Example sentences of "hand [coord] [v-ing] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Benjamin 's shoulders shook as he controlled the bubble of laughter , but Henry sat back , clapping his hands and grinning from ear to ear like some bloody cat . |
| 2 | After washing their hands and putting on hospital gowns and caps , they were able to go in , and found Faye and Bill alone together in the dimly-lit room . |
| 3 | Gillian and I were falling in love and you 'd think we 'd have wanted to be by ourselves all the time , gazing into one another 's eyes and holding hands and going to bed together . |
| 4 | He had gone to the limit as a babbling idiot , wringing his hands and begging for reasonableness from a woman who loathed his mother-worshipping love . |
| 5 | She wanted to be noticed in all her finery and as she walked up the aisle she kept stopping to give a little cough on the back of her hand and looking from side to side . |
| 6 | found a negative , though not highly significant , correlation between infant mortality on one hand and spending on community health services and hospital services on the other ; more important , they found a strong positive correlation between social class and both kinds of spending . |
| 7 | It was all beneath his dignity , this business of charging around with rifles in your hand and going on parade . |