Example sentences of "was [verb] [pron] hand " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was when I was resting my hand on her flank to steady her that I noticed the little swelling under the skin . |
| 2 | He was still cursing Midnight with great beery breaths , but had succeeded in finding her waist and was inching his hand up towards her breast . |
| 3 | Umberto was stroking her hand . |
| 4 | ‘ It all began before I was born , ’ she said , unaware that she was twisting her hands tightly together in her lap . |
| 5 | It 'll be here in minutes , ’ Belinda saw that Faye had begun crying quietly , and that Bill was pressing her hand wordlessly between his two trembling ones . |
| 6 | Jennifer was pressing her hands hard against her face , and sobbing silently . |
| 7 | She could see her grandfather was keeping his hands to himself , standing quiet and still , as if he wanted to make the least contact possible with the room . |
| 8 | ‘ The worst was keeping my hands from my dagger and my mouth shut . |
| 9 | Without conscious thought she found she was pushing her hands inside his shirt , fumbling for the buttons in a frenzy of haste which made him smile against her lips . |
| 10 | Mafouz was flexing his hands and making crouching movements as the ball started its slow descent . |
| 11 | He was cleaning his hands with petrol . |
| 12 | One of mankind 's first artistic gestures was to cover his hand with charcoal and press it on to a cave wall : ‘ I , man , was here ! ’ |
| 13 | I barely had time to notice that Masha was wearing Circassian trousers before she was in my arms , kissing my cheeks ; and Surkov was pumping my hand warmly . |
| 14 | They rushed out into Regent 's Park — out of earshot — and Simon told her , yes of course he was forcing her hand , it was blackmail : he did love her so , she was the right one for him and he 'd take her tomorrow on five hundred pounds , if someone would lend them to him , and he did rather fancy himself as a married man at twenty-one . |
| 15 | Her disappointment was so acute she was wringing her hands . |
| 16 | Her face was pale and she was wringing her hands in agitation . |
| 17 | She was wringing her hands , pulling at her lovely mane of hair . |
| 18 | I was splitting my hand up in the end cos they were gone . |
| 19 | I saw you leaning together very intimately yesterday afternoon ; he was kissing your hand . ’ |
| 20 | She was smearing her hands with iron oxide , to simulate blood . |
| 21 | His wife had finished gathering the curd and was wiping her hands on her apron . |
| 22 | He was wiping his hands on his shirt . |
| 23 | Alexandra was holding her hands so tightly , the one gripping the other , that she could feel bone grind on bone . |
| 24 | She was standing in front of him and when , conventionally , she held out her hand towards him , saying , ‘ Goodbye , then , ’ he hesitated for a moment ; then his arm jerked forward and he was holding her hand . |
| 25 | She had turned and was holding her hand out towards the child . |
| 26 | He was holding her hand and staring down at her with an extraordinary expression on his face that she had never seen before . |
| 27 | Lucenzo had disappeared for a moment , and she was n't too happy about the way the Frenchman was holding her hand until she realised he was harmless . |
| 28 | And the dream took her into hospital where the nice young man was lying in bed with his head bandaged and she was holding his hand ; and the dream brought a little comfort to the events of a night that was to be the turning point in her life . |
| 29 | Tucker was holding his hand towards a still presence and a flare of white at the back of the room near the kitchen area . |
| 30 | He had n't wanted to , but since his father was holding his hand it was all right . |