Example sentences of "his left hand " in BNC.
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| 1 | AI has appealed to President Alberto Fujimori for a prompt investigation into a bomb attack on Dr Augusto Zúñiga opened a letter bomb which blew off his left hand and forearm . |
| 2 | ‘ With his left hand he snatched the gun from the Pole 's hands , and with his right he gave him a violent blow to the ear . ’ |
| 3 | His right hand caressed the gear stick while his left hand constantly fiddled with the knobs on the radio cassette , ensuring that the coach was flooded with , continuous stream of heavy metal . |
| 4 | B — can not get loose and seems to be choking and the crowd are on their feet yelling and waving their hands — the referee helped by both seconds manages to extricate B — but P — grabs him , a quick aeroplane spin , gets him with his left hand round the shoulder , right hand through his left , swings him three times round in the air and pins him with his shoulders on the floor for the count of three . |
| 5 | The son of Poseidon and Amphitrite was called Triton , and was usually represented as half-man , half-dolphin , holding in his left hand an upright dolphin that suggests an erect penis . |
| 6 | It was mightily impressive bowling by any standards , and with his left hand in plaster it was quite remarkable . |
| 7 | Then he ran his finger round his neck and held up three fingers of his left hand . |
| 8 | Clasper threw the useless microphone to the ground and thrust a rolled up newspaper aloft , which he brandished furiously in his left hand . |
| 9 | She had told him a tale , looking slyly at him while she played with his left hand . |
| 10 | In confusion and panic he felt behind him with his left hand for the door-handle , pushing the handle down and edging his way round the door . |
| 11 | Holding up the edge of the pillow with his left hand , Mungo reached under with his right to take out the striped pyjamas . |
| 12 | Holding tight with his left hand , he then leaned as far forward with his right as he dared and managed to prop the twig in the gap he had created . |
| 13 | Now Craganour had gone half a length up , but Aboyeur fought back as Piper sought to straighten him by taking his whip in his left hand and applying it liberally . |
| 14 | A man who was very friendly with another , or his senior kinsmen , could adopt a more expository technique : he would sit facing him and take his left hand ; as he made his points he would take his friend 's little finger , move it away from the others and hold it : ‘ first … ‘ then the next finger : ‘ second … ‘ ; until he had moved the digits all to one side , like beads on an abacus . |
| 15 | The champion jockey had been waving the whip in his left hand and when he put it down inside the last furlong , I must say that the clear impression from behind my glasses was that he thought the race was over . |
| 16 | One of the men , Declan Derek Duffy , 19 , known as ‘ Wacko , ’ has tattooed on his left hand the initials INLA — standing for Irish National Liberation Army which has claimed responsibility for the murder of Sgt Michael Newman , 34 . |
| 17 | He is extensively tattooed , with one on his right forearm of a rifle and a red star and on his left hand the initials INLA . |
| 18 | He has a tattoo of a swallow on his upper left arm and on his left hand a diamond on the first finger , heart on the second , club on the third and spade on the fourth . |
| 19 | He has a heart tattooed on his left hand and the initial F on his left forearm . |
| 20 | With the blood specimen in his left hand … he started along the main corridor on his way toward the stairs . |
| 21 | Then he will say to those on his left hand , ‘ The curse is upon you ; go from my sight to the eternal fire that is ready for the devil and his angels . |
| 22 | He tried to slap Jeane Russell with his left hand , but she backed out of the way and just laughed at him . |
| 23 | Striped blazer with brass buttons , tennis ‘ whites ’ , blue shoes with white spats , a pair of kid gloves held casually in his left hand , here was young , working-class Glasgow out on a spree . |
| 24 | Floating Gomez up on to his shoulders , he held him there with his left hand while pulling steadily with his right . |
| 25 | Marcus , who had been leaning forward , relaxed his pose and began to massage his left hand with his right . |
| 26 | He let his left hand dangle , inspecting it as if it were an alien object . |
| 27 | ‘ Oh well , ’ said Marcus , capturing his left hand again , ‘ I suppose it 's about what makes human consciousness possible , or rather it 's about what human consciousness is , which is to say what , and how , the world is , how anything is . |
| 28 | He raised his left hand to touch and grasp Lachlan 's plaid . |
| 29 | Now place around the head of this statue angels ; place in his left hand a sword ; and light in his realistically enamelled eyes a welcome and a promise such as I had never , never in all my years seen . |
| 30 | And then O placed his right hand in the small of Boy 's back and put his left hand up behind Boy 's head and he kissed him right there and then . |