Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] hands " in BNC.
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| 1 | Scarcely daring to breathe , I lined up my telephoto lens , pressed against a tree to steady my hands and shot off several frames . |
| 2 | Following pests and diseases is a section that will interest those who would like to try their hands at raising their own new plants , and perhaps even achieving fame in the process ! |
| 3 | The club raised over £100.00 for the Orsett Hospital Fund and provided the opportunity for many visitors to the fair to try their hands at using a metal detector for the first time . |
| 4 | These pictures by early-20th-century artist , Anna Guthrie , daughter of an Orkney minister , and those by the other Anna – Mrs. Hossack – gave us pleasure as well as profit ; and to Eddie Penham and John Easton , both artists themselves , the opportunity to try their hands at picture-selling . |
| 5 | There is a saying ‘ Who 's going to be the last one to pull their hands out of the fire ? ’ |
| 6 | Best of all , their own old gentleman was there , and he came across to shake their hands . |
| 7 | She quivered at the slide of his hand around the sensitive skin behind her ears , and tried to shake his hands off her hair without success . |
| 8 | He spun round with both arms extended , and started to shake his hands vigorously . |
| 9 | Oh we used to shake our hands , we did n't use to go home complaining . |
| 10 | And you 're less likely to catch your hands then . |
| 11 | Each time , even when the hunger ran swift and compelling through her , each time she had to compel her hands to take hold of her prey 's neck and kill . |
| 12 | After a hair-raising careen out of the park , through the backstreets of Muswell Hill , Bounds Green , and on to the North Circular Road ( only in the broadest interpretation of the term could the Apostate be described as knowing how to drive ) , Rainbow persuadesd Anya to untie her hands and feet , and let her get back behind the wheel . |
| 13 | It was nicely presented , moreover , and since I had n't taken any eating irons with me I am pleased to report that nobody asked me to cup my hands together to take my Cottage Pie a la Toulon ? |
| 14 | She reached up to lock her hands behind his neck , her mouth parting beneath his . |
| 15 | A group of American businessman and their families had been invited to the airport for the president to pump their hands . |
| 16 | Taking care not to scratch his hands on the holding spikes , he rummaged through the weed feeling for that spasm of movement which would indicate a dying fish . |
| 17 | Suragai seemed to inspect his hands . |
| 18 | He shook out its scalpel creases and began to clean his hands . |
| 19 | He took a terribly long time to clean his hands . |
| 20 | Then , he started to replace his hands but Cassie twisted away from him , shaking her head as she did so . |
| 21 | There is clearly an element of dramatic self-consciousness here , just as there is in Duncan 's account of his affecting the symptoms of old age — " he even started to cup his hands at remarks he could hear perfectly well " . |
| 22 | She wears black gloves to cover her hands and I imagine them veined and stiff under the fabric . |
| 23 | Not that she intended to wipe her hands of Suzie . |
| 24 | Children wrestle to free their hands from their parents ; Mummy , please let me go and throw stones at the idiots . |
| 25 | As the dogsbody sixth assistant to George Oke at Fulwell , he performed his chores with a furious zeal , not because he wanted the members to have the shiniest shoes and the best sand-papered hickory shafts but because these jobs were good exercises to strengthen his hands and arms . |
| 26 | This exercise is also designed to strengthen your hands and arms but is more advanced than the last one . |
| 27 | We used to , we used to have a wiper there , you see , a clean wiper on the block used to wipe your hands I used to wash them . |
| 28 | I want to put my hands over my ears , but I 'm too tired . |
| 29 | I am going to put my hands above the slenderly tapering flame of the candle for a moment . |
| 30 | But I 'll not have to reach out too far to put my hands on it . ’ |