Example sentences of "hand [conj] [vb base] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The best thing get your flat hand and whack it on his back really hard . |
| 2 | A tall and smartly dressed Englishwoman took my hand and put me in a chauffeur-driven car and , suddenly , after three months of confinement behind barbed-wire fences , we were driving away , through the barrier and down the lanes thick and bright with the leaves and flowers of spring . |
| 3 | She knew how to win that competition , too : when he reached through to her the fourth or fifth time , she did what she had often dreamt of doing before : kneeling up against the wall , she guided his hand and put it to her breast . |
| 4 | He picked up her hand and put it on his cock ; then placed his own hand over hers and made her squeeze ; it was hot , even under the rough material of his trousers , and rolled about clumsily over the squidgier sack of his balls ; but he was panting , making stirring motions with his knees against her legs , working with his free hand at his waistband , until he freed himself from his flies and had wrapped her hand around his naked cock ; he spat on his hand and worked the spittle onto the skin , and when he made her hold him again , she felt the wetness on her fingers , and drying fast as he pumped himself up and down over her hand , pinning her hand under his . |
| 5 | He took a sheet of Gordon 's notepaper and typed a short note to Alan Bleath , thanking him for his recent contribution to the stimulating seminar on lenses of a high refractive index , signed this with a fair approximation of Gordon 's hand and put it in one of the ‘ Gordon Beamish : See ? ’ envelopes , addressed to Alan Bleath , 329 Carradine Road , Mitcham . |
| 6 | Evelyn snatched the packet from his hand and put it in the pocket of her apron . |
| 7 | I reached out with my free hand and put it in his . |
| 8 | He stayed beside the car as she crossed the narrow pavement , but the shadowed gaze followed her as she shakily climbed the steps to the door of the house , slid her key into the lock with a trembling hand and let herself into the hallway . |
| 9 | She looked up into his face , fighting back the urge to reach out her hand and stop him from going . |
| 10 | Luke smiled again , reaching across the few inches of space Fran had managed to leave between them to catch her hand and raise it to his lips as he pressed a lovingly tender kiss to her fingertips . |
| 11 | When his unlucky opponent approached , the fighter would grab the scabbard with his right hand and raise it in the air as if it were the knife . |
| 12 | He felt a sudden piercing need to reach out , capture her hand and pull her into his arms . |
| 13 | From the clew first position release your back hand and place it on the mast below the boom . |
| 14 | Maria laughed , a lovely liquid sound , but it required an effort of will to lift her hand and place it in his outstretched one , and resentment surged as his fingers closed round it briefly and were removed . |
| 15 | Holding out her hand , her smile wide , she said , ‘ It 's good to see you home again , Martin , ’ and his answer was to take her hand and kiss her on the cheek and say , ‘ It 's good to be home , Aunt . |
| 16 | Shifting her chair position slightly , she saw Sir Thomas 's face pale with emotion , she saw him pick up Angelina 's hand and kiss it with devotion . |
| 17 | There are even some ( not you , of course ! ) who have been known to lick the first finger of the right hand and dip it into the bottom of the packet , so that those tiny remaining crumbs of crisp can be finished off . |
| 18 | Okay , so there you are you see , you 're , you 're a first aider and you come up to the person and you hold it the way you did last time and you think ah , now that 's the wrong way round of course , there 's my elbow point , there 's my injured elbow , so I have to be that way round , mm , so you turn it round the other way , right , your elbow shape goes to the injured elbow and your long line goes straight up and down the line of the body , you arrange it so that you only just covering the forearm there , with just enough above the hand to tie your reef knot that would be too little and that would be too much just enough above the hands to tie your reef knot , the first thing you do is to tuck nice , big bit of material right under the hand and anchor it into position , just keep that resting there and all the rest of this goes under the arm up between the shoulder blades there and you tie your first half of the reef knot just above the fingers in the hollow of the neck here , now that 's important because round the back here if you press on that bit of muscle there , there 's a big band of muscle , if you 've got a knot on that it gives a great deal of discomfort very quickly so you want to get the knots round in the hollow here that does n't hurt your casualty , there , draw it up half the knot , is that tight enough ? |
| 19 | Is he merely to proffer his hand and lead her into a stately minuet ? |
| 20 | I had nobody to take my hand and lead me through the obstacles . |
| 21 | And , as they 're all around us , in everything from Carter 's Glitter Band singalongs to The Orb 's concept albums — and ‘ Tubular Bells II ’ ! — let DAVID QUANTICK , ANDREW COLLINS and DANNY KELLY take you by the hand and lead you through The Decade That Said ‘ Nice One Cyril ’ — and got away with it ! |
| 22 | He rushed up to her as she got out of the Roller , took her right hand and thrust it into his beard . |