Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] hand " in BNC.
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| 1 | with me wrong hand I do n't told you that did n't I , I was well shagged with someone fucking swim left hand |
| 2 | I hide my sticky hand behind me , as if it 's brightly stained . |
| 3 | I worry that it 's coming from my sticky hand and I 'm frightened that the man will smell it . |
| 4 | Blood was spouting from cuts on my right hand , and my left foot ached a bit and felt strange — no more . |
| 5 | Bewildered by the holocaust of events , by death that had suddenly changed a world , he began apologising , first to the policemen : ‘ I do n't know what to say , his best man to die like that … ’ and then to his son : ‘ I 'd give my right hand to have things different , Jack . |
| 6 | Again you just looked at me , and I knew I had to do as you had done , so I stretched out my right hand and touched the bones , which were slightly sticky . |
| 7 | I made a crook of my left elbow on the back of the boat and laid the pole across it , the shorter end in my right hand , the longer end trailing behind in the water . |
| 8 | Cautiously , sweating , with fiery stabs in every inch , I wormed my right hand between my body and the earth , and came to what seemed like a rod between the two . |
| 9 | I always carry the bag on my left shoulder so I can pull out clubs with my right hand , and I was about to pull out the driver when I hesitated and decided to see how the land lay . |
| 10 | When casting , I have the bomb hanging about three feet from the rod-tip ( if you always keep this distance the same you have a better chance of casting consistently ) with my right hand around the butt and reel seat , and the line looped over my index finger . |
| 11 | I hold the rod parallel to the ground over my right shoulder , with the butt pointing at the target , glance at my rod-tip and tackle to make sure everything is free , then look at the target and keep my eye on it while I push with my right hand and pull with my left . |
| 12 | I slide the rod-rest slowly into the sand , making sure it is positioned to that I can sit comfortably with the butt of the rod in my right hand and the tip pointing at the roots . |
| 13 | With the rod in my right hand and the line between butt-ring and reel looped over the middle finger of my left hand I wait impatiently for a bite . |
| 14 | While my right hand spooned up the sweet pulp and hefted my glass of Alsace riesling , my left explored the contours of my neighbour 's inner calf and the hollow behind her knee . |
| 15 | ‘ If I feel the tension building up behind my temples , I hold the crystal tightly in my right hand and I can feel the pain slowly seeping away . ’ |
| 16 | Not much to report this week on the home front , except that I have a sneaking feeling I may have broken a bone in my right hand . |
| 17 | I wear mine on my right hand as well but then I am odd in all sorts of ways . ’ |
| 18 | My right hand went instinctively to my sword , thus to force a way through the crowd and take my rightful place . |
| 19 | My right hand shook as I remembered the sudden fear of seeing the crimson tracer flick up from the ground . |
| 20 | ‘ When that failed I stuffed my right hand down its throat to stop it biting and then smacked it twice between the eyes with my left . ’ |
| 21 | I retrieve my right hand , or what 's left of it , from Ernest R Dickerson 's mighty grip . |
| 22 | I lifted his head gently with my right hand — and felt the hot , sticky blood covering the back of his skull . |
| 23 | ‘ One electric cable was fixed to the small finger of my right hand and the other cable was moved over various parts of my body . |
| 24 | ‘ Just three ribs broken , twenty-eight stitches in my head , and two broken bones in my right hand . |
| 25 | ‘ I struggled and twisted and got my right hand free . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'm pinching the underpinning skin in the fingers of my right hand , and I 'm jostling my balls nervously with my left hand . ’ |
| 27 | When , last March , I began to get pins and needles in my right hand , I put it down to too much gardening . |
| 28 | In my right hand was a small tray , and by tilting it in the breeze I found that I could obtain enough lift to get up to any height I wanted , and was soon soaring into the air , travelling at will . |
| 29 | Cross-references to this appendix are given by italic numbers , ( eg 16 ) From Joseph Conrad , The Secret Sharer On my right hand there were lines of fishing-stakes resembling a mysterious system of half-submerged bamboo fences , incomprehensible in its division of the domain of tropical fishes , and crazy of aspect as if abandoned forever by some nomad tribe of fishermen now gone to the other end of the ocean ; for there was no sign of human habitation as far as the eye could reach ( 1 ) . |
| 30 | " On my right hand " establishes the observer as the point of reference . |