Example sentences of "[vb past] at his [adj] hand " in BNC.

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1 Her voice had grown jerky and breathless and she caught at his caressing hand .
2 He licked at his damaged hand with his enormous soft pink tongue , just like a dog washing itself .
3 But Lumberjack just leapt at his outstretched hand .
4 In horrified disbelief he stared at his empty hand .
5 Jimmy looked at his bloodied hand and then back to Cardiff , and to Cardiff 's bloodied shirt front .
6 In preparing the Bill and seeing it through Parliament , Jenkins had at his right hand Cunningham 's successor as Permanent Under Secretary of State , Sir Philip Allen .
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