Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pron] hand at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | When the plant closed , and after trying his hand at a few other jobs , he finally settled at . |
| 8 | 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 . |