Example sentences of "[num] [noun sg] [prep] [art] hands " in BNC.
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| 1 | With five volunteers from the 400-plus crowd , a 12–1 defeat at the hands of the soldiers was not a bad start . |
| 2 | Milan , who faltered at the weekend with a 3-0 defeat at the hands of the current league leaders , Napoli , have slipped to seventh place , partly because of the absence of van Basten and his compatriot , Ruud Gullit , who is seeing a doctor on Monday about his cartilage injury . |
| 3 | There is no way they can not go all the way yet again ’ — CIARAN FITZGERALD ( Ireland coach ) after the 38–9 drubbing at the hands of England at Twickenham . |
| 4 | Accor , a hotel group , took the Motel 6 chain off the hands of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts ( which had bought it a year earlier in an LBO ) for FFr7 billion at around the same time . |
| 5 | But a 5–1 beating at the hands of Haslemere would not have improved Hammer 's morale for the cup task ahead . |
| 6 | After all , " he added , smiling at Grace as she brought in another pot of tea , " my poor bewildered senses have already suffered one assault at the hands of your delicious mother . " |
| 7 | At first sight it is a pretty enough spectacle to see a matchbox made ; one motion of the hands bends into shape the notched frame of the case , another surrounds it with the ready-pasted strip of painted wrapper , which , by long practice is fitted instinctively without a wrinkle , then the sandpaper or phosphorous paper , pasted ready beforehand , is applied and pressed on so that it sticks fast . |
| 8 | The Cathedral Hotel , next door , was also at one time in the hands of the Wilkes family and it first came to my notice when an extra floor was added in 1922/23 . |
| 9 | A week is a long time in football , seven days in fact , but somehow a reversal of February 's 11–0 defeat at the hands of today 's opponents would prove that Lazarus does n't have the last word in comebacks , and we are still a team to be reckoned with . |
| 10 | Ireland had crashed to a 145-90 defeat at the hands of the English losing out on all six rinks , and looked to have little chance when they took on the Scots , who had beaten defending champions Wales 130-100 in their opener . |
| 11 | ENGLAND B were left to reflect on what might have been after missing a couple of vital tackles in their 20-16 defeat at the hands of South Africa at Bristol . |
| 12 | Richardson 's Garvey colleague Dan Clarke will win his 50th cap in the game , and will be hoping that the Irish can improve on the 4-1 defeat at the hands of England when they last met in the Centenary Trophy staged in Dublin in June . |
| 13 | Scotland trailed in last in the Boys Quadrangular International , yesterday at Is Molas , Sardinia , after following Saturday 's defeat against France with a 8-4 loss at the hands of host nation Italy . |