Example sentences of "in his [adj] hand he " in BNC.
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| 1 | The beggarman just stood there , eyes wide in horror , mouth slack ; in his upraised hand he held by the hair the decapitated head of Adam Horne , alderman and merchant . |
| 2 | In his right hand he held the barrel of a Kalashnikov rifle , its wooden butt resting on the roadway . |
| 3 | In his right hand he 's holding a curved knife with a short wooden handle . |
| 4 | In his right hand he carried a long machete , but it was the crazed look in his eyes that really shook the young policeman . |
| 5 | In his right hand he carries the magical black sword Kring , which was forged from a thunderbolt and has a soul but suffers no scabbard . |
| 6 | In his right hand he was holding his slipper . |
| 7 | It was impossible , from this distance , to see what he was wearing on his feet , but it seemed likely that he was one short of a full complement of shoes , because in his right hand he was holding a large , brown , elastic-sided boot . |
| 8 | In his four hands he holds a sceptre , a string of beads , a bow and a book of scripture . |
| 9 | In his hooded hand he felt a terrible clutching cramp that would not allow him to move his fingers . |
| 10 | In his left hand he held a pocket Philips dictaphone into which he would occasionally confide ; in his right , a pencil poised over a reporter 's pad . |
| 11 | In his left hand he held the torch . |