Example sentences of "[verb] her hand [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ At that time , ’ recalls Vivien , who was the first British player to try her hand on the American Tour , ‘ the LPGA needed all the publicity and good will it could get . |
| 2 | She has her hand on the door , and I have my gun pointing at her chest . |
| 3 | Both arms plunged down into the water , but she was able to steady herself by pressing her hands on the stony bed . |
| 4 | She moved her hand across the table , touched his arm , squeezed it for comfort . |
| 5 | Despairingly she moved her hands along the slender curves of her body , naked between the sheets . |
| 6 | She moved her hands among the leaves of the tomato plants , liking their roughness and hairiness , their harsh earthy smell , a bit sour , like that of geraniums . |
| 7 | Mrs Stych wrung her hands behind the reporter 's back , and wished passionately she could run home to Mother on the pig farm ; she longed suddenly for the smell of hens and milk , for a place where nobody had to keep up appearances or be other than what they were . |
| 8 | The carer stands with her legs on either side of the patient 's knees , places her hands under the patient 's seat , pulls his body-weight forward and in one movement lifts his pelvis and pivots him so that he sits down onto the chair . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | As she clenched her hands on the rail until they hurt , she fought to hate him , to make herself angry , not to give in to the terrible despair that kept threatening to overwhelm her . |
| 11 | She could sense Guy watching her with narrowed attention , and clenched her hands inside the pockets of her suede waistcoat , battling to get her reactions under control . |
| 12 | She offers her hand in the Masai manner , her head bowed . |
| 13 | Ronni stuffed her hands into the pockets of her pink Bermudas , which perfectly matched her pale pink T-shirt . |
| 14 | She laid her hands on the top of his shoulders and kneaded the base of his neck with her thumbs . |
| 15 | As she laid her hand on the little mare 's neck , she quivered violently , but did n't move away . |
| 16 | In George Henry Lee 's restaurant a middle-aged lady wearing purple and accompanied by a string quartet sang ‘ Tea for Two ’ , circling her hands in the air as though pushing away cobwebs . |
| 17 | She wiped her hands on the white T-shirt she was wearing , leaving pink smears all over it . |
| 18 | Theodora wiped her hands on the damp grass and lay down again beneath the currant bushes . |
| 19 | She wiped her hands on the backside of her shorts . |
| 20 | She brushed the white flowers and wiped her hand on the earth . |
| 21 | The charged alleged that the girl placed her hand over the baby 's mouth , compressed her nose to the danger of her life , and attempted to murder her . |
| 22 | In other incidents she might simply have placed her hand over the child 's mouth or nose , or interfered with its oxygen supply with ‘ dramatic consequence ’ . |
| 23 | She clapped her hand over the bit he was peering at . |
| 24 | When she got her hands on the bugger , that was . |
| 25 | One evening , in the summer of 1974 , when Susan checked her hands at the scanner , … |
| 26 | She leaned forward and passed her hand through the flames of the small fire , letting its glow and its heat excite the ancient in her . |
| 27 | She passed her hand over the surface . |
| 28 | Jennifer held her breath with excitement as the older woman passed her hands over the misty sphere and stared into its centre . |
| 29 | When Georg came in to lunch , covered in cow muck and mud , the converging smells caused Frau Trauffer to wave her hand in the air and give a disgusted ‘ Phaw ! ’ |
| 30 | She dried her hands on the kitchen towel , adding , ‘ I worry about Ernest . |