Example sentences of "hand [v-ing] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her eyes flew open as Roman kissed her again , his hands stroking the soft shoulders , revealed by her scanty nightdress . |
| 2 | Despite the availability of hardware for the automated conversion of geographic data from paper maps to digital form ( e.g. optical scanners ) much data input to GIS is still done by hand using a digitizing table . |
| 3 | Fringes or selvedges that become partially detached can be carefully sewn back by hand using a matching coloured thread of the same material . |
| 4 | A wobbling of the stepping stone , a panicky leap — and I landed sprawling on a soft , spongy blanket of sphagnum moss : to find the fingers of my right hand touching a small plant — which I instantly recognised as the common sundew . |
| 5 | The woman brought me a chair as I bent over her , both my hands enclosing the weak one which lay on the bedcovers . |
| 6 | Travis responded with a groan , his hand seeking the swift rise and fall of her breast beneath her jumper . |
| 7 | The Lad stood for a moment , his hands caressing the formless thing . |
| 8 | The left hand paying the right hand . |
| 9 | Opened up , it contains only a rapid sketch of the artist 's hand holding a supplicatory top hat , above the characteristic signature . |
| 10 | It was a ghostly hand holding a lighted candle , and the luckless man who beheld it knew that it was a portent of his death . |
| 11 | It allowed a splinter party , Swapo-Democrats , to appropriate and register the symbol which Swapo used for nearly 30 years , a hand holding a flaming torch . |
| 12 | The sight of the two customers that entered this time stayed her hand holding the small brass scoop that was about to transfer a minute amount of coconut chips to the scale . |
| 13 | As we watched a German soldier — his hands above his head — one hand holding the white flag , was now in the centre of the road , facing in our direction ; he beckoned us to approach . |
| 14 | But she was relied on to be correct , so no-one disturbed her as she worked , her arthritic hands holding a stubby pencil , her long , old-fashioned mask covering her mouth as she murmured to herself . |
| 15 | She advanced on her daughter , caught sight of the red and ruined hands holding the shabby bag , drew in her breath , and said , ‘ What on earth , Sally-Anne , have you been doing to , or with , your hands ? ’ |
| 16 | She accepted his gesture of courtesy , the touch of his hand sending an unexpected thrill shooting through her system . |
| 17 | Not to worry , even without an extra mast , quite good results can be obtained by hand feeding the additional yarns . |
| 18 | His lips savaged hers , his hand kneading the tender flesh at her hip as though he would make her one with him . |
| 19 | Although this implies fixing something that 's broken , it is more to do with hand finishing a woven carpet . |
| 20 | Hans Ebert stood by the open hatchway of the transporter , his left hand gripping the overhead strap tightly as the craft rose steeply from the mountainside . |
| 21 | She looked up at him with wide grey eyes , her lips parted softly , and he tightened her to him , his hand gripping the long , wet hair darkened further by the water . |
| 22 | This will result in the balls from either hand having a different trajectory so that they will not ‘ kiss ’ in the air . |
| 23 | She squatted down to peer through the glass and saw a headscarf printed with Scottie dogs and a hand clutching a potted plant with its leaves torn off . |
| 24 | The old lady would n't reach him in that time ; but the assistant saw her swing her right arm forward , the hand clutching a furled umbrella by its ferrule. the crook of the umbrella hooked inside the front of the little boy 's blazer and hooked him like a fish from water out of the path of the skidding car . |
| 25 | Moreover , the Germans had no desire to be saddled with more of BAOR 's sector of the front : they had enough on their hands under-pinning the Dutch and Belgian corps , whose military worth they had good reasons to doubt in the late 1950s . |
| 26 | Over Aurae Phiala the April dusk closed very softly and calmly , like a hand crushing a silvery moth . |
| 27 | Rourke held her close , his hand tracing the slender column of her throat , his lips nuzzling the smooth pathway where his fingers led . |
| 28 | Barnett swung away from the bar , his hand finding the slippery handle of the knife . |
| 29 | She threw it away , then fumbled in the bag , her hand finding the solid objects racked neatly in its side . |
| 30 | They rested on elbows , or lay stretched like Stars , stomachs in sand , smooth heads together , a brown hand lifting a white cigarette to a rose-painted mouth , and a line of malachite green smoke going up into the air , which was not here the intense cobalt of the plain of Orange , but pearl-cream-gold , a heavy air , soft and undulating like the pale sand and beyond it the warm , hazed , sand-green sea . |