Example sentences of "hand [coord] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | take your boots off ( if indoors ) and rub your feet with your hands or warm them on someone else 's tummy ( this really sorts out your friends and do n't worry you ca n't catch verrucae this way ) . |
| 2 | He gave one last poke with the bat and , throwing it to the ground , clasped both hands and raised them above his head . |
| 3 | There are two classes of printers , one called newspaper hands and set nothing but solid matter ; and properly trained compositors who have been taught to do jobbing , tabular work and everything . " |
| 4 | Meredith marched across , grasped his pullover in both hands and dragged him off the pillows to shake him violently . |
| 5 | ‘ The film will feature interviews with victims of male aggression in Ireland , Nicaragua , Palestine and Hackney , focusing on the need for women everywhere to join hands and liberate ourselves from the yoke of anti-female oppression , ’ said the letter . |
| 6 | He reached out to take one of her hands and hold it between both his own . |
| 7 | She picked the onions up between cupped hands and dropped them into the frying pan on the cooker . |
| 8 | Giles leaned forward ; he took her face between his hands and kissed her on the mouth . |
| 9 | Izzie came and gave the cups into Gabriel 's hands and kissed him on the forehead . |
| 10 | There were three soldiers for every nun ; they tied our hands and took us to a small room , two soldiers pushing each nun . |
| 11 | Henry took the heavily laden tray from Peggy 's hands and put it on a side-table as Lizzie said , ‘ Did she have her dinner and tea all at once ? ’ |
| 12 | He snatched the girlie magazine from his comrade 's hands and tossed it on the seat . |
| 13 | Sorrel watched him for a few seconds , then snatched it out of his hands and stuck it in her mouth . |
| 14 | He came to her , taking her hands and drawing her to her feet , just standing there looking down at her as she found herself quite incapable of resisting . |
| 15 | She tried to slide past him but he swung round with her , catching both her hands and holding her in front of him . |
| 16 | He got the ends of the belt around his hands and wound them into a good , tight grip . |
| 17 | I stop to put a condom on , then climb onto the bed behind her , put the knife onto the sheets just within reach , grip her hips with both hands and pull her onto my cock . |
| 18 | She took one of his hands and pressed it to the bodice of her gown . |
| 19 | It is so easy to hold a good roach , deep of body and broad of shoulder in your hands and dismiss it without accurate weighing as ’ two pounds ’ . |
| 20 | Using the trowel she chipped at the ground outside the door , prising cold earth from among the prickly stems and broken bricks , gathering it with her hands and putting it into the bucket . |
| 21 | He took her hands and crushed them between his . |
| 22 | ‘ God , you 're beautiful , ’ he muttered fiercely , holding one breast in his hands and raising it to his mouth . |
| 23 | He sat on the top step , raised the automatic with both hands and aimed it at the arm that was writhing in the aperture below . |
| 24 | She grabbed his hands and removed them from her bottom . |
| 25 | Drachenfels moved among them , laughing as he squeezed heads in his hands and shattered them like rotted fruits . |
| 26 | He jabbed out both hands and ripped hers from over her ears , pinning them to her sides , grinding , ‘ We both know you 're a little scrubber . |
| 27 | The construction of spontaneous housing settlements and the way this has induced several governments to support self-help schemes demonstrates the way squatters have taken the situation into their own hands and provided themselves with some sort of shelter . |
| 28 | He took both Karen 's hands and pulled her to her feet . |
| 29 | I did not know what to say in reply , so I took his hands and held them beside my own , showing first the backs , then the palms , then measuring them one against the other , palm to palm — something the Japanese would often do in comparing their smaller , lighter hands with my grosser ones . |
| 30 | He grabbed at my hands and held them to his chest and begged me not to say such a thing . |