Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [prep] the hands " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the sport and television market appears to be a free-for-all to delight the most Darwinist of entrepreneurs , a scrutiny of those top five private networks soon reveals that four of them are in the hands of a holding firm called Finvest , which is itself the broadcasting vehicle of the Socialist-leaning businessman Silvio Berlusconi . |
| 2 | She started off as a journalist , and when reading her on the nauseating cult of Elizabeth David , you know you are in the hands of a mistress of rhetoric . |
| 3 | ‘ She 's in the hands of the doctors and we have to accept that . |
| 4 | Marcus Judge lifted his face to the dark rain-clouds , and intoned : ‘ She is in the hands of the Almighty . |
| 5 | ‘ We are at the bedside of the girl and are now starting to piece together what happened to her in the six hours she was in the hands of this maniac . |
| 6 | Clearly we are in the hands of a great master with this wallpaper ’ . |
| 7 | ‘ We are in the hands of Allah , ’ he said . |
| 8 | We had a good meeting today , the problems were explained to the interested parties and now we are in the hands of the Football League . ’ |
| 9 | the main explanation why so long to reply is very much geared to the fact that we are in the hands of the Electricity Board for everything below the junction box on the street lighted column , if the bolt is in the cable , or a cable junction or in a circuit we are in the hands in another organization totally , who will have their own timescales and priority to responses . |
| 10 | the main explanation why so long to reply is very much geared to the fact that we are in the hands of the Electricity Board for everything below the junction box on the street lighted column , if the bolt is in the cable , or a cable junction or in a circuit we are in the hands in another organization totally , who will have their own timescales and priority to responses . |
| 11 | But we 're in the hands obviously of the Health Authority . |
| 12 | Tt er well we had like I I say , we w we were i we were in the hands we were in the hands of the er Italian army , the er regular army from Italy , we were in their hands er for quite some time . |
| 13 | Tt er well we had like I I say , we w we were i we were in the hands we were in the hands of the er Italian army , the er regular army from Italy , we were in their hands er for quite some time . |
| 14 | Everything was seized … they are in the hands of the KGB . ’ |
| 15 | They were in the hands of vested interests , not in possession of the facts , ’ said Mr Roberts . |
| 16 | Apparently , they 've issued a description and it 's in the hands of the police . ’ |
| 17 | Actually the healing is not usually in the wings it 's in the hands that come out from the sun and the healing is the of Ancient Egypt which meant life , spirit and er and health . |
| 18 | Sh I rang er my lo local councillor an h he looked into it , an he said , er it 's in the hands now of the Electricity Board . |
| 19 | SELECT THE RIGHT TOY FOR THE RIGHT AGED CHILD A safe toy becomes a danger if it is in the hands of too young a child . |
| 20 | One of the things that 's wrong with British shipping is that too much of it is in the hands of ancient mariners , dyed-in-the-wool shipping families that have n't had a new idea since the days of sail . |
| 21 | It is in the hands of the Jockey Club and police . |
| 22 | Faced with a client , his mental confidence and the alert efficiency it engenders must automatically be impressed upon the client , so that at once the client feels that he is in the hands of an expert , into whose capable hands all matters concerned with the funeral can be safely delivered . |
| 23 | he 's in the hands of these people here , who tell him what to do and what not to do |
| 24 | This time it was at the hands of Grimsby Town . |
| 25 | By the end of the 18th century it was in the hands of John Sutton . |
| 26 | A century later , it was in the hands of Edward Webb , followed by his son , Thomas . |
| 27 | From the middle until the close of the century , it was in the hands of the Escourt family . |
| 28 | During the 1880s and 1890s , the miller was Francis William Giles , by 1914 it was in the hands of James Faulks and between 1927 up to shortly before the Second World War , William George Perry . |
| 29 | By the early 1930s , it was in the hands of John Henry Lawrence , who continued to work it until the mid-1950s . |
| 30 | Then it was in the hands of the Foley family , who were also operating Guns mill at Abenhall . |