Example sentences of "hand on [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | Assets are frozen , you ca n't get your hands on them on the whole until you 've got your grant of probate or you 've made declarations if it 's a small will . |
2 | ‘ I 'll tell you quite frankly , I would n't know where to put my hands on them at the moment . |
3 | Software developers should be able to get their hands on one from the end of this month , with general availability pegged for next February when Microsoft NT arrives for it . |
4 | ‘ It assumes that he went round armed with a little pistol , or that he knew where to lay hands on one in the house . ’ |
5 | In fact sir , the County Council 's figures produced in another appendix , ca n't lay my hands on it at the moment , had put this figure in as three thousand six hundred and fifty , but the nub of those two things are , that over that six month period , we 're not only seeing more houses built but we have more consented , and that has n't affected the residue that appears in the rest of these schedules . |
6 | Betty would probably rather be in the Dordogne , but she was here making sure that Lydia did n't lay violent hands on herself in the profundity of her misery , or let herself go to seed in the spiritless fashion of an old thistle . |
7 | He 'd been so lovely , and her shoulder still burned where he 'd put a hand on it after the game . |
8 | Marsco 's cold gaze was fixed on Jinneth as she leaned forward to speak to him , her hand on his amid the clutter of the table . |