Example sentences of "passed from hand [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suddenly everyone was talking about One Flew Over The Cuckoo 's Nest and a copy passed from hand to hand . |
| 2 | She was passed from hand to hand . |
| 3 | There was scarcely a divinity student in Cambridge , says a contemporary , who ‘ made not himself a disciple of Mr Andrewes by resorting to his lectures and transcribing his notes , and ever since they have in many hundreds of copies passed from hand to hand and have been esteemed a very library to young divines ’ . |
| 4 | Champagne corks popped inside the East Ham home and there was a special chocolate pudding for Farrah , who was passed from hand to hand . |
| 5 | Each time a bucket is passed from hand to hand , a little water is spilt . |
| 6 | It had been passed from hand to hand along a chain of trusted men until it came into his own , its message comprehensible only to his eyes . |
| 7 | The single stone with which it was set , opaque in browns and golds , passed from hand to hand like a glowing eye . |