Example sentences of "hold [pron] [noun] in [pos pn] hands " in BNC.
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| 1 | To exhausted to comfort him , Syleyma holds her head in her hands and surveys her dying family . |
| 2 | Keith holds his head in his hands and looks at the floor . |
| 3 | I stop a bit and hold her head in my hands . |
| 4 | I suppose that 's because I hold your life in my hands . |
| 5 | As he neared it , he suddenly stopped , staggered and sat down abruptly on a chair , leaning forward and holding his head in his hands . |
| 6 | He sat holding his head in his hands for half an hour , but after that he stood up and just got on with it . |
| 7 | Ruth sat on the loo and held her head in her hands . |
| 8 | For a moment he held her head in his hands , searching her face with a strange expression in his eyes . |
| 9 | He bent to her again and nibbled her ear , then held her jaw in his hands and delivered a kiss that was heavy and almost insolent . |
| 10 | And he held her future in his hands . |
| 11 | And he held his head in his hands . |
| 12 | Mr Over , a retired electricity executive , held his head in his hands . |
| 13 | He held his head in his hands . |
| 14 | He sat there and held his head in his hands . |
| 15 | Gaughan held his head in his hands after 23 minutes when Shrewsbury defender Dean Spink headed just over his own bar while trying to clear another effort , and the former Sunderland man forced Perks to his knees with a long range right foot shot . |