , crops and fruit growing near roadsides . |
| 19 | The correct feeling must be one of turning away sufficiently and then staying turned away , holding the right side back and making the clubhead win the race , followed by the hands and with the body action then pulled through in third place . |
| 20 | This should be rubbed between the hands and smoothed over your hair for great shine . |
| 21 | The picture began to tremble in the hand that held it . |
| 22 | Davy at the end of his life remarked that the service of the laboratory was a service of danger ; that few chemists could expect to retain a quick eye and a steady hand for very long , and would have to rely on the hands and eyes of assistants . |
| 23 | The growth spurt in boys and girls often begins with the hands and feet , which is why they sometimes look a bit clumsy and act rather awkwardly , until the rest of the body catches up . |
| 24 | When a book is opened , and either held in the hand or placed on a table , the front cover and hinge are immediately subjected to strain , especially if the volume is a thick and heavy one . |
| 25 | A woman escaped uninjured but another man was burned on the hand and taken to Broadford Hospital , Skye . |