Example sentences of "[prep] one hand " in BNC.
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| 1 | It will be the work both of one hand and of the other . |
| 2 | You will often see recipients tapping the table with the three middle fingers of one hand while their cup is being filled . |
| 3 | Anchoring himself to a piton , he cut the climbing rope and started to unravel its strands , working with the nearly frozen fingers of one hand . |
| 4 | You can count on the fingers of one hand the times Mr Kinnock has jumped in among the public . |
| 5 | Then the fingers of one hand moved , an arm moved , and the trunk seemed to shift very slightly . |
| 6 | One or two fingers of one hand are inserted into the vagina , while the other hand feels the lower abdomen , and in this way , using both hands , the doctor can determine the outline , shape , and size of the contents of the pelvis . |
| 7 | I can count the number of trout that I have taken from this lovely loch on the fingers of one hand and blank days are the rule , but I keep going back for more . |
| 8 | I can count on the fingers of one hand the days when the weather was pleasant during my ten months there . |
| 9 | I can count on the fingers of one hand all the journalists I have met who are committed to telling the truth about my field as well as they can discover it , No one could organise censorship so effectively in America , so the distortions in the press must reflect countless more or less independent decisions by editors and reporters which lead to the perpetuation of a misleading and intellectually fallacious understanding of a serious scientific subject . |
| 10 | Beat well until the dough comes away from the sides of the bowl , then transfer to a lightly floured surface and knead well by stretching the dough away from you , using the heel of one hand to push it from the centre outwards . |
| 11 | When choosing dowel at any place other than a kite store which would have selected its stock , rotate the spar between thumb and forefinger of one hand while resting the dowel in the other hand and check that the spar is straight . |
| 12 | I balanced the cup and saucer on the palm of one hand and watched as the saucer became thicker and thicker until it was a foot deep , then noticed the same thing happening to the half-moon rug . |
| 13 | There had been 36 seizures nationally in January and he thought the number of arrests could be counted on the fingers of one hand . |
| 14 | Thus in a passage quoted by James , Wundt writes : ‘ If we touch first the back of one hand and then of the other , we remark a qualitative unlikeness of sensation . |
| 15 | She could count on the fingers of one hand the people she actually enjoyed having on the premises ; most of her other visitors she merely tolerated and a few of them had the power to make her feel violated . |
| 16 | Aft of this was what was left of a small radio-room with a man who appeared to be peacefully sleeping leaning forward on folded arms , the fingers of one hand still on a transmitting key . |
| 17 | Thus ‘ pen ’ is the first finger of one hand drawn across the palm of the other , a beckoning with the whole hand or finger ends is ‘ gim me ’ , slapping the thigh is ‘ dog ’ , and an index finger drawn over the back of the hand is ‘ tickle ’ ( Walker 1983 : 355 ) . |
| 18 | If he 's dying , of a coronary , well I ca n't stop him dying , but I can maybe help … the number of people whose lives you save in the course of your career , you can probably count on the fingers of one hand — it 's scientists and public health people that save lives . |
| 19 | After taking account of relationships between the various firms in the list , we 're left with a core number which can almost be counted on the fingers of one hand . |
| 20 | Although the number of cordless power tool battery manufacturers can be counted on the fingers of one hand , there is a vast difference in performance between the two . |
| 21 | The number of people whom they knew personally in Berlin could have been counted on the fingers of one hand . |
| 22 | Having recovered only the partial use of one hand , he set to work and wrote Beneath the Visiting Moon . |
| 23 | She was holding a net curtain to one side with the gold-ringed fingers of one hand , while in the other hand she held to her mouth a long white ebony cigarette holder on which she drew constantly as she watched the visitor enter her neighbour 's house . |
| 24 | The fingers of one hand were tapping frenziedly against the palm of the other , as if all the excitement in his body had to be expressed through the movements of one set of digits . |
| 25 | She assumed her sister was referring to getting into Cambridge , which she herself considered a poisonous , disreputable fantasy , and one unlikely ever to be fulfilled : the number of girls who had achieved Cambridge places from Battersby Girls ' Grammar in the last ten years could be counted on the fingers of one hand . |
| 26 | The dual task technique was first exploited within laterality research by Kinsbourne and Cook ( 1971 ) who asked their subjects to balance a dowel rod with the index finger of one hand whilst simultaneously repeating letters of the alphabet . |
| 27 | These conditions were , firstly , when subjects had to depress each of four Morse keys rapidly in turn with each of the four fingers of one hand and , secondly , when a whole arm movement had to be made to depress each key in turn . |
| 28 | Kinsbourne and Cook ( 1971 ) asked subjects to balance a dowel rod on the index finger of one hand . |
| 29 | These conditions were , firstly , when subjects had to depress each of four Morse keys rapidly in turn with the four fingers of one hand and , secondly , when a whole arm movement had to be made to depress each key in turn . |
| 30 | He chewed and smiled and cuffed a little run of juice off his chin with the heel of one hand . |