Example sentences of "hands and [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Corbett rose , wiped his hands and went back into the priory . |
| 2 | I finished cleaning my mouth and hands and went back to the dead man 's chamber . |
| 3 | Unlike most grown-ups , he was usually ready to stop whatever he was doing to sit down and talk , and Oliver , who had looked forward to a good gossip , was both puzzled and disappointed when his friend stood up , spat on his hands and went back to his digging . |
| 4 | Alina was holding onto the door , because the six steps that she 'd taken to reach it had almost been enough to exhaust her ; Belov dusted off his hands and came over to her now , and he took her by the shoulders and turned her around and steered her back toward the bed that she 'd just left . |
| 5 | Before either of his listeners could reply to these curt instructions , fitzAlan shoved his reins into the other man 's hands and strode off towards the forebuilding without another word . |
| 6 | Gladys Brown clenched her hands and stared down at the bony knuckles . |
| 7 | She paused , then took courage in both hands and walked in with deceptive boldness . |
| 8 | Another runner threw up his hands and walked out in the middle of one afternoon . |
| 9 | John ignored the heat building up under his hands and pressed down with all his weight . |
| 10 | Faced with a national drought that was playing havoc with his own garden and those of his village neighbours , one Richard Bullock took matters into his own hands and ended up in the dock for his pains . |
| 11 | A few pints later , when the Vomits were doing their first encore , Jamie and I were up dancing , jumping up and down , Jamie shouting and clapping his hands and dancing about on my shoulders . |
| 12 | Her shoulders were hunched up high and her lips were pressed together tight and she sat there gripping her mug of tea in both hands and staring down into it as though searching for a way to answer these not-quite-so-innocent questions . |
| 13 | She grabbed her mug of tea , gripping it in both hands and staring down into it with an expression of such misery that one could almost imagine the dead girl 's face reflected in the surface of the liquid . |
| 14 | I slithered from his hands and sat down on the ground and he dragged me up . |
| 15 | These must follow the example of the hands and move back down the board as the wind increases . |
| 16 | I lifted John 's head carefully with both hands and slipped out from beneath it . |
| 17 | He put his hands on her shoulders and kissed her , then held both her hands and smiled down at her as I had not seen him smile since I mentioned her name that night in the subway . |