Example sentences of "your hand " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is a very quick way to get your hand in and learn what you need to practise . |
| 2 | Always be alert for a bad swing or a wing-tip touching the ground on take off and have your hand near the release , ready . |
| 3 | Leonard was a very close observer , and collector , of this scene ; always keeping his hand in with his guitar , writing much of his early poetry to the sound of its music : the emerging Nashville sound , Muddy Waters , Chuck Berry , Big Joe Turner , The Drifters , The Clovers , Guitar Slim and , most of all , Ray Charles , whose first hit , ‘ Baby Let Me Hold Your Hand ’ in 1951 , marked the onset of an astonishing career . |
| 4 | You left the cinema your hand in your pocket clutching a non-existent ‘ rod ’ , you went rat a tat tat Chicago piano machine gun style and did a James Cagney hoodlum staggering along the pavement with your hands to your chest until you collapsed into a doorway mown down by gangsters ' bullets crying for Pat O'Brien or Joan Blondell to take the message to ma . |
| 5 | NOT IN YOUR HAND |
| 6 | Dig down — use a stick , not your hand — for a foot or so and drop in a piece of paper . |
| 7 | It used to be amazing at the end of the week to be paid , to have money in your hand for the work you had done . |
| 8 | Wave your hand and watch the screen . ’ |
| 9 | If you stick your hand in them it 's all prickly cos they got these tiny little leaf things and they prick . |
| 10 | Please hold the sachet in your hand as I tell you how a small handful of granules like these have the power to stop the world 's biggest child killer . |
| 11 | Use your thumbs , fingers and the heels of your hand to stroke and stretch the muscles and tendons in the hands in wrists . |
| 12 | To massage your palm , support the back of your hand with your fingers and make small rotary motions with your thumb pad over one spot at a time . |
| 13 | Using pressure from your thumb pad , squeeze the web of your hand with thumb and index finger , making rotary movements on one spot at a time . |
| 14 | ‘ How are you , sir ? ’ they say as they compress your hand for good measure . |
| 15 | Use a combination of rolling with a pin and pressing with the heel of your hand to make the circle . |
| 16 | Worse , the comparison gives the back of your hand to a country whose firm support of the principles you voice comes at a cost of real economic suffering and terrible danger . |
| 17 | ‘ Let me see your hand , ’ says Denice , when she finally stopped laughing . |
| 18 | So easy to relax and forget your troubles when you had a glass of their malt in your hand … . |
| 19 | Ooh , your hand , it ai n't half skinny . |
| 20 | When you touched it with the edge of your hand , your skin felt as though it had become attached so that you were in danger of becoming a part of Mrs Parvis 's table for ever . |
| 21 | Or the pole that keeps its compass in your hand |
| 22 | Little boy , little boy , take your hand from that tree ! |
| 23 | ‘ What 's up with your hand ? |
| 24 | Then another command : ‘ Do not lay your hand on the lad or do anything to him ; for now I know that you fear God , seeing you have not withheld your son , your only son , from me . ’ |
| 25 | Before ever the action begins he knows and tells Joshua what the outcome will be : ‘ See , I have given into your hand Jericho , with its king and mighty men of valour . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Put your hand in . ’ |
| 27 | Let her sniff your hand . ’ |
| 28 | Stand in the middle of the border , tip the seeds on to the palm of your hand and throw them up in the air as high as you possibly can . |
| 29 | Kindly go through the mail that remains in your hand . ’ |
| 30 | When the White House lawyer first tried to debrief Reagan on what he knew of the affair , the president was said to have told him stories of Hollywood ; when journalists badgered him about the deals he had half-wittingly struck with Israel and Iran in August 1985 , he replied amiably : ‘ Everybody that can remember what they were doing on August 8th 1985 , raise your hand . ’ |