Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] finger on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He lightly scored his finger on the edge of the spur , gasped and quickly dipped it in the bowl of water on the lavarium before bathing it in a little wine . |
| 2 | Zach found himself totally mesmerized and placed his finger on the page so that he would n't lose his place . |
| 3 | Britta filled her mind with thoughts of grey blankness , and kept her finger on the button she had pressed . |
| 4 | He leaned forward and tapped his finger on the table . |
| 5 | Then he put his finger on the reason : ‘ State finance was required to … safeguard overall political and social stability . ’ |
| 6 | Philip put his finger on the blue feathers that had other colours in , like petrol . |
| 7 | Keith put his finger on the paper , beside the right one , and Jinny read it out . |
| 8 | Many people doubtless came to embrace the emperor 's religion for worthier motives ; but Eusebius put his finger on the radical novelty of the condition in which Christians now found themselves . |
| 9 | But he says Shakespeare certainly put his finger on the truth when he wrote : ‘ There are more things in heaven and earth … than are dreamt in ( your ) philosophy . ’ |
| 10 | C. S. Lewis ( 1979 : 9 ) surely put his finger on the proper Christian approach to evil spirits in the preface to The Screwtape Letters : ‘ There are two equal and opposite errors into which our race can fall about the devils . |
| 11 | The hon. Gentleman put his finger on the cause of the problem — the excessive subsidies in Germany . |
| 12 | ‘ I had my finger on the button . ’ |
| 13 | He tightened his finger on the trigger but again the fragile , defenceless beauty of the deer prevented him from firing and he lowered his rifle immediately . |